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Millions in tax dollars channeled to anti-LGBT religious schools.

A state-funded voucher program in Florida that helps students attend private schools sent $129 million to schools with anti-LGBTQ policies last year alone, an Orlando Sentinel investigation has found. The money went to pay tuition for 20,800 students at 156 private Christian schools with…

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Two trans women beat the snot out of men harassing them.

After being harassed by men in a restaurant, two transgender women decided they had dealt with enough and took matters into their own hands. Those hands formed fists after the men continued to denigrate the women, leaving the two harassers bloody and dazed…

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Hate preachers threatened to slaughter gay people.

Followers of a religious sect were filmed shouting homophobic slurs on the streets of London. Men identified as part of the fringe Church of Yahawashi, an offshoot of the Hebrew Black Israelites, uploaded footage of their preaching in Dalston, east London…

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Gay asylum seekers asked if they could play it straight.

Gay asylum seekers seeking protection in Australia were asked by government officials if they could pretend to be straight to avoid persecution in their home countries. The questioning by Australian immigration officers is revealed in a 2018 internal review of 21 interviews with…