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Students mock basketball player with bigoted Grindr taunts.

Monmouth University in the United States has launched an investigation after students held up a sign saying “stick to Grindr” along with images from his dating profiles during a basketball game. The incident took place during a basketball match between…

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US agency seeks to rescind LGBT worker protections.

The Trump administration is trying to rescind protections for LGBTQ workers at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that have been in place since 2002, prompting outrage from the NLRB Professional Association, an organization that represents NLRB workers…

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Canada on the brink of banning conversion therapy nationwide.

Canada is considering legislation to restrict conversion therapy nationally. David Lametti, the nation’s justice minister, and Bardish Chagger, the minister of diversity and youth, introduced a bill to that effect Monday afternoon, CTV News reports. Lametti called the proposal the…

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HIV medication was just used to cure coronavirus.

A drug commonly used to manage HIV was successfully used to treat a man with coronavirus. The Spanish newspaper El País reports that Miguel Ángel Benítez, 62, was successfully treated for coronavirus at a hospital in Seville with lopinavir/ritonavir (marketed as…

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US House candidate compares gays to pedophiles.

A Republican author and former reality show star pardoned by President Donald Trump compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles as she qualified to run for a U.S. House seat in Atlanta. On Friday, Angela Stanton-King tweeted an image of a rainbow-colored…