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States refuse to collect LGBT data on COVID-19 patients.

Amid the coronavirus crisis, state health officials responsible for gathering data on COVID-19 are declining to collect and report whether or not patients identify as LGBTQ — a practice that angers LGBTQ advocates who say those answers could yield important information…

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Trump blames rise in anti-LGBT hate groups on the ‘radical left.’

The Trump White House has flatly rejected criticism over its ties to anti-LGBT hate groups. A report from anti-extremism watchdog Southern Poverty Law Center revealed a “sharp expansion” in the number of anti-LGBT hate groups operating across the US – an increase from…

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Pride organizations announce a virtual ‘Global Pride’ in June.

A virtual global Pride celebration is scheduled to take place on June 27. InterPride and the European Pride Organizers Association in a press release issued on Wednesday said they are working with Pride organizations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and…

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A leader in the global fight against HIV/AIDS has died of COVID 19.

Professor Gita Ramjee, a highly acclaimed scientist who dedicated her life to fighting and preventing HIV, has sadly died of coronavirus. Ramjee, 64, was a South African researcher internationally renowned for her work expanding disadvantaged women’s access to HIV treatment…

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Viciously anti-LGBT group runs Central Park tent hospital.

Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian group that regularly takes advantage of humanitarian crises to spread their far-right agenda, has been revealed as the charity behind a tent hospital that has been erected in New York City’s Central Park…