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Shutterstock The map highlights places where diversity training and other "liberal" actions have occurred. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/right-wing-group-publishes-map-woke-schools-shortly-mass-shooting-elementary-school/

Shutterstock Cis guards raping women inmates is a rampant problem at this prison, but J.K. Rowling is tweeting about trans women. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/j-k-rowling-complains-trans-people-prison-rape-bad-getting-shut/

YouTube screenshot Led by Brittney Griner's wife, the public campaign hopes that a meeting with Joe Biden will lead to her release. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/months-low-key-brittney-griners-supporters-upping-public-pressure/

Screenshot She rebutted the assertion that white supremacist groups are "the most dangerous terrorists" by saying that "some of the most dangerous people in America are trans-terrorists." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-straight-people-will-soon-extinct/

Campaign website "We are going to crush and destroy these rotten devils that call themselves Democrats!" Rayla Campbell told the state GOP convention. She wants to be in charge of elections. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/ultra-maga-candidate-goes-bananas-convention-speech-graphic-claim-5-year-olds/

KETK/screenshot With the help of the mainstream media, the Republican party leadership would like you to believe that it is wrenching control of the party away from the fringiest candidates in its midst. “Some far-right members are being replaced by traditional conservatives,” the Washington Post declared recently.  The article cited all of two examples–and a third […] source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/louis-gohmert-leaving-congress-replacement-wont-better/

Screenshot "All of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-uvalde-shooter-cross-dressing/

They just moved to San Francisco and were welcomed at Pride! source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pride-pictures-couples-first-pride-san-francisco/

Shutterstock "Homosexuality will not be accepted," one attacker yelled as another screamed, "Let us kill him before the police arrive!" source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/anti-gay-mob-100-people-beat-american-man-bloody-parade-streets/

Shutterstock Confused about how to use gender-neutral pronouns? Here’s a brief explainer on pronouns used by people who aren't binary-identified, as well as why they're important. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/people-use-pronouns/

“I am more than half-persuaded that I am, by some freak of nature, a man’s soul put into a woman’s body.” source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/little-women-author-louisa-may-alcott-transgender-man/

These films tell the stories of LGBTQ people in the military. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/five-lgbtq-films-watch-memorial-day/

Screenshot The Putin regime’s focus on humiliating the LGBTQ community inside Russia is being utilized as a part of their war efforts against the Ukrainian populace as well. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/anti-lgbtq-propaganda-big-part-russias-war-effort/

©2021 Mattel / Shutterstock Cox said she felt so grateful to be able to give her younger self something she was denied as a child. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/barbie-released-first-ever-transgender-doll-styled-iconic-actress-laverne-cox/

Indiana Governor's Office Republican lawmakers say they don't care if the state gets sued as they attempt to deny trans kids an equal education. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/indiana-becomes-3rd-state-year-override-governors-veto-anti-trans-bill/

Shutterstock The decade of the 80s isn’t generally considered a critical high point in either music or movies. So why is it so popular worldwide? source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/makes-80s-music-movies-appealing/

Screenshot And Uncle George Takei finds a way to make Elon Musk's tweets funny. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/week-lgbtq-twitter-furry-fearmongering-backfires/

AP Photo/John Raoux The answer is pretty damn simple actually. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/everyone-knows-really-causes-gun-violence-not-thoughts-prayers/

Shutterstock Ever heard of neutrois? It’s a gender identity that is neither male nor female. Learn more about the term and how people who identify as neutrois prefer to be addressed. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/means-identify-neutrois/

Bratz "This collaboration is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ community," the dolls' designer said. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/bratz-bucks-haters-helps-queer-youth-new-protesting-girlfriend-pair/

Shutterstock You're not the only one to ponder this question. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/humans-butt-hair/

dpa/picture alliance via Getty I The military said the Tinder profile was a violation of the duty of servicewomen and men to behave "properly" outside of duty. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pic-week-germanys-first-trans-military-official-put-trial-dating-site-profile/

This couple is still going strong! source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pride-pictures-celebrating-60th-anniversary-pride/

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead Transgender students will have to choose between being bullied in a bathroom or holding it for the entire day. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/oklahoma-bans-trans-kids-using-right-bathroom-school/

Shutterstock "I think it’s wrong that we have a bunch of queers in our society," he told officers before pleading guilty to a hate crime. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/man-hated-word-queer-much-tried-set-fire-lgbtq-bar/

Shutterstock "Terrific to see Wimbledon making this important change." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/billie-jean-kings-ex-husband-will-no-longer-get-credit-6-wimbledon-singles-wins/

Michael Jensen We had some of our preconceptions upended and learned a number of unexpected things about our new temporary home. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/7-things-surprised-athens/

