The physical distancing, economic strain and housing instability fueled by Covid-19 are exacerbating the disproportionate mental health needs of LGBTQ people.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/pandemic-puts-added-strain-lgbtq-mental-health-n1248266
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Conversion therapy aims to change people’s sexual orientations or gender identities and is prohibited for minors in 20 states and Washington, D.C.
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Citizens initiative comes after anti-LGBT+ rhetoric from government figures
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LGBT couples in China are not being recognised in nationwide census, in spite of the fact that homosexuality has been decriminalised since 1997.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/world/china-lgbt-couple-census-b1719594.html
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Silver State is LGBT+ rights ‘rockstar’, says local activist
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Georgia and Tennessee have elected the first known LGBT members to their state legislatures.Kim Jackson, who is openly lesbian, was elected to represent heavily Democratic District 41 in the Geor…
Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524440-georgia-tennessee-elect-first-known-lgbtq-members-of-state-legislatures
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Since Dan Zwonitzer first joined the Wyoming House of Representatives in 2005, at least six bills targeting LGBTQ people have been defeated.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/meet-gay-republican-who-helped-defeat-every-anti-lgbtq-bill-n1245615
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“Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family,” the pontiff said in “Francesco,” a documentary about his life.
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First daughter Tiffany Trump has received rare social media attention, but for all the wrong reasons, after bungling a speech at a pro-LGBT ‘Trump Pride’ campaign event in Florida.
Donald Trump’s daughter addressed what appeared to be a small scattering of supporters in an echoey hall in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, where she was to address LGBT Trump supporters.
The viral-video making moment came when Tiffany attempted to use the ‘LGBTQIA’ acronym, but stopped abruptly midway and botched it by leaving out the ‘T’.
“I know what my father believes in. Prior to politics he supported gays, lesbians, the L-G-B… Q-I-A… PLUS community, okay?” she said emphatically.
I can’t unsee this. pic.twitter.com/iJiGacjhop
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) October 20, 2020
The younger Trump’s later attempts to convey her father’s support of the LGBT community fortunately were more successful, as she reiterated the message more coherently several times throughout her 10-minute speech.
Nonetheless, many on social media had a field day mocking the prodigal daughter for bumbling through the short speech and gesticulating an unusual amount during it. One user jokingly compared her to a “fan-powered dancing stick figure at a car wash grand opening.”
Tiffany Trump has the spastic mannerisms of one of those fan-powered dancing stick figures at a car wash grand opening.
— Lars McMurtry (@larsmcmurtry) October 20, 2020
Tiffany Trump at Trump Pride pic.twitter.com/j0K8LPAaTf
— • • • (@LyNotLee) October 20, 2020
Serious question:
How many of the folks at that Tiffany Trump “PRIDE” disaster were paid to be there?— inwoodguy (@Ambrodesigns) October 20, 2020
Other users were genuinely disappointed that she forgot the ‘T’ (the initial signifying trans people) in her iteration of the LGBTQ+ acronym, while others suggested she left it out on purpose.
Tiffany Trump has a PRIDE rally and omits the T from LGBTQ. Wut? pic.twitter.com/VAO6eOWJL7
— Plain Bagel (@PlainBagel5) October 20, 2020
so messy, also did she intentionally exclude transpeople?
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani
(@AnnaForFlorida) October 20, 2020
The LGBT community is traditionally a Democratic Party voting bloc in the US, but Republican Trump has made some plays at winning gay voters. Back in September, his son Eric Trump attempted to convey the Trump campaign’s support for LGBT people on Fox News, which resulted in an embarrassing fail not unsimilar to Tiffany’s.
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A state regulatory board removed the discrimination protections following a recommendation from Gov. Greg Abbott.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/texas-social-workers-can-now-turn-away-lgbtq-disabled-clients-n1243891
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Austin Quinn-Davidson will serve as acting mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, after the outgoing mayor resigned over an “inappropriate” relationship with a reporter.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/anchorage-chooses-1st-woman-openly-gay-acting-mayor-n1243866
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Likely voters in 10 battleground states were found to overwhelmingly support LGBTQ rights, according to a survey by Hart Research and the Human Rights Campaign.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/majority-trump-supporters-battleground-states-favor-lgbtq-rights-poll-finds-n1243238
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s center-left government vowed on Monday to ban conversion therapy if returned to power, as widely expected.
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LGBTQ people are nearly four times as likely to be victims of violent crime than their non-LGBTQ counterparts, a study published in Science Advances found.
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Proud Boys, a far-right group founded in 2016, calls itself a “white chauvinist” organization but is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/twitter-users-flood-proudboys-hashtag-gay-pride-images-n1242101
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Conversion therapy is any practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
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