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History-making Trans ‘Jeopardy!’ champ robbed at gunpoint

“Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, who became the first trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions in November, was robbed at gunpoint over the New Year’s weekend in her home city of Oakland.  Schneider, the show’s highest-earning woman…

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White House seeks more LGBT safeguards in ACA health plans

Health insurance plans offered through the Affordable Care Act that exclude coverage of gender-affirming treatment for transgender people are discriminatory, the Department of Health and Human Services said in an annual policy report scheduled for release this week…

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Students agree to de-gay GSA after parents attack teacher

Students at Lakeland Preparatory School in Tennessee have reportedly withdrawn their request to form a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at their school after conservative parents rabidly attacked them and a supportive faculty member. The parents claimed that even the presence…

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Was #45 really trying to decriminalize homosexuality?

Emails from the State Department — obtained by the Washington Blade from a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act — reveal the Trump administration had at least laid the preliminary groundwork for a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality to the…

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Chasten Buttigieg calls out homophobe over twins’ Xmas photo

Over the holidays, the Buttigieg family posted multiple photos of their twins. First, for Christmas Pete and Chasten Buttigieg posted photos of themselves with Joseph August and Penelope Rose by the Christmas tree. They were spending the holiday with Chasten’s…

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All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned in UK

Gay and bisexual men previously convicted under UK’s historical anti-gay laws can now have charges such as solicitation pardoned due to a newly expanded scheme. The government’s agreement to amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will help expunge…