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Teachers in Florida are quitting in droves because of hate laws

“Do you have a dog?” “Who’s your boyfriend?” “Are you married?” Anita Carson fielded questions from students about her personal life each year she taught for Polk County Public Schools in Florida, giving them a short presentation about her friends…

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Pride flag flies above Germany’s parliament for the first time

Germany’s federal parliament, also known as the Bundestag, raised the rainbow flag for the first time on Saturday as the city held a parade and other events celebrating the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. The flag, with its…

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Neo-Nazis arrested for disrupting a drag queen story hour

The neo-Nazi leader of a white supremacist group and two others were arrested Saturday afternoon in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston as they marched and chanted in an effort to disrupt a drag queen story hour event at the…