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Homophobic football chants finally set to be outlawed.

The British government is finally moving to make homophobic football chants illegal as lawmakers admitted to their own “slow progress” on the matter. Squashing homophobia has long been left for individual football clubs and stadium organisers to handle, being that…

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White nationalist group marches yelling ‘F*** the Gays!’

Approximately 15 armed members of the National Socialist Movement, a right-wing white nationalist group better known as Neo-Nazis, rallied in a public park in Williamsport, Pa., this past weekend and yelling racist and homophobic slurs. The NSM members, following a…

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US finally sanctions Chechnya’s leader after ‘gay purge.’

The U.S. State Department has sanctioned Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, following a fact-finding mission into “horrific reports of abuses against LGBTI persons.” In a Monday press statement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the department has “extensive…

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Trans educator named Michigan Teacher of the Year.

Owen Bondono, a teacher in Oak Park, Mich., who is queer and transgender, has been named Michigan Teacher of the Year. “My goal is to always make sure students, whether they are marginalized because of their race, their ethnicity or…

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45’s adviser shares support for horrific conversion therapy.

Donald Trump legal advisor Jenna Ellis is coming under fire for retweeting an article that defends traumatising and harmful conversion therapy for LGBT+ people. Ellis – who previously faced backlash for claiming that HIV and AIDS is God’s punishment for homosexuality…