August 2012
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Months of anti-gay slurs escalate into brutal... →
WARNING for images of injuries at the link, graphic description of the assault below
An Oklahoma lesbian was attacked this week after months of anti-gay slurs and verbal harassment escalated into a brutal assault.
Kayla Elliott, 29, who has been caring for her sick father in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City, said she has been harassed for months by a woman who resides in the apartment...
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Same-sex couple in [Nevada] upset with hospital's... →
On the wall of their Henderson home, Brittney Leon and Terri-Ann Simonelli proudly display their certificate of domestic partnership.
Under a 2009 state law, the document gives them all the rights of married couples.
Or so they thought.
When Leon, 26, checked into Spring Valley Hospital on July 20 with complications in her pregnancy, she assumed that her partner Simonelli, 41, could make any...
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Finding a safe space for Palestinian queer... →
In 2008, Laila was a recent college graduate and committed anti-occupation activist in her hometown of Nablus. But there was one issue her groups could not adequately address: her sexuality.
“I started testing the waters, looking at what organizations are out there, what’s the discourse,” said Laila last month in Nablus.
She researched the Haifa-based lesbian group Aswat, but that organization...
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Please help LGBT youth in Detroit. Ruth Ellis...
posttragicmulatto:
From Ruth Ellis Center Facebook Page
The Ruth Ellis Center is launching a major crowd-funding and awareness campaign, End the Chill: Where Homeless Youth Sleep this Winter, to bring aid this winter to Detroit’s homeless lesbian, gay, bi-attractional, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, many of whom live in horrifically unsafe and unsecured conditions. The funds will...
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Lesbian officers accuse D.C. police of... →
[warning for homophobic/sexual harassment and brief mention of homophobic violence, institutionalization]
The lawsuit says the alleged discrimination and harassment began in September 2006 after Weeks and Jones told one of their supervisors at the Seventh District, Sgt. Jon Podorski, that they were a couple. The two had been squad car partners since early 2006 and began a relationship in July...
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