Rainbow Youth Project USA
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We are a national nonprofit that advocates for the health, safety, and wellness of 2SLGBT+ young people. LɪɴᴋTʀᴇᴇ:
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We would like to take a moment to remember and honor the life of Daniel Davis Aston, 28, one of the victims who lost their lives in the shooting at Club Q on Saturday.
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🚨🚨UPDATE: Thank you sooooo much to everyone! The young man who assaulted the gay teen in Sandy, UT has been arrested. We stand strong against hate and violence but couldn’t do it without our allies around the country!
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🧵Imagine having to prepare your 8-year-old for this: Every morning, Paige walks into school in Austin, TX with a letter from her attorney in her backpack, packed with her schoolbooks and her lunch, just in case she gets stopped by CPS officers. The letter is short and to ...
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🚨🚨 Sandy, UT - A gay young man was hugging his boyfriend in front of his home. The young men in this Infiniti stopped and the one person punched the kid in the face while calling him a “fa**ot.” We need to identify this assailant. Contact Sandy, UT police. ⚠️Language⚠️
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🧵1/3 Three Black students in Southeast Georgia have filed a lawsuit against the Effingham County School District after official high school dress code bans BLM shirts and/or insignias but permits nooses and Confederate flags. ...
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Worth 2 minutes of your time. LGBTQ+ soldiers are fighting for Americans while some Americans are taking away those soldiers’ rights.
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Remembering Lucas, a 13-year-old boy who died by suicide on January 7th after facing anti-LGBTQ+ bullying at school ... a school that did little to stop the bullying.
We're sorry this world was cruel to you, precious one. We will continue this fight in your memory and honor.
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... the point: she cannot be interviewed without an attorney present. Paige is among thousands of trans children in TX whose lives have been upended since Abbott & Paxton ordered CPS to launch abuse investigations into parents who support their child’s gender transition ...
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It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of transgender rights advocate Henry Berg-Brousseau at age 24. We must stand united against hate and in our fight for transgender equality. Our hearts are broken and our love is sent to his family.
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RT if you’re an ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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... Parents who are investigated over suspected abuse can face prosecution or have their children removed from their home. Many families with a trans child live in fear, daily, and the resulting psychological damage to all is something we see in crisis contacts.
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One of the teens in our mental health program told his counselor - "I don't have any allies other than my parents." Can we show him that YES, he has plenty of allies? Just drop a GIF or meme for him and I promise, I'll share them with him!
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❤️1/2 Girl Scout sells entire cookie inventory after drag queens and other LGBTQIA+ patrons rush her stand: "Everyone was so friendly and kind." Siena, a 7-year-old, who is a Daisy (Girl Scouts ages 5-7) was looking for "high traffic, low competition." She certainly found it.
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Temecula students walk out in opposition to forced outing policy and against the banning of flags.
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Young people are so amazing. This young man was bullied at his previous school. The students at his new school, La Vergne High School (TN), made a gesture of kindness that will never be forgotten. Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
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1/3 Moms for Liberty, the far-right parental group known for protesting at school board meetings, has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group" for the first time ever.
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1/2. We need more of this - “The US Attorney for the District of Colorado announced that Sharon Robinson, age 40, of NY has been arrested and charged in an indictment by a federal grand jury with making multiple threatening calls to LGBTQ businesses in Denver and Glendale …
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Fairness Campaign’s Chris Hartman speaks facts to the KY Senate Education Committee about the dramatic and alarming increase in suicidal ideation within the young LGBTQIA+ community resulting from hate bills. We struggle every day to find resources for these young people.
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1/2. The Chino Valley USD had police escort a student out of the board meeting when she stood up to misinformation - the board said “transgender is a mental illness” as they passed a policy requiring that school staff “out” any LGBTQ+ student.
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Tucker Carlson is afraid gun-toting trans people will start “political violence” - "They want to be able to commit it and they want you defenseless so you can't fight back."
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Biden hosts biggest-ever Pride Month event at the White House - “I want to send a message to the entire community especially to transgender children. You aren’t alone. You are heard. You are understood." By
@Chris_Kane_
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Why do we go to Florida? For the same reasons
@Lizzo
went to Tennessee. Why would [we] not go where people need to hear the message the most? We have to give LGBTQ+ young people a safe space and a message of support, encouragement, and love.
