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President Joe Biden, right, hugs Elton John at the grand opening ceremony for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Friday, June 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Biden marks 55th anniversary of Stonewall riots, commemorates opening of monument

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A woman soldier wrapped in the LGBT flag attends a Pride march in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 16, 2024. Several hundred LGBT Ukrainian servicemen and other protesters joined the pride march in central Kyiv Sunday seeking legal reforms to allow people in same-sex partnerships to take medical decisions for wounded soldiers and bury victims of the war with Russia that extended across Ukraine more than two years ago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

LGBTQ soldiers in Ukraine hope their service is changing attitudes as they rally for legal rights

By Derek Gatopoulos and Alex Babenko - Associated Press

Dylan Mulvaney arrives at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the United Palace theater in New York. Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Friday, June 30 she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” over her partnership with the beer giant. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

Dylan Mulvaney is a man, and no ‘Woman of the Year’ award changes that

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Orden David poses for a portrait, in St. John's, Antigua, Monday, May 15, 2023. David took his Caribbean nation's government to court over its anti-sodomy law and won in 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Meet the LGBTQ activist who challenged his Caribbean country’s anti-sodomy law and won

By Luis Andres Henao - Associated Press

People dance during the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

LGBT advocates seek to soften Pride Month in response to backlash

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens during a news conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden condemns wave of state legislation to restrict LGBTQ+ rights, says ‘these are our kids’

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Kirk Cameron reads his illustrated children's book "Pride Comes Before The Fall," published by Brave Books, at the Seattle Public Library on May 27, 2023. Photo courtesy Amplifi Agency.

Kirk Cameron’s book on dangers of ‘pride’: ‘It’s not anti-gay, it’s pro-humility’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on the LGBTQ religion by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LGBTQ’s false religion paints in rainbow colors of sexual anarchy and criminalization of dissent

By Robert Knight

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media during a press conference at Christopher Columbus High School on Monday, March 27, 2023, in Miami. The press conference was held to announce DeSantis' signing of a private school voucher expansion, HB1, which allows more Florida school children to become eligible for taxpayer-funded school vouchers. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Florida, facing LGBTQ siege, is now the refuge for the sane

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity as they stage a rare protest against Uganda's tough stance against homosexuality and in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya on Feb. 10, 2014. Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday, March 21, 2023 prescribing jail terms of up to 10 years for offenses related to same-sex relations, responding to popular sentiment but piling more pressure on the East African country's LGBTQ community. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Uganda LGBTQ leader says gay bill threatens homelessness

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

FILE - A Ugandan man is seen during the third Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride celebrations in Entebbe, Uganda on Aug. 9, 2014. Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday, March 21, 2023 prescribing jail terms of up to 10 years for offenses related to same-sex relations, responding to popular sentiment but piling more pressure on the East African country's LGBTQ community. (AP Photo/Rebecca Vassie, File)

‘Deeply troubling’: UN rights chief on Uganda anti-gay bill

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Yuichi Kamiya, Executive Director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation, speaks during a press conference Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Tokyo. Japanese LGBTQ people and rights groups hold a news conference to protest what they say are discriminatory remarks made by top aides of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. They demand his government enact an equality law before G-7 summit. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

LGBTQ groups demand Japan adopt equal rights law by G-7

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Flowers bloom in front of the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, on Aug. 4, 2015, in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, came out in support of The Respect for Marriage Act under consideration in Congress after years of opposing recognition of same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon Church backs ‘Respect for Marriage Act,’ writing same-sex nuptials into federal law

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, photo, Jake Hogan lip-syncs through a number of short musical numbers as Nancy Raygun, his drag queen persona during a number of spirited performances by drag queens and kings at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that last week’s show was held as part of a discussion about drag culture and the LGBTQ community. Performers danced and sang and also answered questions about what taking part in the show meant to them. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) **FILE**

Halloween drag events for children spark threats, protests

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold banners that read, &quot;Law for the development of the spirit and moral&quot; and &quot;LGBTQ, remove your dirty hand from our children&quot; during an anti LGBTQ protest in Fatih district of Istanbul, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Turkey: Anti-LGBTQ display reflects nation’s political shift

By Zeynep Bilginsoy and Robert Badendieck - Associated Press

Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried speaks during an interview, April 21, 2022, at the Phillip &amp; Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

DeSantis rival to emerge from high-stakes Florida primary

By Adriana Gomez Licon, Steve Peoples and Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

A supporter of the Philippine LGBT (Lesbians Gays Bisexual Transgender) group poses before the rainbow flag during the annual celebration of &quot;Pride March&quot; June 30, 2018, in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines. Singapore’s announcement Sunday, Aug. 22, 2022, that it would decriminalize sex between men is being hailed as a step in the right direction for LGBTQ rights in the Asia-Pacific region, a vast area of nearly 5 billion people with different laws and attitudes. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

End of Singapore’s gay sex ban is small step in Asia-Pacific

Associated Press

In this Sunday, June 11, 2017, file photo, Equality March for Unity and Pride participants march past the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

D.C. middle school gets $10,000 grant for LGBTQ club, books, mural

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A drag queen who goes by the name Flame poses for a picture with Thomas Delattre, 2, during a Drag Story Hour at a public library in New York, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Sexualized, trans Pride Month events divide LGBTQ advocates

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A 100-foot section of the Key West Sea to Sea Diversity flag is carried down Duval Street in Key West, Florida, on Sunday, June 5, 2022. The flag, which originally measured 1.25 miles, was created by activist Gilbert Baker and stretched the length of Duval Street from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico during Key West Pridefest in 2003. (Rob O'Neal/The Key West Citizen via AP)

LGBTQ advocates say small kids need Pride Month drag events, gender talks

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times