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Netflix got dumped by HRC’s Corporate Equality Index

For the first time in five years, Netflix was excluded from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. The CEI’s “Best Places to Work” list includes companies that are safe havens for queer employees, a distinction they didn’t give to…

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LGBT advocates push for Black LGBT woman SCOTUS appointment

At least two major LGBTq organizations have urged President Joe Biden to appoint a Black LGBTQ+ or same-gender-loving woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who recently announced his retirement. LGBTQ Victory Institute, which advocates for…

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GOP lawmaker admits religious exemptions = LGBT discrimination

A Republican lawmaker admitted in public that the entire point of his “religious freedom” is to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people. For years, LGBTQ advocates have argued that religious exemptions – either passed through legislation or created in court decisions…

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Barry Manilow just gave a huge middle finger to Spotify

Following demands by Neil Young that Spotify remove his music in protest of podcast host Joe Rogan using the platform to spread of COVID-19 disinformation, another legendenary the singer has followed suit. Barry Manilow, who has sold more than 85 million…

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Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

Few people have been hit harder during the COVID-19 pandemic than those who are immunocompromised — including people whose immune systems have been ravaged by HIV/AIDS. But that dark chapter of medical history may soon be drawing to a close…