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Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee have introduced legislation that will ensure that people with anti-LGBTQ+ prejudices can foster and adopt children. Opponents of the proposed law say it could lead to situations in which LGBTQ+ children are placed with parents who do not accept their sexual orientation or gender identity. Introduced in both the Tennessee
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Japan’s fitful march toward marriage equality took a giant leap on Thursday when a high court ruled the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. “Disallowing marriage to same-sex couples is a discrimination that lacks rationality,” the ruling said, while noting that “enacting same-sex marriage does not seem to cause disadvantages or harmful effects.” Related:
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Kristen Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Photo: Screenshot In February, out actress Kristen Stewart sent right-wingers into a tailspin when she appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing nothing but a leather vest and a jockstrap. Stewart told the publication she wanted the shoot to be the “gayest f**king thing you’ve
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Nex Benedict Photo: GoFundMe The Oklahoma state medical examiner’s office has ruled Nex Benedict’s death a suicide. The 16-year-old Owasso High School sophomore of Choctaw descent died on February 8, a day after a violent altercation with three other students in a school bathroom in which he was reportedly beaten until he blacked out. Benedict,
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England’s National Health Service (NHS) announced Tuesday that it will halt puberty blocker prescriptions for transgender minors. The change follows an ongoing independent review that found there was “not enough evidence” that the hormone treatments, which block the physical changes of puberty, are safe or effective. Related: Puberty blockers will now only be available as
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A new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) shows support for marriage equality has dipped from a high water mark in 2022. For the first time since PRRI began tracking nationwide support for three key LGBTQ+ rights policies — nondiscrimination protections, religiously-based service refusals, and same-sex marriage — the group found a decline
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Small MPOX outbreaks have recently occurred in New York, North Carolina, and Colorado. But while the virus behind the painful skin infection caused a national public health emergency in 2022, the U.S. officially declared an end to the emergency over a year ago. Since then, there has been little national messaging around what, if anything,
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Dylan Dittrich-Reed and his son, Niko, pose for a portrait outside of the S.C. Statehouse on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Dittrich-Reed is worried he will have to move his family out of state if they cannot get gender-affirming health care for his son. Photo: MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK Despite anti-transgender activists’ claims
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Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Marc Saltarelli, the Filmmaker behind  “Studio One Forever”. Marc Saltarelli is a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose narrative films and documentaries have made him one of the most respected and admired directors and producers in the film industry.  His movies have collectively been screened in over 250 major film festivals around
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An AI-generated image of Trump with Black people. Notice the oddly-rendered hands and lettering. Photo: Twitter screenshot Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has begun actively courting Black voters, a group that has traditionally voted Democrat. Trump’s supporters have also begun courting this group by making dozens of artificial intelligence (AI) generated images of him surrounded by
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J.K. Rowling Photo: Shutterstock Author J.K. Rowling has been reported to the police by British TV broadcaster India Willoughby for misgendering her. This follows a years-long feud between the two triggered by the Harry Potter author’s history of transphobic comments. “J.K. Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” Willoughby, the first transgender talk show host in
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The DeMoss Learning Center at Liberty University Photo: EOverbey via Wikimedia Commons and Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Liberty University — the Christian conservative and anti-LGBTQ private school in Lynchburg, Virginia — has been fined $14 million by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for not reporting on-campus crimes as required by the
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A research fits a woman with a brainwave scanning headset Photo: Shutterstock Neurological researchers have developed brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use artificial intelligence (AI) to “read minds” and detect people’s thoughts and sexual orientations. Though the tech is still very new and somewhat crude, it has ethicists thinking about the legal protections humans will need
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Drag queen dances in “Kangaroo Time” Photo: Screenshot “Kangaroo Time,” a music video featuring drag queens, kangaroos, and ballet dancers, has won a prestigious international science competition. Queer behavioral ecologist Weliton Menário Costa took home the top prize at the Eurovision-like “Dance Your Ph.D.” competition. Costa has spent years studying eastern grey kangaroos. Related: Costa’s
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Former President Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) for his state’s governor, calling Robinson “Martin Luther King on steroids.” However, Robinson has said he considers King to be an “inferior pastor” and a “communist” who wanted to “subvert capitalism” and “free choice.” These comments cap off his years of extremely hateful language towards
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Today is Super Tuesday, when 15 states and one territory hold votes for Democratic and Republican primaries. But while President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are largely expected to sweep their parties’ races for president, Super Tuesday will also help select the candidates running in other state and local races that could drastically
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