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How LGBT victims were erased from Holocaust history

“We saw barracks surrounded by a double circle of high fences… A torrent of blows awaited us. We were instantly overcome with terror.” With these words in his 1994 memoir, Pierre Seel—one of the few gay Holocaust survivors to publicly…

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Corporate leaders decry anti-LGBT legislative moves in US

Top executives from four of the largest food companies came together to condemn the growing number of anti-LGBTQ bills under consideration in U.S. state legislatures, including those that target transgender people and particularly children.  In an open letter published Wednesday in USA Today…

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Failed GOP candidate’s callous meltdown over trans daughter

A failed GOP candidate, previously pardoned by President Donald Trump, was suspended from Twitter yesterday after threatening violence against a trans woman. Angela Stanton-King stood as a congressional candidate in 2020 in Georgia. She ran as a Republican for Georgia’s 5th…

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With veto override, AR is now the worst state for trans kids

The Arkansas House and Senate overrode Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of House Bill 1570 Tuesday. The bill is an anti-transgender law aimed at denying medically-necessary, gender-affirming services to transgender youth. This is the first bill of its kind to become law…

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Politician resigns after suggesting gays be sent to an island

The upstate New York politician who said gay people should be sent to an island, where they’ll die out, has resigned from the Albany County Legislature. George Langdon IV, a Republican, resigned Monday and issued a second statement of apology…