LGBTI youth are coming of age in Japan

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

A longstanding traditional Japanese custom is celebrating ‘Seijin no Hi’ or ‘coming of age’ for teenagers who have turned 20.

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Spicer: LGBT Attacks Are Not Linked to Anti-Trans Order

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

A reporter asked Sean Spicer at the White House press conference Wednesday if Donald Trump would denounce the rash of attacks on LGBT community centers throughout the nation, including the recent vandalization of the Casa Ruby center in Washington, D

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DA: Oklahoma lawmaker and Trump campaign leader offered male teen money for ’sexual stuff’

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey was charged today with engaging in child prostitution and turned himself over to police.The Republican lawmaker was found in a motel room with a teenaged boy after allegedly offering him money for ‘sexual stuff.’

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While VA Hospital Boasted Of 20-Person Transgender Program, 100,000 Vets Lacked ‘Safe’ Care

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital that touted its program focusing on 20 transgendered individuals failed in caring for the remaining 111,000 veterans on health care essentials like keeping its medical equipment clean and properly traini

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Transphobic comments almost cause international incident in Indonesia

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

An Indonesian mayor has quickly backtracked on comments he made about a popular Thai actress.Actress PunPun Sutatta Udomsilp who has 5.3 million Instagram followers was visiting the Bandung township in Indonesia’s East Java province last week.

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One hundred years ago, people had a very different idea of what it means to be heterosexual. Understanding that shift in thinking can tell us a lot about fluid sexual identities today, argues Brandon Ambrosino.

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

The 1901 Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex. More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster’s dictionary similarly defined it as morbid sexual passion for one of th

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Gay couple told by pizzeria employee they can’t kiss in ’Trump’s America’

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

An affectionate gay couple were threatened by a bouncer as they prepared to enter a pizzeria in Cincinatti, Ohio.Bobby Slavens and fiancé Luke Munz were with friends as they arrived at Goodfellas Pizzeria in the city’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood whe

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Politician demands all HIV positive people are put on watchlist

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

A German politician is demanding all HIV positive people are put on a national watchlist – without their consent.

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People are angry over this letter to Australia’s Prime Minister

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

Twenty of Australia’s top business people have written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urging him to act on marriage equality.

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Gay teen, 16, hangs herself over homophobic bullying

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

A 16-year-old was repeatedly bullied online over her sexuality before she killed herself, her father has said.

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Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank Amy Schumer’s Netflix Special

• Released Date: 16-Mar-2017

Just two years ago Amy Schumer’s star began a meteoric rise. The Last F**kable Day sketch, a wry, genius examination of women’s expiration dates in Hollywood that featured Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patricia Arquette, went viral after it aire

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Man heading to LA Pride parade with explosives and weapons ordered to stand trial

• Released Date: 15-Mar-2017

Just hours after 49 people were shot to death inside Orlando’s Pulse nightclub last June, James Howell was arrested across the country.

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