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23.06.2022 / 02:35

Safety measures in place for Pride, officials say

The increased activities of white nationalists and other right-wing extremists around the country, and particularly recently here in the Bay Area, has San Francisco Pride event organizers and authorities thinking of security at this year's event a little more earnestly than in previous years. Kids attending a drag queen storytime at the San Lorenzo public library in the East Bay were confronted by right-wing protesters June 11, as alleged members of the Proud Boys barged in and harassed drag queen Panda Dulce as she was reading to the children.

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16.06.2022 / 00:55

Pulse victims remembered

In San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood June 12, Indigenous dancers performed at the remembrance ceremony for the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. This year marked the sixth anniversary of the 2016 massacre that saw 49 people die and more than 50 others injured.

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13.06.2022 / 05:27

6 North Texans among 31 white supremacists arrested in Coeur d’Alene

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02.06.2022 / 20:11

How Lisa Vanderpump, Carson Kressley, Billy Porter and More Stars Are Celebrating Pride in 2022

Celebrating love! Lisa Vanderpump, Carson Kressley and more stars are going all out for Pride this year.

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ebar.com

17.02.2022 / 01:50

50 years in 50 weeks: 2016: Pulse tragedy

It was a sunny day in the Bay Area on Sunday, June 12, 2016 when news broke that there was a terrible mass shooting inside Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Within hours, spontaneous vigils were held in San Francisco, Oakland, and numerous other cities to mourn the loss of 49 mostly gay Latino lives and the 53 others who were injured.

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queerty.com

09.11.2021 / 20:41

WATCH: Vandal sets fire to Pulse Memorial in Orlando

Pulse Memorial, a monument to the 49 victims of the 2016 nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida.The onePulse Foundation–the group responsible for curating the site–released a video over the weekend that shows a man in a wheelchair setting the fire. Flags, posters, photos, banners, and messages were all damaged in the arson.“On October 12 around 8:30 p.m.

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09.11.2021 / 17:59

Released footage shows arsonist setting fire to Pulse nightclub memorial

In a video released by the onePULSE foundation, a figure in a wheelchair and wearing a baseball cap is seen setting fire to the memorial dedicated to the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. The arson incident occurred on October 12, but the onePULSE foundation has just released the security footage […]

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advocate.com

08.11.2021 / 21:03

Pulse Memorial Set on Fire by Unidentified Vandal

Pulse Memorial in Orlando, Fla. by setting it on fire and then fleeing the scene.

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metroweekly.com

04.10.2021 / 13:53

Florida high school crowns first transgender homecoming queen

Olympia High School in Orlando, Fla., has crowned its first transgender homecoming queen.Evan Bialosuknia, a 17-year-old senior, ran her campaign on social media with help from the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance.“Every year, a beautiful girl wins homecoming queen, and that’s how it always is,” told CBS News.

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nytimes.com

21.06.2021 / 04:13

V.A. Plans to Offer Gender-Affirming Surgeries for Transgender Veterans

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer gender confirmation surgery to transgender veterans, Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, announced over the weekend at a Pride event in Orlando, Fla., in a major shift in available care for former service members. “This process will require changing V.A.’s regulations and establishing policy that will ensure the equitable treatment and safety of transgender veterans,” Mr.

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gscene.com

14.06.2021 / 12:27

Biden marks the 5th anniversary of the Pulse shooting

US president Joe Biden has vowed to make the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a national memorial, as he commemorated the 5th anniversary of the attack which killed 49 people and left a further 53 suffering from injuries.

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queerty.com

17.05.2021 / 19:13

Yikes, Matt Gaetz’ “sugar daddy” associate just pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking

Another week, another look at the walls closing in on Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. On Monday, former county tax collector and Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty to six federal charges, including child sex trafficking and wire fraud.

