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US security alert warns Americans overseas of potential attacks on LGBTQ events
The State Department renewed a global security warning Friday for Americans overseas, adding to it that LGBTQ people and events in particular face an “increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence.”
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Mass. celebrates 20 years of marriage equality
It’s been 20 years since Massachusetts became a beacon of hope for the LGBTQ+ community across the nation. Cities across the commonwealth celebrated the trailblazing moment that changed how same-sex couples are viewed under the law. “We’re here in this place, the Cambridge City Hall, holding onto a vision that, in minutes, will be a promise fulfilled,” said Rev....
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FBI warns of threats to LGBTQ Pride Month events in the US
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said foreign terrorist organizations or their supporters are potentially targeting LGBTQ-related events, including Pride Month.
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Biden's new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but transgender sports rule still on hold
The Title IX provisions promise to dismantle rules created by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who added new safeguards for students accused of sexual misconduct. Biden’s policy does not have any mention of transgender athletes.
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Lawmakers in Thailand approve bill to legalize same-sex marriage
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.
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Support for same-sex marriage and LGBTQ protections dipped in 2023, survey shows
The share of U.S. adults who support same-sex marriage and laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination has dipped in the last year, a survey has found, according to NBC News.
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Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents, even with no specific law
Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home.
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Nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ, national survey finds
More than 1 in 4 Gen Z adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, dwarfing the percentages of LGBTQ Americans in older age groups, a new survey has found.
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Transgender people can be baptized Catholic and serve as godparents, Vatican says
The document was signed Oct. 21 by Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
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Mass. priest under fire for homily on trans community, false claims that kids identify as cats
A Catholic reverend in Dracut, Massachusetts, drew a lot of reaction for his Sunday homily on transgender people. “We don’t make any judgment calls on the people in transition, we treat people with dignity and respect,” Rev. Kevin Sepe of St. Francis Assisi of Dracut said Sunday. Sepe went on to say he did not support people who are...
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Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christian prayer and the Bible back in schools
Some Christian pastors and politicians argue that school prayer would prevent children from identifying as transgender. LGBTQ rights advocates are fighting back.
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Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license
A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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‘Really proud moment': Red Cross now accepts blood from gay and bisexual men
Massachusetts’ public health commissioner was able to donate blood for the first time Tuesday, celebrating new rules that open blood donation to gay and bisexual men. DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein was joined by his friend Rochelle Walensky, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the Red Cross Donation Center in Dedham. The pair spent years fighting…
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Protesters object to Worcester Catholic schools' restrictive new LGBTQ+ policy
Dozens of people took part in a protest Wednesday against a new policy at Catholic schools in Worcester, Massachusetts, prohibiting LGBTQ+ students from expressing themselves. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester’s new policy goes into effect at the start of the new school year. It requires students “to conduct themselves at school in a manner consistent with their biological...
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California business owner, mother of 9 killed after confrontation over Pride flag in front of her shop
Authorities say a California store owner has been fatally shot after a dispute over a LGBTQ Pride flag outside her business.
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Worcester's diocese announces restrictive LGBTQ+ policy in Catholic schools
A new policy at Catholic schools in Worcester, Massachusetts, will prohibit LGBTQ+ students from expressing themselves. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester’s new policy goes into effect at the start of the new school year. The policy requires students “to conduct themselves at school in a manner consistent with their biological sex.” Students also “may not advocate, celebrate, or...
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Georgia panel rejects recommendation to fire teacher for reading book on gender fluidity to 5th graders
The panel reached a decision after a two-day hearing last week about whether Rinderle should be fired for reading the picture book “My Shadow is Purple” by Scott Stuart.
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Wendy Guevara becomes the first trans woman to win a Mexican reality TV series
Guevara won “La casa de los famosos México” with more than 18 million fan votes, marking a historic moment in Mexican reality TV.
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Red Cross now allowing more gay and bisexual men to donate blood following FDA guidelines
The updated guidelines do away with a requirement that men who have sex with men abstain from sex for three months prior to giving blood.
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3 people say they were tricked into appearing in anti-trans film ‘What Is a Woman?'
Three people who appeared in the viral documentary “What Is a Woman?” told NBC News that the producers misrepresented how it would portray transgender topics.