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Pedro Pascal, Dua Lipa, Daniel Radcliffe among celebs calling on Trump to preserve funding for LGBTQ suicide hotline

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More than 100 celebrities across the entertainment industry are calling on President Trump’s administration to protect an LGBTQ youth crisis service’s funding amid broader spending cuts. 

An internal budget document first reported by The Washington Post would eliminate specialized services for LGBTQ youth who contact 988, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, a proposal that would have “devastating, life-threatening consequences for young people across the country,” reads an open letter organized and published Monday by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit group that responds to roughly half of 988’s calls and texts from LGBTQ youth...

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