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Right-wing media are inciting violence against transgenders.

Hate crimes against transgender people have been rising in both the United States and the U.K., and 2017 saw the first federal conviction of a hate crime against a transgender person in the U.S. Meanwhile, members of extreme anti-LGBTQ groups have…

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Believe it or not, LGBT rights might improve in 2019.

It may be hard to believe, given the Trump administration’s history on the matter and the threats that still loom large in more conservative states, but 2019 could be a landmark year for LGBT rights. Thanks in part to the results of…

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Looking ahead: The LGBT community and the Supreme Court.

The coming year could be a momentous one for LGBTQ rights at the Supreme Court, and possibly a dangerous one, given the court’s new conservative majority. The justices have yet to say which cases they’ll take, but right-wing forces…

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Good news: Conversion therapies CAN cure gay people…of religion!

Teddy Prout, above, Director of Community Services for Humanists UK, claims that faith-based therapies aimed ‘curing’ homosexuality can result in people turning their back on religion. Speaking here about research currently being conducted into what Christian Concern calls “sexual orientation change efforts”…

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Justice Kennedy delivered 2018’s most preventable disaster.

In 2015, the year of the Obergefell marriage equality ruling, I published a book, It’s Not Over, warning against the temptation of “victory blindness” and anticipating, among other potential dangers, that the fortunes of LGBTQ people and other threatened minorities could…