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queerty.com

26.03.2021 / 19:48

Video of Jeanine Pirro being confronted by two guys posing as fans is both hilarious and awkward AF

New video of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro being confronted by two men pretending to be fans is circulating on social media and it’s both LOL funny and awkward AF at the same time.Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler (a.k.a. The Good Liars) are a comedy duo that trolls rightwing extremists, antigay politicians, and hate groups by pretending to be them.They first received widespread attention when they posed as investment bankers protesting the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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thegailygrind.com

02.03.2021 / 03:57

‘Abhorrent’: Hyatt Hotels Taking Claims CPAC Stage Was Inspired By Nazi Rune ‘Very Seriously’

Hyatt Hotels Corporation called hate symbols “abhorrent” after the stage at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place at a Hyatt hotel, closely resembled a Nordic rune that appeared on Nazi uniforms.

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thegailygrind.com

27.02.2021 / 03:27

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s “Transgender Potato Head” Joke Flops At CPAC

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) used his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Friday to take several swipes – both at members of his own party and at Democrats.

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queerty.com

26.02.2021 / 21:53

Ted Cruz bombs at CPAC with graphic joke about sweaty men’s “tongues in each other’s mouths”

Senator Ted Cruz is currently in Orlando, Florida for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference where he gave his first big speech since that whole Cancun scandal broke last week.But rather than deliver a typical political stump speech, Cruz decided to switch things up and try his hand at a little standup comedy.Things went about as well as you might expect them to.The 2024 GOP presidential hopeful cracked terrible jokes about cancel culture–“Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t tell comedy anymore because every joke has been canceled!”–while intermittently yelling at the crowd to “JUST HAVE FUN!!!” before heaping praise onto the man who once called his wife ugly and linked his father to JFK’s assassination.“Let me tell ya right now: Donald J.

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queerty.com

09.02.2021 / 17:43

Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando make six-year-old boy’s lip-sync dreams come true

San Francisco, it now has restaurants in over a dozen locations, including West Hollywood, New York, Denver and Chicago.Each restaurant has drag performers and hosts popular RuPaul’s Drag Race watch parties and drag and Broadway brunches.Yesterday, its outlet in Orlando, Florida, posted an adorable video of one of its customers joining staff on stage to perform a beloved song from The Greatest Showman.

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mambaonline.com

17.08.2020 / 19:15

Film | LGBTQ+ activists fight for gun control after Pulse massacre

Disarm Hate is a new documentary that seeks to create awareness about gun violence against the LGBTQ+ community following the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida.

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thegailygrind.com

04.08.2020 / 03:15

‘F-ck You N–ger Bitch!’: Florida ‘KKKaren’ Filmed Hurling Racist Slurs At Black Landscaping Crew

A deranged white woman was caught on video hurling racist slurs and abuse at a black landscaping crew in Orlando, Florida.

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newsweek.com

28.07.2020 / 22:43

Remembering Congressman John Lewis, a Staunch LGBTQ Ally | Opinion

Brandon Wolf survived the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, that killed 49 people and injured many more. He is the co-founder and vice president of the Dru Project, a nonprofit working to uplift and empower LGBTQ youth, and the media relations manager for Equality Florida, the state's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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newsweek.com

24.06.2020 / 05:23

Republican Senator Susan Collins Breaks With Trump, Vows to Overturn 'Discriminatory' Roll Back of LGBTQ Protections

banning health care and health insurance discrimination against transgender patients. The rule, which the Trump administration had been working on for more than 12 months, also came on the four-year anniversary of the Pulse shooting that left 49 people dead at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.Collins on Sunday joined the slew of LGBTQ rights groups in condemning the new rule to abandon the transgender protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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washingtonblade.com

10.06.2020 / 15:39

Casa Ruby threatened with ‘Pulse nightclub’ massacre

The ex-husband of a transgender woman who is a client of the D.C. LGBTQ community services center Casa Ruby has threatened in a Facebook post to commit a ”massacre” at Casa Ruby similar to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., according to Casa Ruby founder and executive director Ruby Corado.

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thegailygrind.com

15.05.2020 / 06:25

Pulse Memorial Mural In Orlando Vandalized With White Supremacist Propaganda

A Pulse memorial mural painted on the wall of a local LGBTQ+ aid organization in Orlando, Florida, has been vandalized with white supremacist propaganda, reports Orlando Weekly.

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