lead story - Detroit man charged in deaths of gay men, transgender woman

AP
FOX News

Detroit, MI (1942)

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Kansas - Retiring After 28 Years, Transgender North High Teacher Looks Forward To Next Chapter

Carla Eckels
KMUW

Wichita, KS

Wichita North High School

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lead story - Dallas LGBTQ leaders could hold key to solving transgender killings, police say

Karma Allen
ABC News

Dallas, TX

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civil rights - Fifty Years After Stonewall, the Real Fight for LBGTQ Rights Is Local

Alex Myers
Common Dreams

Stonewall riots, 1969

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Ohio - Families call for better school practices to battle suicide rates among transgender teens

Lisa Rantala
ABC News

Cleveland, OH

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lead story - Trump's transgender ban is cruel, medically unethical and damaging to the US military

Robert H. Goldstein
USA Today

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

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Donald Trump - Ex-Trump aide Hicks agrees to give campaign documents to Congress

Steve Holland, David Morgan
AOL

Hope Hicks

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France - Paris court sentences man to six months for assaulting transgender woman

Press
France 24

Paris, France

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ezs note:  Gee, I hope the judge wasn't being too harsh on the poor guy.

Riiiiiight.

civil rights - WHY ARE TRANS WOMEN DYING IN ICE DETENTION?

Jack Herrera
PacificStandard

civil rights march, ca. 1957

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Utah - Scott D. Pierce: CNN episode focuses on LDS and LGBTQ in Utah. And, no, it’s not a hit piece.

Scott D. Pierce

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake City, UT

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lead story - 'We are concerned': Dallas police chief says of second transgender woman's death in less than a month

Janelle Griffith
NBC News

Dallas, TX

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ezs note:  If you live in Dallas or the immediate area, and you have information on the murders of either Chynal Lindsey or Muhlaysia Booker, please call Dallas police at 214-671-3661.  Thanks. 

Donald Trump - 2 epically cringeworthy moments from Jared Kushner’s Axios interview

Aaron Rupar
Vox

ezs note:  Jared Kushner, being all intrepid n' shit.

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Estonia - Estonia’s five best Eurovision finalists – chosen by the LGBT community

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Estonian World

Tallinn, Estonia

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civil rights - The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

Emily Todd VanDerWerff
Vox

Los Angeles, CA

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New Hampshire - A Conversation With Transgender Granite Staters

Press
NHPR

Concord, NH

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ezs note:  Please take note of the conversation streaming, almost an hour.  It's well worth it.  

lead story - Transgender asylum seeker dies after six weeks in ICE custody

Ben Kesslen
NBC News

El Salvador

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civil rights - ACLU again sues state over transgender-related services

Michaela Ramm
The Neighbor

Iowa

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Washington (state) - Bainbridge to consider 'all gender' bathroom sign ordinance

Nathan Pilling
Kitsap Sun

Bainbridge Island, WA 

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lead story - Biden: Fastest way to end transgender violence 'is to end the Trump administration'

Caroline Kelly
CNN

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lead story - TRUMP PRAISES ‘LGBT’ PRIDE MONTH, BUT IS CRITICIZED FOR ADMINISTRATION'S TREATMENT OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

Scott McDonald
Newsweek

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North Carolina - The man in the maternity ward

Anna Douglas
The Charlotte Observer

Charlotte, NC

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lead story - LBGTQ icons will be the first transgender people to get statues in the US

Lauren M. Johnson
CNN

Marsha P. Johnson

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