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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...

Attorney: Transgender Georgia inmate sexually assaulted again

Ashley Diamond, the transgender Georgia inmate who filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), says that she has been sexually assaulted again.The revelation comes following...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 4

1. Katie Couric sits down with Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff at the center of the same-sex marriage case that was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.2. The Atlantic has an interesting piece on how the Sout...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, May 14

1. The engineer at the center of the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia has been identified as gay activist Brandon Bostian. The NTSB says Bostian caused the train to derail by slamming on the emergency brakes as the...

Transgender Georgia inmate transferred over safety concerns

Ashley Diamond, the transgender Georgia inmate who filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections, has been transferred to a medium security prison following several incidents with fellow...

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

Health Dept. Proposes Removing Data Collection on LGBTQ Foster Kids

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Affect Naval Academy

Same-Sex Couples More Likely To Be Denied a Loan, Study Says

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Converse Releases New Pride and Trans Pride Sneakers

Frank Ocean Reveals He’s Been in a Relationship for Three Years

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