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GOP senator calls childless lesbian educator ‘a joke’

A lesbian educator had harsh words for a Republican senator who said that she doesn’t know anything about teaching because she never gave birth. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was on Fox News yesterday, talking about how Randi Weingarten – the out…

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Election day produces many LGBT firsts around the nation

State and local elections Tuesday yielded some notable LGBTQ+ firsts and some important reelections. Detroit elected its first out LGBTQ+ City Council member. Gabriela Santiago-Romero, a queer woman who grew up in the city after immigrating from Mexico, was elected from…

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Anti-LGBT Republicans sweep all three statewide races in VA

The LGBTQ community in Virginia will likely spend the next four years playing defense to prevent lawmakers from rolling back some of the progress the community made over the past two years, after  On Tuesday, the three Republican statewide candidates…

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The Taliban has a sinister ‘kill list’ for LGBT Afghans

The Taliban has compiled “a kill list” of LGBT+ Afghans, according to the executive director of a charity helping queer people flee the country. Human rights groups have been expressing significant concern for Afghanistan’s embattled LGBT+ community ever since the…