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Colorado’s gay gov signs abortion & trans healthcare protections

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) signed a trio of healthcare bills into law Friday that will protect the reproductive rights of women and preserve gender-affirming care in the state as Republicans in surrounding states have taken action to severely limit those rights…

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Man sentenced for anti-LGBT death threats to publisher

A man who threatened dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, Inc. because of its revised definitions relating to gender was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday. Jeremy Hanson, a 35-year-old from California, pled guilty last year to interstate transmission in connection…

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It is now 50 years since gay people were ‘cured’

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s removal of homosexuality from its Diagnostic Manual in 1973. The decision, and the reasoning behind it, made for was a culture-changing event. It led to an important shift…

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SCOTUS temporarily halts abortion pill restrictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily suspended orders from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that would have restricted the nationwide sale and distribution of…