-Mexico’s Supreme Court issues a blanket statement ruling that bans on same-sex marriages are unconstitutional. -KyivPride2015 is disrupted by neo-Nazis. -Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts attends his gay sister’s wedding. -Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declines to call a special session…
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XGW Digest: June 6, 2015
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-Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert is charged with covering up sexual misconduct with a former male student. -The Illinois state senate passes a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -A new marriage equality bill is introduced in the Australian…
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XGW Digest: May 30, 2015
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-Ireland becomes the first nation to enact marriage equality via popular vote. -Irish opponents of same-sex marriage show graciousness in defeat. -Three men are jailed in Morocco on charges of homosexuality. -Marriage equality comes to Greenland. -An anti-gay Tea Party…
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XGW Digest: May 23, 2015
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-The Nevada legislature passes an anti-bullying bill. -The Church of Scotland gives final approval to ordaining gay minsters. -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg presides over another same-sex wedding. -An anti-gay pastor is outed on Grindr. -Longtime LGBT activist William Kelley has…
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XGW Digest: May 16, 2015
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-ISIS militants have been luring gay men out of hiding in order to execute them. -Mariela Castro presides over a gay rights parade and commitment ceremony in Cuba. -The Texas legislature debates whether to defy the Supreme Court’s anticipated ruling…
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XGW Digest: May 9, 2015
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-A high school in Utah elects a transgender prom queen. -Republican Rick Santorum almost defends Bruce Jenner. -Conservative talk radio host Guy Benson comes out of the closet. -The US Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to New Jersey’s…
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XGW Digest: May 2, 2015
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-Kenya’s High Court rules that LGBT groups cannot be blocked from registering as NGOs. -Olympic champion Bruce Jenner officially comes out as transgender. -A Bengali TV star commits suicide after being pressured to break up with her girlfriend. -Ecuador’s National…
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XGW Digest: April 25, 2015
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-LGBT and immigrants’ rights activist Catherine Han Montoya is murdered in Atlanta. -The Mexican Supreme Court rules against Sinaloa state’s marriage ban. -A Manchester barman is violently assaulted by an anti-gay attacker. -A group of Pennsylvania high school students organizes…
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XGW Digest: April 18, 2015
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-An Iowa man is charged with sending a fake anthrax letter to a local gay bar. -US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy voices his opposition to conversion therapy. -Hillary Clinton hires an openly gay campaign manager. -Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signs…
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XGW Digest: April 11, 2015
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-A “religious freedom” bill dies in the Nevada legislature. -Ireland legalizes adoption by gay couples. -A Denver bakery that refused to make an anti-gay cake is cleared of discrimination charges. -A federal judge orders California to grant a transgender inmate…