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Apr 13 2023
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Travel warning issued to LGBTQ+ people visiting Florida
An LGBTQ+ advocacy group has taken the "extraordinary" step of issuing a travel advisory to the community it represents, warning against visiting Florida for any period of time over concerns about "health, safety and freedom." In a statement outlining its position on Tuesday, Equality Florida, a civil rights organization, claimed that recent laws being brought forward by the state had made it
NewsweekMay 15 2024
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‘Pride in the 202’ is coming with the 2024 DC Brau Pride Pils can
WEST HOLLYWOOD – In the bustling lanes of digital storytelling, where narratives burst and fade with rapid clicks, Matt Cullen’s documentary series “Our Queer Life” emerges as a poignant chronicle of the LGBTQ+ community’s diverse experiences. With 200,000 subscribers on YouTube, Cullen’s series stands out not just for its breadth of voices—from celebrities to street hustlers—but for the depth
Washington BladeMay 15 2024
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United Methodists scrap their anti-gay bans. A pastor who defied them seeks reinstatement
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia. In a church trial, she was found guilty of violating “Christian teaching” because she had acknowledged living in a committed relationship with another woman. Earlier this month, delegates at a United Methodist Church conference struck down the UMC’s longstanding anti-LGBTQ policies
NBC News DigitalMay 14 2024
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Feds warn of ‘heightened threat’ of attacks by terror groups during Pride month
Federal authorities are urging LGBTQ+ people and their allies to be aware that “foreign terrorist organizations” or their supporters could carry out violent attacks against the community during Pride Month this year. Terrorist groups “may seek to exploit increased gatherings” associated with Pride celebrations in the U.S. and other western countries, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
New York Daily NewsMay 15 2024
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‘Don’t be weak and gay’: Bulletproof vest-wearing GOP candidate’s ad gets trigger-warning
A Missouri GOP candidate’s vest-wearing, Tate-tagging campaign spot set off her latest firestorm with a message on what not to be while jogging through an “LGBTQ neighborhood.” With incumbent Secretary of State John R. Ashcroft (R) seeking the Missouri gubernatorial nomination in 2024, a crowded field that included a number of state legislators announced their candidacy to take his place.
Bizpac ReviewMay 15 2024
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Harrison Butker’s Commencement Speech Falsehoods
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas on May 11th contains multiple errors of fact. Butker’s remarks included disparaging LGBTQ people, Pride, access to reproductive health care, and choices he believes women should make for their futures. Fact check on several erroneous claims, below. “Traditionally, commencement speeches are meant to
GLAADMay 15 2024
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Petition for Chiefs to Release Kicker Harrison Butker Causes a Stir
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is in hot water with a large faction of fans following his controversial graduation speech. After Butker’s May 11 commencement remarks at Benedictine College on May 11 went viral, a petition demanding the Chiefs to “dismiss” the 28-year-old kicker started to surge with signatures. The petition stated, “His comments were sexist, homophobic, anti-
Heavy.comMay 14 2024
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Don't be 'weak and gay,' Missouri Republican candidate says in campaign video
A Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state has posted a campaign video exhorting voters not to be “weak and gay.” “In America you can be anything you want, so don’t be weak and gay,” Valentina Gomez says in the video posted this week to X, formerly Twitter. “Stay fucking hard.” She’s shown running through the heavily LGBTQ+ Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, and then the video cuts
AdvocateJun 20 2023
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Man charged with threatening mass shooting at LGBTQ+ pride event
A 25-year-old man from Kansas was charged Tuesday with threatening to "commit a mass shooting" at an LGBTQ+ pride event in Nashville, Tennessee. Many in the LGBTQ+ community have sounded the alarms about an uptick in anti-gay and particularly anti-trans rhetoric and policies across the United States. They say 2023's pride month has been marred by a renewal of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment that has
NewsweekMay 14 2024
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Chiefs kicker criticizes IVF, Pride month and 'diabolical lies' told to women in viral graduation speech
Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker is facing backlash after delivering a controversial graduation speech to the class of 2024 at Benedictine College. The 20-minute speech was delivered on May 11 at the Catholic college’s campus in Atchison, Kansas. The NFL kicker spoke on a range of topics, including reproductive issues, women’s roles in the home, the LGBTQ community and more. "The bad
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