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Brittney Griner: WNBA star says she’s “never going overseas” to play basketball again

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WNBA star Brittney Griner has shut down any possibility of playing basketball overseas during a recent interview. Back in February 2022, the beloved athlete was wrongfully detained in Russia after she was accused of carrying hashish oil in her luggage. At the time, Griner was travelling to the country to spend the Phoneix Mercury off-season playing for the Russian basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg – which she had done since 2014. In the wake of her arrest, the Olympic athlete was held in a detention centre and given limited communication with…

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The cast of The L Word visit White House in honour of Lesbian Visibility Week

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The cast of the hit LGBTQ+ series The L Word celebrated Lesbian Visibility Week at the White House. On 25 April, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre held a press briefing to honour the week-long observance and discuss the continued attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by conservative lawmakers. “So this week is Lesbian Visibility Week, and as the first openly queer person to hold the position of press secretary for the President of the United States, I see every day how important visibility and representation are,” she explained to the room. Jean-Pierre…

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Monkeypox: US sets aside 50,000 vaccine doses for Pride events

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The US will provide 50,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to be administered at Pride and other events with high attendance by gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. How many are sent to each event will be determined by a number of factors, including the size of it, availability of health workers to give the injections and how many people there are considered to be at high risk of catching monkeypox. “More shots in arms is how we get the outbreak under control,” Bob Fenton, the White House…

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President Biden signs executive order to fight “hateful” anti-LGBTQ+ state bills

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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect LGBTQ+ people from laws targeting them in conservative states. The measure includes efforts to dry up funding for so-called ‘conversion therapy’ by asking federally funded programs to ensure they are not offering it. The harmful practice has been widely condemned by health experts all over the world, including the National Health Service and World Health Organisation. It also includes a request for the Federal Trade Commission to consider determining that ‘conversion therapy’ is an unfair and/or deceptive act that warrants…

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Angelica Ross calls on Joe Biden to do more than “bare minimum” for LGBTQ+ people: “We need you to act”

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Angelica Ross called on President Joe Biden and his administration to do more to “protect” America’s LGBTQ+ community. The Pose star used her 1 March LGBTQ+ State of the Union address for Logo to highlight the inequalities facing queer people in the country. “We are all living through a moment of unprecedented loss, financial hardship and sociopolitical discord,” she told viewers. “We know these issues disproportionately impact the most marginalised among us, so we need our leaders to be doing more to protect our LGBTQ+ community — but most particularly…

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21-year-old transgender non-binary man killed in California

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Poe Black, a 21-year-old transgender non-binary man, was stabbed to death in California, Niland, in March. Black was believed to be trans masculine, non-binary and a member of the Wyandotte Nation and was “mixed Indigenous”, according to PGH Lesbian. He also used the names Oliver Jackson and Legion. Black’s tragic death is at least the 28th death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2021. These stats are typically guidance as the number of transgender or gender non-conforming person missing are not fully reported. The Imperial County Sheriff’s Office…

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