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Court’s ruling raises serious worries on same-sex marriage.

On Thanksgiving eve, barely a month after her confirmation, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered on President Donald Trump’s promise to evangelical Christians to tilt the Constitution’s scales in favor of religion.With Chief Justice John Roberts now relegated…

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Calls for an inclusive ‘Progress Pride’ crosswalk in London.

A Liberal Democrat councillor is calling for London’s first rainbow pedestrian crossing in Progress Pride colours to honour trans, HIV-positive people and people of colour. Councillor Victor Chamberlain’s borough of Southwark is home to one of the largest and most…

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California is named after a Black lesbian queen.

Unbeknownst to most people, the state of California was named after Calafia, a fictional Black queen who ruled over a mythic all-female island of Black women just off the coast of Asia. She used an army of flying Griffins to…