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Polish police taught being LGBT is just like a drug addiction

Poland’s police commander-in-chief has been asked to explain why a new textbook for police officers lists LGBT+ people under “social pathologies”. The textbook, Social Pathologies – Selected Issues, was recently published by a police training centre in Legionowo. It describes the…

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US bans discrimination against LGBT people in healthcare

The Biden administration has reversed a Trump-era policy that allowed healthcare providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people if they claimed a religious exemption. The move will reinstate Obamacare guidance and expand them to include the recent Supreme Court ruling that…

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The Queen’s Speech: UK to ban LGBT conversion therapy

Britain will move to ban conversion therapy and provide more support to those in the LGBT community who have undergone the treatment, as part of its post-pandemic government agenda. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said measures would be brought forward…

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NY is doing what the feds won’t: giving benefits to gay vets

Gay and lesbian military members have been able to serve openly since 2011, when Congress repealed the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But for some who were expelled for being gay before the repeal, their less-than-honorable discharge status means they…

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Evangelical Lutheran Church elects first transgender bishop

The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer, the first out transgender pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is now the denomination’s first out trans bishop. Rohrer, who currently serves a church in San Francisco, was elected Saturday to a six-year…