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Thirteen police officers in Philadelphia will be fired after they were found posting racist, homophobic, and transphobic messages on social media. The social media posts were found by the Plain View Project, which tracks hate speech by law enforcement officials. Police Commissioner Richard Ross said yesterday that 328 police officers were included in the database and that the 13 who were fired were the worst offenders with the most violent posts. Four additional officers were suspended for 30 days and must undergo...

Rodrigo Duterte, the conservative president of the Philippines, said that he used to be gay but that he has since been “cured.” During a speech yesterday, Duterte “confessed” that he was gay before he met his ex-wife, Elizabeth Zimmerman, local publication Rappler reports. He then attacked Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, one of his main critics, accusing the senator of being gay. Duterte said that Trillanes’s “movements” showed that he was gay. “You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say...
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Barack Obama seems to be enjoying life post-White House, vacationing in the British Virgin Islands with his family and friend Richard Branson. Branson, who once asked then President Obama for weed while at a fancy White House dinner, invited the Obamas to stay on Mosikto Island. The businessman shared his experiences taking Obama kitesurfing in a video to his YouTube channel and in a blog post. Branson writes: One of the first stories Barack told me when he and Michelle arrived on Moskito...
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WASHINGTON — The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. In a statement issued in response to growing questions about whether Mr. Trump would reverse the Obama order, the White House said the president was proud to embrace gay rights. “President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of L.G.B.T.Q. rights, just as he was throughout the election,” the...
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Ellen DeGeneres compiled a message from celebs including Neil Patrick Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and many more offering a personal message of thanks to President Obama for everything he accomplished in the name of equality. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNladeDWfI Thank you, President Obama! Source
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Incoming President Trump has ordered the “immediate” removal of all ambassadors appointed by President Obama, in a departure from usual protocol. When Obama took office in 2008, there were no openly gay ambassadors representing the US – and the President sought to counter the lack of representation by appointing a string of out ambassadors to countries around the world. Among gay ambassadors appointed by President Obama are Rufus Gifford (Denmark), John Berry (Australia), Daniel Baer (Austria), James Costos (Spain), and Wally...
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"Part of being American is having a responsibility to stand up for freedom - not just our own freedom, but for everybody’s freedom. Our individual stories come together to make one large American story." So said Barack Obama in Out Magazine, becoming the first ever US president to appear on the cover of an LGBT publication. He was interviewed by Out after being named their Ally of the Year, a title he received for his work on same sex marriage...

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