WV transgenders now have more freedom with driver’s licenses

Chelsea Spears
WOWKtv.com

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Conservative Baylor University drops 'homosexual acts' from misconduct code

Jon Herskovitz
Reuters

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Miss Global PH bet: I am a hermaphrodite (Philippines)

Robert R. Requintina
Tempo

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Transgender barbershop in Vancouver needs public's help to launch (Canada)

Lauren Sundstrom
Vancitybuzz

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ezs note:  If you have an extra fiver in your pocket, please help out Big Bro's Barber Shop.  It's a place to have your hair cut, just to chat, or find a good job.  It's a good place!

LGBT Community Prepares For Next Step In Gay Rights Battle

SHELBY LIN ERDMAN
wabe

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Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America's outsiders (UK)

Jane Little
BBC

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Gay marriage opponents propose 2 Colorado ballot measures

Press
ABC7

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ezs note:  Coloradans - please take a moment and tell your representative to flush these stupid bills down the toilet by voting NO!  Thanks. (Oh, and e-mail or phone your friends to do the same.)

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Girl Scouts’ inspiring example of moral courage

Leonard Pitts Jr.
The Desert Sun

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For This Transgender Third-Grader, Life As A Boy Is Liberating

Yasmeen Kahn

KUNC

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Hillary Rodham Clinton slams Republican presidential rivals

Press
Sentinel Republic

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Former Nayland student honoured by Queen for community work (New Zealand)

Charles Anderson
Nelson Mail

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59-year-old transgender politician shot dead at her Ghaziabad house (India)

Express News Service
The Indian Express

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ezs note: If you travel to or live in Ghaziabad (just next to New Delhi) please contact the police immediately!  Bring this killer to justice. Rest in peace, Daya.

Transgender members in district hail special initiative to get Aadhaar cards (India)

TNN
Times of India

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Tokyo, Japan

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Why the Girls Scouts Turned Down a $100,000 Donation

Krystal Steinmetz
Money Talks News

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ezs note:  Thank you so much!  The lives of girls and transgender girls are being made so much fuller.  To raise funds even more, click the hotbutton "Indiegogo fundraising campaign" and you will be transferred over.  Thanks! 

It May Be Getting Easier for Kids to Come Out to Their Parents

Michael Schramm
takepart.com

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ezs note:  If you are an ally, please take a moment to let your voice be heard!  Look for the little megaphone on the takepart.com blog, then press it.  It's that easy! Thanks.

U.S.-based church votes to support LGBTI Africans

Colin Stewart

Erasing 76 Crimes

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After A Mormon Contributor Objects, The Federalist Admits Its Anti-Transgender Policies

Zack Ford
Think Progress

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New App Helps Trans People Find Trans-Friendly Doctors

Heather Dockray

Good

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Bangladeshi hijras angry over gender testing for government positions

Aljazeera/AFP
Aljazeera America

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STORIES AND PORTRAITS OF SWIMMERS FEATURED IN FEARLESS: PORTRAITS OF LGBT ATHLETES

Lauren Neidigh
Swim Swam

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Some counties still not issuing licenses to same-sex couples

Associated Press
Columbia Daily Tribune

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Immigration detention center expands in Southern California

Amy Taxin
paradisepost.com

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Homosexuality an unspeakable taboo in Zimbabwe, Minister (UK)

Press
New Zimbabwe

Lessons on for Cops on Transgenders (India)

Archana Ravi

The New Indian Express

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Mormon church donates to Utah LGBT center

Press
ctpost.com

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Episcopalians to vote on allowing gay marriage in churches

Press
News-Sentinel.com

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Tales from Gay Lives (India)

Reema Moudgil

The New Indian Express

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Feds Set New Policies for LGBT Detainees

Julián Aguilar

The Texas Tribune

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Watch: How you can be a better ally to trans people (UK)

Megan Boyanton
Pink News

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Gay Army General Reflects on Supreme Court's Historic Ruling

Bryant Jordan
military.com

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ND unlikely to extend anti-discrimination protection to gays

James Macpherson
SFGate

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ezs note:  Residents of North Dakota - if you share the same residence as one of the state legislators listed above, give 'em a piece of your mind!  If they seem particularly snotty, well, you can run...

John Oliver blasts some of the most harmful myths about transgender people

German Lopez
Vox

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Mrs. & Mrs.

Annie Garau
Indiana Daily Student

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Watching Pride as a Former Evangelical

Brea Tremblay
The Daily Beast

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Istanbul Police Use Water Cannon, Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas on LGBT Marchers

Ashley Fantz, Gul Tuysuz and Arwa Damon
FOX2

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For Mennonites, Question Of LGBT Membership Yields Few Easy Answers

Emily Reddy
KUNC

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54 Black LGBT Personalities Express Their Sentiments Over Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Passing

Waddie G.
The G-list

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Gay rights advocates set to take on bias in jobs, housing

Erik Eckholm
The Boston Globe

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Walkertown, North Carolina

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Like to do a little light reading?

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please press:  Supreme Court of the United States decision

ezs note:  For most of you, yesterday's decision was a happy one, but one which you needn't pore over the minutiae. Life's happy, so why bother?  But for geeks and geekettes like me, it is worth it.  And, really, you should give it a good read, both majority opinion and dissent.  This is our Magna Carta.  This is our Declaration of Independence. This is our Gettysburg Address. This is our Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Read it, and read it with pride.

ALL 50 STATES!!! HOORAY!!!

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ezs note:  Think about that.  Every lesbian.  Every gay.  Every bisexual. Every transgender.

We are all equal now!!!

And there is nothing that dingbat Scalia can do about it now!!!

Thank you, friends.

Continuance granted in murder case against man accused in transgender woman's death

Ashley Slayton
KPLC

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Bangkok University introduces gender-inclusive uniform policy

Tanaz Ahmed
USA Today

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Augusta Pride Charts Progress, Growth

Renetta DuBose
WJBF.com

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Anchorage LGBT flag vandalized for third time in year

Press
KTOO

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Obama Tells Off White House Heckler During LGBT Pride Reception — Video

Christopher Rogers
Hollywood Life

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Report Finds Transgender Students In New York Face Harassment

Maya Rhodan
TIME

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HIV-Positive Transgender Women Going Without Medications, Basic Needs

Jacqueline Gray
MD

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ezs note:  Pleeease... get tested, and, if positive, take your medication regularly.  And eat three nutritious meals daily. Even though we've never met, I care about you!

Transgender troops attending White House LGBT Pride event

Press
Air Force Times Flightlines

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