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After a targeted campaign by far-right transphobic/homophobic groups & individuals aimed at The North Face, for its LGBTQ+ ‘Summer of Pride’ advertising, the Denver-based company responded affirming its commitment to LGBTQ+ and allied consumers.
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BREAKING: Just moments ago, the U.S. Department of Education informed Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Kelley Robinson that the department will open an investigation in response to HRC’s letter regarding Owasso Public Schools and its failure to respond appropriately to…
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We mourn the loss of Kayleigh Scott. On Monday morning at 2:28 am, she posted to Facebook and Instagram: “As I take my final breaths and exit this living earth, I would like to apologize to everyone I let down. I am so sorry I could not be better.”
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Students at Atherton High School walked out today in peaceful protest of Kentucky’s anti-LGB and anti-Transgender laws.
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Ashton, who is 13-years old, posted this video just in case “something happens” to him as a result of anti-trans hate. Think about that. He wanted all of us to know about him just in case. Wake up, allies. You are needed.
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Oklahoma City remembering Nex Benedict.
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🧵🚨Homeland Security Alert🚨 The Department of Homeland Security issued a terror threat bulletin today warning that domestic extremists have posted online praise for the fatal shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado earlier this month. and have called for copycat attacks.
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A judge on the Brooklyn Surrogate’s Court who said that “being gay is an abomination to mankind” has agreed to resign from the bench. Her comments were vile, hateful, and almost unbelievable -
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This is the perpetrator of this hate crime.
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When Andreas Wijk played a new song for his parents that he just wrote and recorded, he wasn’t sure how they would react. Millions of kids could say the same thing about coming out to their mom and dad, but Wijk — a 29-year-old singer famous in Sweden since he was 15 — was doing…
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Harassment and threats of violence against LGBTQIA+ young people and adults continue. This threat is from OK. We will not be silent. Stand up. Be loud. Make your allyship known and make it known that ⬇️ will NOT be tolerated. 🚨Threats of Violence🚨
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Remembering and honoring Nex Benedict, 16. We’re sorry this world was so cruel to you, precious one. We will continue this fight.
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♥️♥️♥️ SAN DIEGO
San Diego to open 45 bed LGBTQ youth homeless shelter
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The mother of a gay 13-year-old speaks with honesty, from the heart, about the bullying her child faces every day in his TN school as a direct result of the Republican political rhetoric. She’s right - do better.
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Matthew Shepard, the gay U of WY student who was murdered in a 1998 anti-gay hate crime while tied to a fence outside Laramie, WY, was honored at a ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, which would have been Matthew's 46th birthday. (Judy & Dennis Shepard with the portrait)
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LGBTQIA+ youth are perfect just the way they are and deserve a welcoming, accepting, and inclusive learning environment.
#SayGayAnyway
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Surely you can help this beautiful one get a few “Merry Christmas” replies. ♥️♥️ (mali_and_brea on TikTok)
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Two families with transgender teens and two physicians sued the state of Alabama on Monday to overturn a law that makes it a crime for doctors to treat trans youth under 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to help affirm their gender identity.
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Proud Boys plan to attack Pride celebrations nationwide. Their counter-offensive is dubbed “Proud” month, a celebration of “straight pride” and “Western values” meant to provoke violence … and “challenge this perversion of nuclear family and gender …”
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Reba slams TN for its anti-drag legislation saying “kids need protection from poverty, not drag queens.”
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1/3 Sadly, earlier today, Travis, a 17-yr-old gay teen, chose to leave this world. His loving & supportive family needs help paying for his final expenses (burial plot, funeral services, headstone, etc). If you'd like to help them, use one of the two links below to do so.
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Nothing to add to this video. It’s amazing.
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1/3 Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill that legally erases trans and nonbinary identities in the state - even as his own nonbinary and gay son David Gianforte pleaded with him not to.
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TX has huge problems. Child Protective Services chastised by court for prostituting children in the foster system and one CPS staff member told a hungry child to “turn tricks” in exchange for food. But TX is all about protecting children?
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Congratulations to Anthony Rapp and fiancé Ken Ithipol. The out actor who debuted on Broadway in 1981 in The Little Prince and the Aviator, now welcomes a little prince of his own.
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U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Sides with Transgender Refugee, Affirming Her Identity in Historic Ruling.
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His mother, KY state Sen. Karen Berg said, he “long struggled with mental illness, not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance," His cause of death was suicide, she said.
Please reach out for help if you or someone you love is struggling.
