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Canada’s memorial to LGBTs purged from gov’t jobs announced.

Canada just approved a site for a $5.6 million memorial commemorating its government’s nearly five-decades-long purge of thousands of LGBTQ people from military and government jobs. The memorial will be set in Ottawa on a “gently sloping green” with views of…

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Coronavirus is dealing a death blow to LGBT nightspots.

Gay bars around the world were already closing up before the pandemic began. But now that COVID-19 has shut down queer nightspots internationally, coronavirus could strike a deadly blow to renowned LGBTQ bars in the U.S. and abroad.

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Hershey’s CEO publicly smacked down an anti-LGBT activist.

During last week’s virtual annual shareholder meeting of the Hershey Company, the food products conglomerate best known for its chocolate, an anti-LGBTQ activist asked the company’s CEO whether she would stop the company’s funding of the Human Rights Campaign…

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Anti-LGBT hate crimes soar by more than a third in France.

Homophobic attacks and insults in France rose by 36 percent last year, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Saturday, prompting the government to talk of an “anchoring” of homophobia in the country.ADVERTISING The leap comes after 2018 was described as a “black” year by associations with an unequalled level…

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A third European country has banned conversion therapy.

Just weeks after Germany issued a nationwide ban on gay ‘conversion’ therapy for minors, Albania has followed suit and issued its own ban. The so-called therapy, which has been discredited by the NHS and the World Psychiatric Association, refers to…

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Christian group upset that PBS is pushing the ‘homosexual agenda.’

A right-wing Christian fundamentalist group launched Friday (May 15) an attack against the Public Broadcast Station (PBS) for “promoting homosexuality” with its Pride month content. In other, less homophobic terms, PBS are airing a series of shows on Pride Month titled…