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Florida school boards are writing disturbing anti-LGBT policies

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the Don’t Say Gay law, went into effect on July 1 and the state’s public school districts have already started rolling out questionable policies. Earlier this year, Florida’s House of Representatives passed…

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How the Big Peach became the LGBT capital of the South

The story of Atlanta becoming the “LGBTQ+ capital of the South” doesn’t start with gay couples partying at their marriage reception in 2015. The story doesn’t even start in a Greenwich Village bar in 1969. No. This story starts in…

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Out gay candidate’s campaign sign defaced with antigay slur

Justice Horn, a gay Democratic political candidate running for the Jackson County Legislature of Missouri, is speaking out after an unknown vandal defaced one of his campaign banners in Kansas City with the anti-gay slur “f**.” “I’ll admit, this one…

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Brittney Griner pleads to Biden to help secure release

Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner over the weekend appealed directly to President Joe Biden to help secure her release. The Washington Post reported the White House received Griner’s letter on Monday. “As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone…

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California ends loitering for prostitution law

Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act, authored by Out state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)’s was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday.  “As trans people are being criminalized across the country, Governor Gavin Newsom has once again shown that California stands with the LGBTQ community…