Screenshot Lauren Boebert tried to make fun of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It backfired spectacularly. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/lauren-boebert-ridiculed-making-worst-gun-control-comparison-ever/

Shutterstock “It’s important for me as a queer teenager to be part of organizing Pride," one of the organizers told LGBTQ Nation. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/lgbtq-teens-stepped-saved-small-towns-pride-parade/

"You don’t just come out once and then rinse your hands clean of it or something like that. You keep coming out." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/eric-kim-coming-perfect-fried-chicken-prefers-round-table/

Screenshot A doctored image has the far-right believing that Kellogg's has announced that one of the mascots for Rice Krispies cereal is transitioning. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/new-conservative-conspiracy-theory-claims-rice-krispies-mascot-pop-transgender/

Shutterstock His school already knew that he was gay. They just didn't want students to find out. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gay-music-teacher-blackmailed-instead-helping-school-forced-resign/

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo Agatha Williams, a metal fabricator from Denver, Colorado turned front-line aid worker aiding civilians amid the Russian invasion, joined the relief effort. Here is what they're doing every day now to help the Ukrainian people. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/unlikely-queer-hero-dodges-bombs-deliver-aid-ukraine/

Shutterstock It was a cart with some LGBTQ books and rainbow hearts taped to it. But to John Labriola, it was "promoting homosexuality and gender dysphoria" to children. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/man-fired-anti-lgbtq-tirade-starts-year-long-battle-tiny-library-pride-display/

Shutterstock "If men could get pregnant you could get an abortion at an ATM" has become a common talking point. But could they? Rich cis women do not stand in solidarity with other women based on shared anatomy, and neither would rich cis men. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/cisgender-men-get-pregnant-really-get-abortion-easily/

Wikipedia Florida state Sen. Kelli Stargel is the "worst mom ever," she says in a blistering video that details alleged abuse by the "family values" candidate. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-congressional-candidate-extreme-daughter-begging-people-not-vote/

Screenshot "You know it was one of your sisters who killed those kids," one of the alleged attackers said. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/trans-girl-attacked-conservatives-falsely-blamed-ulvade-shooting-trans-person/

Mugshot Josh Duggar had a reality show and led rallies against LGBTQ equality a decade ago. Now he's getting locked up for possessing porn depicting children as young as 18-months-old. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/josh-duggar-sentenced-12-years-prison-child-porn-charges/

Hint: She said yes! source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pride-pictures-proposal-pride/

Gage Skidmore "Please just stop.. unless you are willing to break the filibuster to actually pass sensible gun control measures you might as well just say 'thoughts and prayers,'" one legislator wrote. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/kyrsten-sinema-shredded-fellow-democrats-blocking-gun-reform-kids-killed/

Shutterstock "Marlo's Law" will make it easier for same-sex couples to build a family. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/colorados-gay-governor-signs-law-helping-lgbtq-parents-overcome-child-custody-nightmare/

Gage Skidmore Rep. Paul Gosar didn't even offer up thoughts and prayers. Instead, he blamed an imaginary "transsexual leftist illegal alien" source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/maga-congressman-falsely-blames-transgender-person-texas-school-shooting/

Screenshot At least 19 children and three adults were killed during an elementary school mass shooting yesterday. The state's Republican governor plans on attending an NRA convention this weekend. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-sums-america-feeling-texas-school-shooting-four-words/

Shutterstock Gervais joins Dave Chappelle and J.K. Rowling in painting transgender women as sexual predators. His "jokes" are the same lines that conservatives use to deprive trans people of their right to pee in peace. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/ricky-gervais-new-netflix-comedy-special-full-dangerous-transphobic-jokes/

Shutterstock When young queer people experience sexual abuse, they often end up isolated from loved ones and stigmatized by the professionals who are supposed to help. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/queer-survivors-sexual-abuse-frequently-blamed-victimization/

Shutterstock Bradley Curry was almost going to skip his own graduation, but he and his dad were able to convince the school to change. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/teen-got-school-change-plan-deadname-graduation-last-minute/

Gage Skidmore "I'm pretty sure those Nazis have the same opinion of that flag as you do." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-slammed-asking-nazis-think-fake-pride-flag/

Shutterstock Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney and Rep. Mondaire Jones are hardly on good terms these days. It's not hard to see why. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/two-gay-congressmen-publicly-feuding-major-ramifications-lgbtq-people/

Shutterstock "Monkeypox is not a gay disease and neither are any other infectious diseases." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/unaids-calls-homophobic-racist-coverage-monkeypox/

