LGBT rights

Buck is a wealthy white man with "a predatory and injurious system of soliciting black men and watching them cling to life," according to a lawsuit filed by the family of another man who overdosed at his house in 2017.

"The history of drag is a long and winding road," Doonan told Newsweek about the history of drag.

"Duka and Koski's beliefs about same-sex marriage may seem old-fashioned, or even offensive to some. But the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion are not only for those who are deemed sufficiently enlightened, advanced, or progressive."

"I'm deeply hurt and offended that someone felt the entitlement to ruin and tamper with personal property with hate speech," said Renee Gerrish.

"After a lifetime of being at war with my gender I've decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out," Smith said after announcing their gender pronouns to be "they/them."

"I do not choose whether I am a black American... the great vast majority of the psychological community says homosexuality at a very minimum is a choice," Pence said in the early 1990s.

According to Marilyn Synek of the Nebraska Family Alliance, the employee shouted, "You are f****** bigoted trash, and we do not want you in our restaurant."

Church United founder James Domen claims his ministry "helps pastors counsel others that are on their own journey toward a heterosexual identity."

"It is clear conversion therapy targeting people who are LGBT is rooted solely in discrimination and hate without any scientific evidence," one expert told Newsweek.

"We don't hate anyone, we just want to have our own celebration just like everybody else has a right to," John Hugo, a Straight Pride organizer, said.

"I don't know if maybe she's lacking physical touch from me, and so she's going to get it from somewhere else, but I don't think that that's fair."

A note addressed to the mother of Callum Hodge claimed it was "the consensus of the village" that he and his partner should have their wedding reception "far, far away from the village."

"Hatred will not stop us—it shows us more and more that we need to stand taller, shout louder and love harder," read a statement from the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada.

"I see this cookbook as more of a memoir, something I can't say I ever imagine myself being asked to compose."

The announcement of a religious-freedom bill comes three months after rugby player Israel Folau was fired for claiming "Hell awaits" gay people.

Members of the Future Farmers of America reportedly shouted slurs at attendees and followed them into the parking lot of Frontier High School in Bakersfield, California.

Washington, who was famously let go from the ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy" for using a homophobic slur, told Fox News on Wednesday why he left the Democratic party.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has argued gays and lesbians can be cured and find "wholeness in their newfound heterosexuality."

Supporters of the funeral home that fired Aimee Stephens are taking the Supreme Court case a step further—by trying to prove that we do not, or should not, exist at all.

"We beseech you to rectify this situation immediately, promoting inclusion and equity instead of hatred and intolerance."

Police are gearing up for potential conflict between straight demonstrators and counter-protesters.

Larry Johnson warned of the NFL and the NBA's "effeminate agenda" in a series of tweets. Johnson has been arrested multiple times for violence against women.

Peter Meijer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan, canceled a performance by the group Drag Syndrome because people with Down syndrome are "special souls" who need to be "protected."

The college president called the parade a "perversion" and an "affront to the wonderfully pied beauty of our affirming and diverse commonwealth of learning."

"Really I have to stay focused."

In 2009, Phillip Todd Wilson tried to ban books with "homosexual content" from the Montgomery County High School.

"LGBTQ issues have been largely left out of the 2020 presidential primary conversation so far," said GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis. "This forum will bring these important topics to a national audience for the first time in this election cycle."

Jerri Ann Henry, the first female executive director of the organization, resigned after the LGBT Republican group endorsed Donald Trump.

The community "is standing together to reject this group and what they represent," said Max Reed of the Modesto Non-Violent Collective.

Performers had already begun withdrawing from "From Chopin to Gershwin," sponsored by an organization with ties to Gazeta Polska, a Polish magazine claiming the LGBT rights movement has "all the features of a totalitarian ideology."