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Ten LGBTQ News Stories the Mainstream Media Ignored in 2015
Truthout recaps some of the LGBTQ stories the mainstream media missed, ignored or just plain got wrong in 2015.
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To the Donald Trump-Led GOP: We Will Fight You and We Will Win
We must combat racism in politics and in our communities, and build a multiracial movement against white supremacy.
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Openly Gay Imam Creates Online School for LGBTQ-Friendly Islamic Philosophy
Daayiee Abdullah is working to promote LGBTQ inclusion in all Muslim institutions.
Celebrating Resilience on Trans Day of Remembrance
Through their work, artists seek to lift up the resilience, power and beauty of trans and gender-nonconforming communities of color.
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Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance Highlights the GOP Long Con
The great Republican fear campaign has struck again.
New Survey Uncovers the Experiences of LGBTQ Prisoners
A new report's findings paint a grim picture of criminalization of and violence towards LGBTQ people - particularly LGBTQ people of color.
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Federal Report Calls for an End to Conversion Therapy
“Conversion therapy” is used on LGBTQ individuals to, essentially, turn them straight and cis gender.
Court Cites UN Torture Convention to Protect Transgender Immigrants in the US
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that immigration courts must distinguish between sexual orientation and gender identity in immigrants seeking asylum or relief from deportation.
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Inside the Texas Megachurch Where 90 Percent of Worshipers Are LGBT
There are hundreds of LGBT-friendly churches around the country - and many are in conservative cities where you'd least expect them.
Protests Grow over Clerk’s Denial of Same-Sex Marriages
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses.