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NATIONAL Trans woman killed, Tenn. law, S. Carolina coach, Evan Low, Idaho...
NBCUniversal News Group Executive Vice President Yvette Miley. LinkedIn photo Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. Official portrait Twenty-four-year-old Latina trans woman and makeup artist Meraxes Medina was...
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NATIONAL Ohio law blocked, Trevor Project, Rev. Troy Perry, ICE suit, Elon Musk
Michael Resnick. LinkedIn photo Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. Official photo In Ohio, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Holbrook temporarily blocked a Republican-backed state law banning...
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NATIONAL Montana suit, equality campaign, Michigan St. incident, hacker group
Malcolm Kenyatta. Photo courtesy of Kenyatta A class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Montana is challenging that state's policies restricting transgender people from updating the gender markers on...
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NATIONAL Funding, 'Bytes' event, Oregon housing, Florida's refusal
Bytes & Bylines. Photo by Tasos Katopodis, Getty Images for GLAAD U.S. House lawmakers will no longer be able to request earmarked funding for some nonprofits under a change in eligibility made by...
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NATIONAL Target, Utah schools, AAPI pioneers, defrocked minister dies
Because of last year’s backlash, Target is planning to cut LGBTQ+-themed merchandise from some of its stores during Pride Month, Yahoo! noted, citing Bloomberg News. Target plans to offer the full...
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NATIONAL Miss. bill, Hilary Cass, NBJC, trans surfer, ban overturned
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves. Photo from official website Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law that would ban transgender people from using bathrooms that correspond with...
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WORLD Rainbow Europe Map, UK schools, murder fallout, Canadian group
ILGA-Europe released its annual Rainbow Europe Map that ranks countries across the continent regarding LGBTQ+ rights. Among the findings were that only 10 countries ban conversion practices (with...
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Libertarians select gay presidential candidate
The Libertarian Party has nominated 38-year-old Atlanta gay man Chase Oliver as its presidential candidate, according to media reports. Chase Oliver. Official campaign headshot According to his...
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NATIONAL ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ Nat’l Park Service, HRC, anchor comes out
A bill that would have expanded Alabama’s “Don’t Say Gay” law died on the final day of the 2024 regular session, The Alabama Reflector reported. HB 130—with Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, as its...
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NATIONAL ‘Protect Our Pride,’ Justice Dept., Pride flag, Philly Pride
GLAAD announced Pride 2024: Protect Our Pride, with resources, programs, and initiatives designated to enhance dialogue around Pride Month, a press release noted. GLAAD President & CEO Sarah Kate...
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NATIONAL Colorado GOP, T-shirt case, mountaintop proposal, RuPaul
The Colorado GOP was criticized for an inflammatory email with the subject line “God Hates Pride” and a video titled “God Hates Flags” that vilifies Pride Month and portrays the LGBTQ+ community with...
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NATIONAL Black survey, Title IX, DOJ, lesbian rabbi, Lambda Legal
The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), in partnership with HIT Strategies, unveiled a national survey exploring how the Black LGBTQ+ community is viewed among Black people. Among other things,...
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Rainbow Railroad’s Latoya Nugent speaks on her refugee journey,...
World Refugee Day (recognized annually on June 20) and Pride Month are especially meaningful for Rainbow Railroad’s Head of Engagement Latoya Nugent, who began her journey as a queer refugee from her...
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BREAKING: Biden to pardon military veterans prosecuted under previous...
President Joe Biden is pardoning U.S. veterans who the military convicted over a 60-year period under a military law that banned gay sex, according to CNN. In a statement issued June 26, Biden said he...
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NATIONAL White House event, demonstrators, activist honored, HIV summit
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and daughter Ashley Biden addressed attendees at the White House Pride celebration, LGBTQ Nation noted. Ashley celebrated the assembled activists—which included several...
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HRC blasts injunction against Affordable Care Act LGBTQ+ healthcare protections
From a July 3, 2024 press release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, harshly condemned the decision by a District Court judge...
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Calif. man convicted of 2018 killing of gay student
On July 3, Samuel Woodward, 26, was found guilty of murder with a hate-crime enhancement for the 2018 stabbing death of gay University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein. According to CNN,...
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NATIONAL Oregon survey, Texas court’s rulings, Stonewall, legislative package
Oregon leaders have launched what is believed to be the first community-led LGBTQ+ statewide survey, per The Bay Area Reporter. The Queer Data Project received $1.25 million in state funding this...
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Michigan law, San Antonio, New Hampshire bills, bar items
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Official head shot Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill outlawing the so-called gay and trans panic defense, which allows criminal defense attorneys to use a...
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Title IX, Rachel Maddow, Newsom’s order, Baltimore, priest sues Grindr
A federal judge in St. Louis halted implementation of Title IX—a Biden administration rule that extends protections for LGBTQ+ students—adding to the number of U.S. courts that have issued similar...
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