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If Roe falls, same-sex marriage could be next.

In the past several weeks, Republicans in Alabama, Missouri, and Georgia have pushed through a series of horrifying bills that effectively ban abortion and criminalize the procedure, a bald attempt to trigger a legal challenge with the hope of eroding…

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It’s 2019 & politicians still equate same-sex marriage to pedophilia.

Back before the U.S. legalized marriage equality in 2015, conservative politicians would warn that it would lead to pedophilia and man-on-dog marriage (right, Rick Santorum?). Of course, these hateful predictions never materialized. But even though American conservatives have mostly stopped doomsaying…

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This is what Americans really think about same-sex marriage.

In Pew Research Center polling in 2004, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a margin of 60% to 31%. Support for same-sex marriage has steadily grown over the past 15 years. And today, support for same-sex marriage remains near its highest point since…

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The ‘hidden epidemic’ of LGBT sexual harassment at work.

Nearly seven in 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) people have been sexually harassed at work, but many feel unable to tell their employer due to a fear of being “outed” to colleagues, research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC)…

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Buttigieg says Trump is ‘paying lip service’ to LGBT rights.

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg fired back at President Donald Trump’s recent comment about being “absolutely fine” with the mayor’s gay marriage, sarcastically saying “that’s nice” while pointing out the administration’s poor record on LGBT citizens. Buttigieg was on the campaign trail in…