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25 votes
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Becoming a man
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Utah has voted to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for children, becoming the 19th US state to outlaw the discredited practice
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Denmark to finally allow gay and bisexual men to give blood – but only after four month abstinence period
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Gender neutral toilets in use for first time at Australian Open
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Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after 'barrage of attacks'
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I used to be an anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s what finally changed my heart and mind.
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Gay man who protested against Drag Queen Story Time dies by suicide
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay. Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event. The following...
Wilson Gavin was the President of the University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club. He was also gay.
Earlier this week, he led a protest against a Drag Queen Story Time event.
The following day, he was found dead at a local railway station, having committed suicide.
He has formerly campaigned against same-sex marriage.
His family have released a statement.
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Virginia school board stops removal of LGBTQ-themed children’s books
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Two gay Chinese dads. One long and winding trip to fatherhood
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A top YouTube makeup artist revealed she’s transgender. She said she was blackmailed into it.
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One goal of United Methodists’ plan to split the church over same-sex marriage and clergy: Avoid lawsuits
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UK Ministry of Defence buildings lit up in rainbow colours
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A genderless prophet drew hundreds of followers long before the age of nonbinary pronouns
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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
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Gay, Christian and a former preacher, I'm coming out to help anyone hurt by Folau
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JK Rowling's Maya Forstater tweets support hostile work environments, not free speech
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The US Navy made Harvey Milk resign for being gay. Now they’re building a ship named after him.
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Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
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The Church of Sweden has unveiled the country’s first-ever LGBT+ altarpiece and homophobes are very upset about it
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Russians under threat for Q&A video
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Sweden has been named the most LGBT-friendly country in the world for travellers according to new research into gay rights in 150 countries
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day dedicated to remembering trans* people who we have lost to transphobic violence
HuffPo: At Least 22 Transgender People Were Killed In 2019. Here Are Their Stories. GLAAD is holding on online vigil Daily Beast: The Transgender Day of Remembrance: So Much Loss, So Much to Keep...
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Suicide rates fall among LGBT+ community in Sweden and Denmark – reduced stigma for minorities is likely driving the drop, the report said
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Instagram "Personals" account relaunches as Lex, a dating and social app targeted for people who are lesbian, bisexual, asexual, womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two-spirit and non-binary
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Trans athletes are posting victories and shaking up sports
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Liberal mom forces son to be transgender? - The Younger Case
11 votes -
100 hours of name change labor
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LGBTQ individuals, how's life?
I'm curious how many of us there are on here. This was asked awhile ago but I'm curious how things might have changed since then. Some ideas for discussion: When did you realize you weren't...
I'm curious how many of us there are on here. This was asked awhile ago but I'm curious how things might have changed since then. Some ideas for discussion:
- When did you realize you weren't cis/straight/etc?
- Are you out or still in the closet?
- How's the social situation where you live? (Are you accepted?)
- In a relationship? If so, how did you meet?
- Anything on your mind? (Doesn't have to be related to your identity/orientation.)
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Beautiful tomboys of the 1930s
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Steam LGBTQ+ Games Sale
11 votes -
Christian right tactics to fight trans rights: seperate the T from LGBT
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A queer user’s guide to the wild and terrifying world of LGBTQ dating apps
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Transgender man who gave birth must be registered as "mother" on the birth certificate
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US Supreme Court term to begin with blockbuster question: Is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender?
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Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people
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Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
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October 1 1989 – Thirty years after Denmark became the first country to allow same-sex couples to register in legal unions
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Who are your favorite fictional LGBT characters?
The question follows the lead of our community name: LGBT in the title refers to the LGBT umbrella and isn't limited to the identities represented by the initials. The character can be from any...
The question follows the lead of our community name: LGBT in the title refers to the LGBT umbrella and isn't limited to the identities represented by the initials.
The character can be from any media source: shows, movies, anime, books, comics, videogames, even song lyrics, or anything else I've missed. The only criteria is that they have to be fictional.
- Who is the character and how are they portrayed?
- What do you like about them?
- Do they resonate with your own experience or those of people you know in any way?
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Merriam-Webster adds sense of ‘they’ as a pronoun for nonbinary people to the dictionary
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LGBT+ women face “significant barriers” when it comes to accessing healthcare, according to a pioneering new report.
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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Teacher sues Christian School over marriage equality beliefs
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New York City's council proposes repealing the city’s ban on conversion therapy in order to thwart a potential Supreme Court battle
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Gay Anglican priests fight to get church blessing of their same-sex marriage
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For those who are not asexual but not celibate either, a 'demisexual' label is helping to define their love lives
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Holocaust-denial, religious bigotry and pepper spray: An account of what really happened at Boston’s Straight Pride
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When feminism supports trans rights everybody wins – just like in Iceland
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Conversion therapy group founder comes out as gay, apologizes
21 votes