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Northern Ireland is just too busy to ban conversion therapy.

The Northern Ireland Department of Health has said it does not have time to ban conversion therapy because it is too busy dealing with COVID-19. The harmful practice — where efforts are made to change a person’s sexual or gender identity…

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Here are the best US colleges for LGBT students in 2020.

According to a study conducted by Campus Pride, about 23% of LGBTQ+ faculty members and students were significantly more likely to experience harassment than their heterosexual peers. In addition, LGBT students and faculty members were significantly less likely to feel very…

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John Lewis saw in gay rights a movement like civil rights.

John Lewis’s fight for racial equality made him an icon in the 1960s, but the Atlanta Democratic congressman also stood at the forefront of another civil rights movement decades later. Lewis supported same-sex marriage in the early 2000s, years before…