Laverne Cox has spoken about cisgender actors being cast in trans roles

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

Laverne Cox has spoken about casting trans roles and whether cisgender actors are suitable for the job.Cox, who is known for her role in Orange is the New Black, spoke about the issue this week after controversial clips from the film Anything were re

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Teen killed in vicious homophobic attack where he was beaten, burnt and raped for hours

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

A teenager in Malaysia has died following a violent attack in which he was beaten, burnt and raped for hours by his homophobic school bullies. A group of young men aged between 16 and 18 attacked the teenager outside of a burger shop on Friday in a s

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Philadelphia shouldn’t have added black & brown stripes to the rainbow

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

It’s an interesting time to be an LGBT Philadelphian.The city kicked off Pride Month with the introduction of a new pride flag. The new design includes two additional stripes, one black and one brown, to symbolize the inclusion of LGBT people of colo

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4 protestors arrested at Columbus Pride parade

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

Four protesters were arrested at Columbus Pride yesterday.About a dozen people went to the pride parade to protest the acquittal of Philando Castile, an African American man who was shot and killed by police officer Jeronimo Yanez during a traffic st

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’Queer lives matter’: gay teacher’s message to Trump as photo goes viral

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

A Rhode Island teacher who became a star on social media after displaying LGBTQ pride in a photograph taken with Donald Trump in the Oval Office also wrote that he wanted to tell the president: Anti-LGBTQ policies have a body count.Nikos Giannopoulos

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Watch a courageous Mormon 12-year-old tell her church she’s gay

• Released Date: 18-Jun-2017

In a video posted to Facebook this week, a 12-year-old girl identified only as Savannah came out to her church in a moving speech. I believe I am a child of heavenly parents. I don’t know if they talk to us, but I feel in my heart that they made me a

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Trans worker forced to use the broom closet as a bathroom

• Released Date: 17-Jun-2017

La’Ray Reed worked at a McDonald’s in the Detroit, Michigan, area for several months in 2015 and is now filing suit against both the McDonald’s corporation and the franchisee for sexual harassment and sex discrimination.Reed is a transgender woman an

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Man scratches hateful message into his fence as neighbors put up pride flags

• Released Date: 17-Jun-2017

A homophobe in Seattle scratched an anti-gay message into his own fence. Shaun Shaffer shares a house with three other gay men, and they put up several flags on their house for pride month.We just finished putting up the flags, and we were taking the

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WATCH: The first NYC Pride commercial aired on TV and it’s a big deal

• Released Date: 17-Jun-2017

For the first time in history, New York City Pride aired a commercial on television.During Wheel of Fortune on Tuesday 13 June, TV station ABC7 aired the first ever commercial advertising the NYC Pride March on 25 June. The ad was broadcasted to ever

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6 Pride events that went on in the face of violent threats

• Released Date: 17-Jun-2017

Pride events offer a chance to express oneself, call for LGBTQ rights, and celebrate the victories that have so far been achieved in that ongoing struggle. Yet some still take such issue with these outward signs of progress and community, including i

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Trump to deport Christians back to ISIS territory, but the right is silent

• Released Date: 16-Jun-2017

Earlier today I posted a video of Tucker Carlson and Chadwick Moore in which they both pretended to be surprised that American LGBTQ people would be concerned with homophobia in the U.S. instead of homophobia in other countries.As if people can’t be

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Justin Trudeau: Criminal convictions of LGBTI Canadians will be expunged

• Released Date: 16-Jun-2017

Criminal convictions against Canadians once charged with crimes based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression will be expunged.This is according to a new plan announced this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ‘I believe

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