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Southern Poverty Law Center Releases Report Detailing Rise in Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups in 2019

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released their 2019 Year in Hate and Extremism report, which tracks U.S.-based hate groups. While there was a slight decline in overall groups last year, there was an ...

Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Paid for White House Official’s Trip to Religious Freedom Summit

A White House official took a free trip to a religious liberty summit hosted by an anti-LGBTQ hate group, according to a travel report released by government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in W...

Facebook Made $500,000 Off Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups

Facebook made over half a million dollars over the last year in advertising revenue from anti-LGBTQ hate groups despite its anti-hate speech policy, according to an analysis by Sludge. Sludge found that Face...

Judge Rules Southern Poverty Law Center Can List Florida Christian Group as Hate Group

A federal judge ruled that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is allowed to label anti-LGBTQ Florida-based evangelical Christian media outreach group D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) as a hate group, acco...

U.S.’s Biggest Charities Anonymously Funneling Money to Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups

Several of the largest charitable gift funds in the United States have been allowing anonymous donors to donate millions of dollars to anti-LGBTQ hate groups, according to Sludge. Through Donors Trust, Fidel...

Metro Atlanta Church Could be Added to Southern Poverty Law Center’s List of Hate Groups

Strong Hold Baptist Church, a new church in Metro Atlanta, may soon be added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s national list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups, reported WSB-TV. Pastor David Berzins told WSB-TV th...

LGBT Groups Denounce Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting as ‘Horrific Attack’

As the world stands aghast over the latest mass shooting in the United States in which at least 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh were killed, LGBT groups were among those to condemn the atrocity. Janso...

David Dinielli of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Transgender woman in Georgia men’s detention center granted asylum

Last month, a transgender woman identified only by the initials S.A.C. was granted asylum in the United States after enduring rape and torture in her native Guatemala and subsequently spending several months ho...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Feb. 16

1. Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center named the litigation organization Alliance Defending Freedom as an anti-LGBT hate group. The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a number of "religious freedom" lawsui...

Justice Department, U.S. Attorney investigating treatment of Georgia LGBT prisoners

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office have opened up a joint investigation into the Georgia Department of Corrections' (GDC) treatment of LGBT prisoners. The investigation follows the hi...

Transgender Georgia inmate who filed suit against state released from prison early

Ashley Diamond is finally home. The transgender Georgia inmate, who filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) alleging she had been denied medical treatment for gend...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Biden Rallies LGBTQ Supporters, Denounces Trump at HRC Event

Ginsburg’s Death Leaves LGBTQ Rights on Supreme Court Vulnerable to Religious Claims

Former Methodist Church in Savannah Becomes Nondenominational Over LGBTQ Beliefs

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Jonathan Bennett Stars in Hallmark’s New LGBTQ-inclusive Christmas Rom-Com

Brandon Krajewski on Directing and Co-Writing ‘Stone | Fruit’

Cindy L. Abel Talks Her Doc ‘Surviving the Silence’