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Nationwide Week of Action Calls on ICE to Free Nicoll Hernandez-Polanco From Men’s Detention Facility
Hernandez-Polanco's experiences in detention reflect reality for many, if not most, trans women detained in immigration facilities.
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No to Prison Industrial Complex: San Francisco’s Trans Community Responds to Brutal Murders
Grieving a trans woman of color's recent murder, activists in San Francisco call for community-based safety solutions.
Exchanging Vows, Alabama Same-Sex Couples Make History in a State Where Discrimination Runs Deep
Alabama has become the 37th state to allow same-sex marriage after the Supreme Court rejected the state's bid to block the unions.
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The LGBTQ Issue Where the President Must Still Evolve
President Obama has evolved on LGBTQ issues, but on immigration, is he still enforcing exclusion?
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Chile’s LGBT Movement Wins Historic Victory With Approval of Civil Unions
After four years of intense work by LGBT organizations, a civil union law was passed.
How “Hate Crimes Against Police” Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Hate crime laws lent legitimacy to a prison and policing system that has wrought immense damage on communities of color.
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Human Rights Campaign Under Fire in LGBT Community
Queer groups call foul on the largest LGBT nonprofit, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), for glorifying corporations the groups consider to be downright dirty.
Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.
#VoteLGBT: Campaign For LGBT Political Representation in Brazil
The initiative publicizes Brazilian Legislative candidates in favor of LGBT civil rights.
Updated – Michael Sam: Out of the Closet, Out of the NFL?
While the NFLu2019s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, has been picked up by the Dallas Cowboys, the leagueu2019s teams had shown hesitance to sign the talented defense, supposedly …