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🧵1/5 Pennsylvania school librarian ordered to remove a quote from activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel because it ran afoul of a new policy on “advocacy activities.”
Librarian Matt Pecic of Central Bucks School District outside of Philadelphia was told to take ...
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What is same-sex couples talked to heterosexual couples the way they talk to them —
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3/3 Students were told the Confederate flag represents “heritage, not hate,” whereas BLM is "disruptive." The lawsuit further alleges that a white student was permitted by school administrators to wear a full Hitler costume during spirit week.
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In a world of hateful evangelicals - be an Amy Grant. “Nothing about who we are or what we’ve done. That’s why to me it’s so important to set a welcome table, because I was invited to a table where someone said, ‘Don’t be afraid, you’re loved.’ Gay. Straight. It does not matter.”
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The Arizona Supreme Court has handed down one of the most disgusting decisions possible - The Court ruled that the Mormon Church can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they…
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2/2 Siena — along with her mom Jen, her 4-year-old sister Riley and her aunt Julie — sold out of all their inventory, TWICE. Thanks to the support of the local LGBTQIA+ community, who Siena says are also "really good tippers."
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1/4. NEW HAMPSHIRE
Trans-youth leaps to death off overpass in New Hampshire -
Multiple sources alleged that bullying/transphobia factored into the death although the Blade has been unable to verify any of those claims.
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2/3 In one instance, a Black student wearing a BLM t-shirt was banned from attending a football game, whereas a white student was permitted entry while wearing a shirt that read “Stomp on My Flag; I’ll Stomp Your A**.” ...
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We wish Republicans could be as upset over children being shot in schools or LGBTQIA+ young people attempting suicide every 45 seconds as they are over the FBI executing a search warrant at Mar-A-Lago. No one is above the law in America. Not even a former president.
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1/3 Let’s look at facts: Gender-affirming care for minors does not include surgical procedures except in very rare cases and is almost always limited to a 16+ person following intensive mental and medical assessments.
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Please keep in mind that minors view our account. Many of them are battling bullying and harassment, and some are struggling with suicidal ideation.
Every morning I spend at least an hour trying to hide hateful content, homophobic and transphobic slurs, and misinformation from…
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1/4. Saticoy Elementary School went through 3 days of protests over a reading of “The Great Big Book of Families.” Jackie Goldberg, President of LAUSD, addressed the matter in a passionate and factual way.
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A librarian in Jamestown Township, MI snaps out on conservative Christians protesting library. These "christians" posted signs around town - "Librarians Are Pedophiles" - because of 90 LGBTQIA+ books in a collection of 67,000. The library/staff have been under constant threats.
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No one stepped in to stop 2 boys, one who appears to be older, brutally beating a third-grade girl. Apparently, the child has suffered from significant bullying for a while. The mother pressed charges against the alleged perpetrators.
Schools must do more to end bullying.
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Sending our love, prayers, and condolences to Kayley’s family in Texas. Kayley was an amazing 15-year-old and a blessing to our Rainbow Youth family. We are truly heartbroken. Please keep this family in your hearts as they grieve this tremendous loss.
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♥️Happy Pride from around the world ♥️
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Meet
@Foundation451
- The mission of Foundation 45l is to get banned and challenged books directly into the hands of students, and to heighten awareness of the need for a plurality of ideas especially in the arts and literature to build a society that truly honors freedom,…
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🏳️🌈Every 45 seconds an LGBTQIA+ youth attempts suicide
🏳️⚧️48% of LGBTQ / 60% of trans & nonbinary youth engaged in self-harm in the past twelve months
We continue to offer no cost mental health counseling to LGBTQ young people. Please help us, help them.
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“Tell Me, Ray.” An original song performed by John Wayne Hatfield. His audition for American Idol airs tonight and tells the story of his grandpa - a story we want to share with you. ♥️
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Idaho GOP lawmakers introduce legislation to criminalize those who administer COVID vaccines. Sen. Tammy Nichols and Rep. Judy Boyle sponsored introduced the bill in the House Health & Welfare Committee. According to the bill text, "A person may not provide or administer a…
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2/2. According to allegations in the indictment, the defendant called at least four businesses catering to the LGBTQ community just a few weeks after the tragic shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs.”
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Trans flight attendant made famous in United ad dies by suicide - She shared her story for United Airlines on Trans Visibility Day in 2020.
