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Making a nation reach for anti-nausea drugs, Donald Trump has tried to advocate his ban on transgender people serving in the military by claiming they take too many drugs. In an interview with British muckraker Piers Morgan, Morgan confronted Trump about the hypocrisy of claiming to support the LGBTQ community while banning transgender servicemen. “They take massive amounts of drugs—they have to—and you’re not allowed to take drugs,” Trump said of transgender soldiers. “I’m proud of them, but you have...

Two House Representatives recently reintroduced a bill that would decrease bias within the foster system, giving more children a chance to join a loving family. Image via ProudParenting.comIt’s no secret that while the intention of the Foster Care system in the US is good, there are many problems within it. One such problem is that many adoption agencies will not place children with same-sex prospective parents despite the parents being fully capable of taking care of children. This may...

Republican Florida state Rep. Mike Hill might want to start updating his resume because he may soon be out of a job. Last weekend, audio of Hill making homophobic comments during a forum held by the group Women for Responsible Legislation leaked online. In the recording, the 61-year-old lawmaker is heard saying that being gay is a choice and therefore unworthy of protections in the Civil Rights Act, like those for race and gender. When a man in the crowd calls for...

Craig Northcott, image via screenshotCraig Northcott, a district attorney in Tennessee’s Coffee County, recently said that he wouldn’t enforce the state’s domestic violence laws in cases of abuse between same-sex spouses because he doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage, according to NBC News. In a recently unearthed 2018 video, a constituent asks Northcott how Christians should react to the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. His response was shocking. Referring to the makeup of the Supreme Court, Northcott said, “Five people in black dresses...

Things aren’t looking so good for Republican Florida state Rep. Mike Hill, and his desperation is starting to show. Over the weekend, audio of Hill making the homophobic comments during a forum held by the group Women for Responsible Legislation leaked online. In the recording, the 61-year-old lawmaker is heard saying being gay is a choice and therefore unworthy of protections in the Civil Rights Act, like those for race and gender. “My fundamental problem with that is someone’s sexual orientation or...

Thousands of queer protesters–and allies–greeted a visit by Donald Trump to the United Kingdom this week, all with a singular message: We don’t like you. Leave. Trump traveled to the UK to meet with lame duck Prime Minister Theresa May about the upcoming Brexit, when the UK will leave the European Union. During his trip, Trump will also meet with the Queen to discuss various diplomatic issues. The Brits gave the US President one hell of a greeting. Thousands of demonstrators...

Pete Buttigieg sat down with Now This News for a lightning round of hard-hitting questions about a wide range of important issues, including his favorite curse word, whether hot dogs are sandwiches (spoiler: they’re not!), who would play him in a movie, his first job, his worst habit, his karaoke go-to song, and so much more. source

A Flordia politician has ignited criticism in his response to the idea that gay people should be legally executed in America. Florida state Rep. Mike Hill (R) made the comments during a forum held by the group Women for Responsible Legislation. Audio of Hill making the remarks surfaced online over the weekend, bringing with it immediate backlash. The conversation starts with a constituent asking Hill why one of his Republican colleagues sponsored an LGBTQ rights bill in the state legislature. “Thank goodness...

Steven Crowder (image via YouTube: Steven Crowder)YouTube has pledged to investigate right-wing vlogger Steven Crowder, host of the web-show Louder with Crowder, for harassing gay Vox Media journalist Carlos Maza after Maza posted a viral tweet thread blasting YouTube for ignoring Crowder’s years of targeted harassment. In Maza’s tweet thread (included here in full), he wrote: Maza’s tweets included a video compilation of Crowder’s homophobic abuse in which he calls Maza “a tr*nny,” says Maza eats a lot of d*cks and “sashays...

Presidential hopeful Mayor Pete Buttigieg got choked up during a campaign event this weekend, when asked by a second grader about keeping schools safe from shootings. Buttigieg, who served a tour in Afganistan, spoke about the dangers of allowing guns in the hands of criminals or the mentally ill, and expressed frustration over the lack of action on gun control following numerous, recent shooting massacres like those at Parkland High or the Pulse nightclub. He then got emotional talking about...

Colorado governor Jared Polis, the nation’s first openly gay governor, just signed two bills into law. The first bans so-called “conversion therapy,” making Colorado the 18th state to ban the practice of trying to change sexual orientation. The medical field has widely attacked the practice as extremely harmful and ineffective. The second bill allows for an easier change of gender listings on government documents. The move will benefit transgender and non-binary people to change their gender without having to go through...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte just referred to himself as a “cured” gay. Duterte made the statement during a joint summit in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. During a speech there, Duterte referred to his longtime political rival, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, as gay. “You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say he’s gay,” Duterte said in his remarks. “Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself…When I began a relationship with Zimmerman,...

Donald Trump clearly didn’t mean what was implied when he held the pride flag (upside-down) in support of LGBTQ rights. Image by Steven Crowley via The New York Times.We’ve all read about the damage that the Trump administration has done to LGBTQ people, whether directly or indirectly, from the transgender military ban to nominating an anti-gay candidate for a lifetime position as a judge, Trump has shown that he is not a friend of LGBTQ people. To make matters...

Image via YouTube: Real Time with Bill MaherAfter being de-platformed by nearly every social network on Earth, Milo Yiannopoulos briefly distracted himself from being millions of dollars in debt by campaigning for Carl Benjamin, an anti-feminist, anti-Muslim, far-right British political candidate who supports the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party, thinks Jews should get over the Holocaust and that right-wingers shouldn’t act like “f*ggots” and  “white n*ggers.” In short, Benjamin is exactly the sort of person Yiannopoulos loves making pals with. But as some British protestors...