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Two Catholic high school teachers forced out for being gay.

A revealing, unsettling, puzzling announcement came from Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien on the eve of a three-day weekend honoring two American presidents who helped define, redefine and sustain our freedoms. It read: “Two teachers, Paul Danforth and Michelle Beatty, have…

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ICE going against federal ruling holding gay asylum-seeker.

Under the Trump Administration, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has enjoyed the liberty to ignore rules and laws as they please, more than ever in its 16-year history. In their latest blatant disregard for American legal procedure, it has been…

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Polish court halts distribution of ‘LGBT-Free Zone’ stickers.

A Warsaw court issued an injunction to halt the distribution of “LGBT-free zone” stickers by a newspaper sympathetic to the conservative government, Gazeta Wyborcza reported, citing the lawyer of the plaintiff. The decision came a day after the Gazeta Polska weekly…

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Pride-goer told ‘I’ll beat the gay out of you’.

This last Friday during Pride weekend in Barcelona, Spain, a man at a McDonald’s threatened to “beat the gay out of” a gay man for wearing “disrespectful” cut-off jean shorts and a tight neon yellow tank top in public…