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Trump Administration Bars Pride Flags From Embassy Flagpoles
Four-year Dadaist art installation Donald Trump and his administration are rejecting requests from United States embassies to fly the rainbow flag most closely associated with June, LGBTQ+ Pride Month, according to NBC News. Embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia have seen their requests denied, according to diplomats. While the pride flag can and is…
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The 9th Black Trans Woman Has Been Killed This Year
On Wednesday, the body of Chanel Scurlockâa transgender black womanâwas discovered in a field in Lumberton, N.C. shortly after midnight. She was 23. The Advocate reports that the victim was identified by friends and activists after suffering an unspecified number of fatal gunshot wounds. Scurlock lived 20 miles away in neighboring Lumber Bridge and became…
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NYPD Apologizes for 1969 Stonewall Inn Raid That Sparked Modern Gay Pride Movement
New York Cityâs police commissioner apologized Thursday for the âdiscriminatory and oppressiveâ police raid 50 years ago on the Stonewall Inn that inspired what became the modern gay pride movement. Just weeks before the actual anniversary date of the raid on the gay bar in New Yorkâs Greenwich Village, Police Commissioner James OâNeill during a…
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All Boys Arenât Blue: A Black Queer Man Writes About Black Queer Life for Black Queer Kids
With All Boys Arenât Blue, George Johnson is the latest at-bat in what is shaping up to be a burgeoning, yet bountiful genre, that of black queer men coming of age. Yet, unlike Darnell Mooreâs No Ashes in the Fire or Michael Arceneauxâs I Canât Date Jesus, or DeRay Mckessonâs On The Other Side of…
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Tennessee Prosecutor to Same-Sex Couples: No Domestic Violence Protections for You!
The top prosecutor in Coffee County, Tenn., a man charged with protecting the rights and enforcing the law on behalf of all the people in his jurisdiction, apparently has no intention of doing so when it comes to LGBTQ victims of domestic violence. In video uncovered by NewsChannel 5 Nashville, Craig Northcott can be seen…
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Your Celebration of Pride Must Go Further Than Putting Up a Rainbow on Social Media
With the coming of June marks another year where I celebrate being 55 shades of gay. Indeed, I do celebrate my homosexuality every day I chose to take a breath, but June marks Pride Month and with that, the celebration gets kicked up a couple decibels. Unless youâve been under a rockâand honestly, that might…
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#SayHerName: Chynal Lindsey Is the 3rd Black Trans Woman Killed in Dallas in Less Than a Year
Chynal Lindsey was just 26 years old when her body was pulled from White Rock Lake in Dallas on Saturday, in what i believed to be the second death of a black trans woman in the city in less than a month, and the third in less than a year. Amid mounting fear of targeted…