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Political candidates face uptick in anti-LGBT attack ads.

State Rep. Brianna Titone, who made history in 2018 when she became the first transgender lawmaker in Colorado, is now running for her second term. But while her platform focuses on the bread-and-butter issues of transportation, education and jobs, her opponents…

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University caves to Trump and DeVos on trans discrimination.

New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce University has agreed to abolish its trans-inclusive policy for athletics, after pressure from the Trump administration and anti-LGBT+ activists. The university agreed to ditch its trans inclusion policy under an agreement on Saturday (October 17) to head…

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Pompeo spoke to an anti-LGBT group and his staff was outraged.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is consistently among the most Trump-like of the impeached president’s corrupt, trollish officials—and he continued to cement that status after reportedly ignoring internal protests from his own department employees in order to address a…