ELECTIONS 2020 ILLINOIS STATE REP (9TH DISTRICT) Candidate Ty Cratic on LGBT issues, campaign challenges

• Released Date: 19-Feb-2020

Political consultant TyJuan "Ty" Cratic, who is openly gay, is one of several candidates vying to fill the vacancy left from the stepping-down of longtime state Rep. Arthur Turner. Among his competitors, in fact, is Turner's son, Aaron. But Cratic is

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Bedroom bill: Proposed ‘family resilience’ law would require LGBT people to report for ‘rehabilitation’

• Released Date: 19-Feb-2020

A draft bill on family resilience proposed by members of the House of Representatives defines homosexuality as sexual deviance and requires lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to report to authorities for rehabilitation. Article 85 o

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How the Left Brought Down the Boy Scouts

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

RUSH: The Boy Scouts are going out of business, and it’s because they’ve been – ah, yes. Here we go. “Boy Scouts of America Files for Bankruptcy After Sex Abuse Lawsuits.” I think what jogged my memory on this,  <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/

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French community suspends Polish ties over anti-LGBT declaration

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

A community in France has unanimously voted to suspend ties with a Polish town over its attitude to gay people.Councillors in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orleans have confirmed that they would be ending "official relations" with the town of Tuchów, in s

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MORE THAN OUR APPETITES

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

Fr. James Martin, S.J., avers that his advocacy does not challenge Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. He has made a point of <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/04/06/what-official-church-teaching-homosexuality-responding-commonly-as

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VIRGINIA FIRST IN THE SOUTH TO PASS LQBTQI RIGHTS LAW

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

Virginia has become the first Southern US state to pass broad-spectrum LGBTQI rights legislation banning discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations.The ‘Virginia Values Act’ bill passed through the Virginia Senate and House of De

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Marvel star Rosario Dawson just came out while making an important point about bi-erasure

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

Marvel actress Rosario Dawson has come out as LGBT, ending two years of speculation over her sexuality following a post about Pride month.Dawson, 40, is best known for her role as Gail in Sin City, and for her portrayal of Claire Temple in Netflix’s 

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Community LGBTQ supportiveness may reduce substance use among sexual minority adolescents

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

New Rochelle, NY, February 18, 2020--A new research study provides novel insights into community-level predictors of lifetime substance use among a sample of 2678 sexual minority adolescents. Community LGBTQ supportiveness was found to be associated

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French town suspends ties with Polish twin city over LGBT rights

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an area “free of LGBT ideology.”

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226 bills target LGBTQ Americans this year. One organization is behind a lot of them

• Released Date: 18-Feb-2020

The group  <a href="https://www.equalityfederation.org/">Equality Federation</a> is currently tracking 226 anti-LGBTQ bills being considered in state legislatures throughout the country, and one organization in particular is responsible for many of t

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LGBTIQ history: Australia’s earliest known gay love letter

• Released Date: 17-Feb-2020

Most of what we know of LGBTIQ Australians in the colonial era comes from court and prison records. Australia’s earliest known gay love letter is no different. Indeed, it is the letter of a convict to the person he loved most — a man he knew he would

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Franklin Graham insists he’s not homophobic, queer people are just ‘truthophobic’, in bizarre rant at UK

• Released Date: 17-Feb-2020

Pro-Trump evangelical leader Franklin Graham has said people in the UK are “truthophobic” after his tour there was cancelled due to his anti-LGBT+ comments.Graham hit out at people who campaigned to have him banned from  <a href="https://www.pinknews

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