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Biden's new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but transgender sports rule still on hold
The Title IX provisions promise to dismantle rules created by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who added new safeguards for students accused of sexual misconduct. Biden’s policy does not have any mention of transgender athletes.
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Two men charged in overdose death of NYC transgender activist and actress
Two men were charged in the death of LGBTQ+ activist Cecilia Gentili, who died as a result of an overdose from heroin and fentanyl in February. The men are facing charges for selling the drugs that killed her. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.
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2 charged with distributing drugs that led to NYC transgender activist's death
Two men in Brooklyn are facing charges in connection to the death of a prominent transgender activist and actress in New York City, prosecutors announced.
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Lawmakers in Thailand approve bill to legalize same-sex marriage
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.
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Support for same-sex marriage and LGBTQ protections dipped in 2023, survey shows
The share of U.S. adults who support same-sex marriage and laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination has dipped in the last year, a survey has found, according to NBC News.
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Suspect charged with hate crimes for anti-gay slashing on A train at Penn Station: NYPD
A suspect was arrested and charged with hate crimes in connection with a slashing aboard the subway in Manhattan in which he made anti-LGBTQ remarks toward the victim, according to police.
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County exec sues New York over order to rescind his ban on transgender female athletes
A county executive in the New York City suburbs has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state order demanding he rescind a controversial ban on transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the “cease and desist” letter issued by state Attorney General Letitia James violates the U.S. Constitution’s...
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NY attorney general sends Long Island exec cease-and-desist over transgender athlete ban
In a move that a local official said was done to battle so-called “bullying” from people born biologically male, a Long Island county is banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports at their facilities.
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Nassau County bans trans athletes from competing at county facilities
It’s being called a first-in-the-nation ban on trans athletes competing in women’s sports countywide on Long Island. LGBTQ advocates called it illegal, while supporters said it’s a matter of fairness and safety to women and girls. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.
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Long Island county bans transgender athletes from competing with girls
In a move that a local official said was done to battle so-called “bullying” from people born biologically male, a Long Island county is banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports at their facilities.
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El Minuto 2/21 English Edition
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Tuesday lauded St. Patrick’s Cathedral officiants who curtailed a funeral where more than 1,000 people had gathered to celebrate the life of Cecilia Gentili, a 52-year-old Catholic who, apparently unbeknownst to the church before the service, was also a renowned transgender activist.
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Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents, even with no specific law
Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home.
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Nearly 30% of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ, national survey finds
More than 1 in 4 Gen Z adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, dwarfing the percentages of LGBTQ Americans in older age groups, a new survey has found.
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Transgender people can be baptized Catholic and serve as godparents, Vatican says
The document was signed Oct. 21 by Pope Francis and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
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NYC artist paints celebrity hair portraits on their head
East Harlem artist Marieke Bauer details their hair painting process. NBC New York’s Kay Angrum reports.
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Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christian prayer and the Bible back in schools
Some Christian pastors and politicians argue that school prayer would prevent children from identifying as transgender. LGBTQ rights advocates are fighting back.
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Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license
A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Arrest made 2 months after vandals damage dozens of Pride flags at Stonewall Monument
Police announced an arrest in a case of vandalism at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan’s West Village. Patrick Murphy, 25, of Denver, is facing a hate crime charge for the June 10 incident when about 60 flags were torn down from the fence, broken apart and thrown on the sidewalk. The NYPD released surveillance video allegedly showing Murphy and…
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Runner attacked at NYC park in suspected hate crime
Police are investigating an attack on a runner alone Manhattan’s west side in Hudson River Park. Marc Santia reports.
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Runner hit in face in anti-LGBTQ attack in Manhattan's Hudson River Park: Police
A woman who was jogging along the Manhattan waterfront was hit in the face by a man in what is believed to have been anti-LGBTQ attack, according to police.