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Remembering 14-year-old Maya "Marshall" Pickard. Rest in peace, precious one. We're sorry this world was so cruel to you.
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15 months ago, this amazing teen was forced into homelessness when rejected by her family solely because she came out as lesbian. Her courage, bravery, and determination are remarkable. She is now preparing for her freshman year in a BSN (nursing) program starting in January! ♥️
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Brianna was a much-loved daughter, granddaughter, and baby sister” her family said. Friends remember her as an “outgoing, confident girl. She brought a lot of laughter to those who knew her.” Rest in peace, precious one. We continue our fight against hate in your memory.
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A school district in Nebraska is getting sued after it shut down a high school newspaper, allegedly in retaliation for the newspaper publishing an edition on LGBTQ+ issues.
“It is hard to find words for what it felt like watching people who were supposed to be supporting our…
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Jakob Lavicky addressed Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters and his board earlier today. 51% of LGBTQ+ young people reaching out to our crisis center specifically name Walters as one of the reasons for their distress.
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Texas church launches program to help fund transgender kids’ healthcare -
A Texas church has chosen a radically different path from many denominations nationwide. Instead of demonizing LGBTQ+ people, the Galileo Church in Fort Worth has opted to support and welcome the…
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🚨1/3 Zachary Leard, a 31-year-old gay man, was found shot to death in the parking lot of Blue Vine apartment complex in San Antonio, TX this past Tuesday. This crime happened in broad daylight and is a suspected hate crime involving a social media dating app ...
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Due to the increased risk of violence and/or harassment of our Community at Pride events, Rainbow Youth Project is heeding the advice of officials and cancelling our Youth Pride events. Be proud and loud every day but be diligent in personal safety. (MD)
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1/5 How did one 17-year-old child suddenly become the victim of constant and often violent harassment resulting in over 18 restraining orders, virtual home imprisonment, serious thoughts of suicide, and a forced relocation? She came out as a lesbian ...
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Pay attention - GA court rules that conversion therapy is “free speech.” Conversion therapy is psychological and emotional torture for LGBTQIA+ people, especially young people, and should be outlawed.
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A new Kansas law requires the state to reverse any previous gender changes in its records for trans people's birth certificates and driver's licenses while also preventing such changes going forward, the state's conservative Republican attorney general declared Monday.
Attorney…
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Black transgender woman Jasmine “Star” Mack, 36, was stabbed to death over the weekend in Washington, D.C., the first reported violent death of a trans person in the U.S. in 2023. Her death has been classified as a homicide.
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1/2. Today at the Oklahoma State Capital - community came together to demand justice for Nex Benedict and all students suffering from bullying in OK schools. The crowd also called for the removal of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters.
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1/4 Lance Preston, the founder & executive director of Rainbow Youth Project said that today, June 20th, between 10:45AM - 8:30PM, the crisis team responded to 376 acute mental health crises involving LGBTQ+ young people, between 14-19, from TN and KY.
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Moms for Liberty targeted a Rainbow Youth Project family and almost cost them their son’s life. They target “teachers, administrators, parents, and school board members, orchestrating harassment campaigns that have left people fearing for their safety …”
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An elderly woman came to discuss her neighbor’s pride flag and sign supporting LGBTQ people and abortion rights. Her words are both amazing and powerful. No one should ever be afraid to be an ally but our current culture makes it difficult. Thank you for being an ally.
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Pride flag burned at elementary school where protests continue -
“We have a real concern over what is going on. We have three teachers who are LGBTQ at that campus. And two parents are LGBTQ”
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1/4 Gay man brutally beaten by attackers shouting anti-LGBTQ+ slur - Greg Breidenbach was brutally beaten in Miami’s Coconut Grove last week says he was targeted because of his sexuality. Quoted from:
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KETTERING, OH – The student body of Kettering Fairmont High School in this an inner suburb of Dayton, Ohio made history by crowning two LGBTQ+ students, seniors Dai’sean Conley and Rosie Green, as prom king and queen. What followed next was heated debate, acrimonious social media…
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Rainbow Youth Project is devastated. We publicly honor and remember Ryan to show the world how hate, bigotry, and bullying impact young lives. Please keep Ryan's family in your hearts. They loved and supported him with everything they had.
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Congratulations! ♥️ is ♥️ — Former Major League Baseball pitcher TJ House, who played for Cleveland and the Blue Jays, has come out and announced his engagement to his boyfriend Ryan Neitzel.
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