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Trump to roll out red carpet for Poland’s homophobic president.

After months of isolation, Donald Trump is reopening the White House to foreign visitors – and his first guest of honour is Poland’s homophobic president, Andrzej Duda. Trump’s last visit from a foreign leader was that of Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar…

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Study: 91 Percent of LGBT teens are bullied in Trump’s America.

Nearly every LGBTQ+ teenager in the United States has been bullied, according to new research. A study published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports that 91 percent of adolescents in this demographic was the target of at least…

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Egyptian activist arrested for raising Pride flag has died.

An LGBTQ rights activist from Egypt who was arrested for raising a rainbow flag during a 2017 concert died by suicide on Sunday. Al-Jazeera reports Sara Hegazy, 30, died at her home in Canada. Egyptian authorities in September 2017 arrested Hegazy after she…

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What’s the next battle for LGBT rights at the Supreme Court?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBTQ rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over the scope of religious-rights exemptions to certain federal laws that could dilute the landmark decision’s impact. The justices ruled 6-3 on…