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Regulations to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy get early nod

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

This July 3, 2019 photo shows Marge Coahran, left, of Toronto, and Scott Amspoker Albuquerque, N.M., calling to dancers during the annual International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs convention in Philadelphia. The Independence Squares were founded 30 years ago in part as a social outlet for the LGBTQ community. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Gay square dancers add new spin to centuries-old dance style

By NATALIE POMPILIO - Associated Press

In this 1972 photo provided by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center, demonstrators march through the streets during the Gay Liberation Day march in New York. Gay and lesbian demonstrations grew nationwide following the 1969 New York Police Department raid of gay patrons at The Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village. (Rudy Grillo/The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Community Center via AP)

Stonewall: How a raid and rebellion became a rights movement

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Karla Jay, a gay rights activist, author, gay and lesbian studies pioneer, prepares to interview outside The Stonewall Inn, Monday, June 3, 2019, in New York. In the wake of the 1969 uprising of gays following a New York Police Department raid at The Stonewall Inn bar, Jay was among hundreds mobilized by the nascent Gay Liberation Front who marched to the site, showing that gay people were mainstream. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Stories of Stonewall: How the LGBTQ rebellion left a legacy

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Google shutters A.I. ethics board after LGBTQs attack conservatives

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, Sandy Newcomb poses for a photograph with a rainbow flag as people gather for a mass resignation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is repealing rules unveiled in 2015 that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion. The surprise announcement Thursday, April 4, 2019, by the faith widely known as the Mormon church reverses rules that triggered widespread condemations from LGBTQ members and their allies. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons repeal ban on baptisms for children of gay parents

By Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

LGBTQ advocates dismayed but Undaunted by legislative losses

By JAYLA MARIE MCNEILL - Associated Press

Religious leaders reflect city’s LGBTQ-friendly values

By MEGAN OSBORNE - Associated Press

In this March 8, 2017, photo, Barb Halleen who is battling Parkinson's disease, spars with volunteer coach Jimmy Lyons as part of the Rock Steady Boxing program at CrossFit 309 in Peoria Heights, Ill. The Rock Steady program is growing, offering people with Parkinson's a way to push themselves to fight back against the disease by boxing. This year, they've expanded to more classes, moved into their own dedicated space at CrossFit, and just recently installed a professional boxing ring. (Fred Zwicky/Journal Star via AP) ** FILE **

CrossFit, the latest example of raging, rabid leftist intolerance

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LGBTQ group rescinds job offer to lawmaker after comment

Associated Press

In their native Uganda, a place where being gay can send you to prison, Barnabas Wobiliya, left, and Apollo Kimuli risked their lives as advocates for AIDS education and equality for the LGBTQ community. Threatened with death, both men fled and spent a year in refugee camps before resettlement in Utah. The two are now trying to build their lives here, while using the Internet to continue their activism for others in Africa's LGBTQ community. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Gay Ugandan activists rebuilding their lives in Utah

By JENNIFER DOBNER - Associated Press

Transgender at BYU: Living lives despite unclear policies

By BRALEY DODSON - Associated Press

From left, Ypsilanti City Council member Pete Murdock, Mayor Amanda Edmonds and City Council member Beth Bashert secure a transgender pride flag to the pole as they raise it during a ceremony for International Transgender Day of Visibility outside the Ypsilanti Police Department, in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Friday, March 31, 2017. (Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)

Millennials: 80 percent snowflake — 20 percent LGBTQ

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, Jan. 8, 2017. The actress, who gave an impassioned speech at the Golden Globes criticizing President-elect Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter and calling for the defense of a free press, will be honored for a career of advocating for LGBTQ equality on Feb. 11, by the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ civil rights organization. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP, File) ** FILE **

Streep, Meyers, ‘Moonlight’ to be honored at LGBTQ gala

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Matthew Vines, who is one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the National LGBTQ Task Force taking place in Denver this week, talks about how debates over issues like gay marriage often pit champions of of change against Americans of faith, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in downtown Denver. Activists such as Vines, who has written about his own experiences as a gay evangelical Christian growing up in Wichita, Kan., say the conservative attitudes that lead to such clashes need to evolve. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

National LGBTQ Task Force conference examine religion, faith

By DONNA BRYSON - Associated Press

Sarah E. Reece of Washington, D.C. with the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, left, and others listen as faith leaders speak at a rally at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill held by The Religious Institute to support the reproductive health, rights and justice community as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Affordable Care Act challenges, the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius, which mandate that private insurance plans must cover birth control, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Gay rights group changes name to reflect new focus on LGBTQs

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times