Shutterstock Here's a brief look at who they are and why they've proved so influential over the last year. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/8-trailblazing-queer-people-just-made-time-magazines-list-100-influential-people/

Shutterstock LGBTQ people who thought they were attending a John Mulaney show were not happy with Dave Chappelle showed up. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/dave-chappelles-anti-trans-jokes-make-surprise-appearance-john-mulaney-show/

Senator Doug Mastriano's Facebook page Doug Mastriano is a Christian nationalist who breached the barricades at the Capitol on January 6. Trump loves him. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-nominee-pennsylvania-governor-may-worst-candidate-far-year/

Facebook screenshot Republican parents also get upset with teachers who mention their same-sex spouses (but not opposite-sex spouses). source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/40-republicans-believe-teachers-can-influence-childrens-sexual-orientation-gender/

(Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Netflix) The comic immediately blamed transgender people for the attack, despite knowing that it wasn't a transgender person who was angry over his anti-LGBTQ jokes. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/bisexual-chappelle-attacker-says-triggered-anti-lgbtq-jokes/

YouTube screenshot Alex Jones believes everyone was bigger than Ron Jeremy in the 1960s. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/alex-jones-spouts-off-strangest-conspiracy-theory-yet/

"Well, Earth, I love ya, thanks for letting me stay a while." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/snl-actor-kate-mckinnon-ends-10-seasons-show-abducted-aliens/

And she keeps adding to it every year! source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pride-pictures-lego-pride/

Screenshot This is hardly the first time that Christina Pushaw has repeated lies to the American public. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-press-secretary-rails-fake-story-homophobic-dog/

Shutterstock The judge ruled that a Christian organization can discriminate against adults because doctors have a secret agenda to make infants transgender. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/trump-appointed-judge-claims-doctors-changing-babies-gender-reason-block-obamacare-rule/

Starbucks isn't the only employer helping people travel to get abortions or gender-affirming care as states attack the right to health care access. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/starbucks-pay-travel-costs-trans-employees-getting-gender-affirming-care/

Being LGBTQ is expensive. But puns are free. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/week-lgbtq-twitter-gay-urge-buy-rainbow-swag-queer-realities/

Twitter screenshot A bizarre purple mascot helped make it all happen. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/woman-surprises-fans-proposing-girlfriend-basketball-game/

Screenshot "There's really only a couple of reasons why [such vandalism] could happen: One is straight-up hate, LGBT hate." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/video-captures-vandal-removing-1000-lgbtq-books-roadside-library/

Fischer-Price The perpetually outraged group says the toys are "glamorizing a sinful lifestyle." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/christian-conservatives-say-new-rupaul-dolls-indoctrinating-kids-become-queer/

KFOR screenshot Same-sex parents are being encouraged to legally adopt their own children in order to prevent a court from revoking their custodial rights. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/aclu-will-represent-non-gestational-lesbian-mother-denied-custody-child/

Netflix Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.  source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/heartstopper-renewed-another-two-seasons-internet-exploding-joy/

YouTube screenshot Gender non-conforming children need and benefit from adults' love, support, and acceptance. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/feature/eeka-mcleod-knows-like-raise-special-family/

Screenshot Marjorie Taylor Greene was defending Elon Musk when she said that Republicans, unlike Democrats, don't turn kids gay. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-democrats-want-turn-kids-gay/

Shutterstock "I’m tired. I’ve fought for so long for kids to feel human, to be safe, to have hope. I don’t know how much longer I can do it." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/teachers-already-getting-fired-resigning-speaking-dont-say-gay-movement/

Shutterstock The state's attorney general has warned that the proposed legislation would run counter to the state's nondiscrimination law. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-governor-will-veto-bill-force-schools-lgbtq-students/

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead Gov. Kevin Stitt - who has a history of anti-LGBTQ bigotry - is likely to sign it. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/oklahoma-passes-anti-transgender-bathroom-bill/

Shutterstock Del. Tim Anderson asked a court to order Barnes & Noble to stop selling the book "Gender Queer" to minors after the local school district banned it from libraries. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-lawmaker-petitions-court-ban-barnes-noble-selling-queer-book/

Screenshot "When I saw the video I was absolutely shocked because of... how many people were there and didn’t see anything wrong with it." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/woman-climbs-windowsill-steal-gay-husbands-rainbow-flag/

Screenshot An abortion case made it so that even laws that "conflicted with best medical practice" can be passed, he explained gleefully. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/anti-lgbtq-lawyer-explains-abortion-restrictions-paved-way-banning-trans-health-care/

Shutterstock Since colonial days, racism has been a pervasive feature, the very foundation, of the United States of America. It's time we acknowledged that instead of trying to hide it. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/nation-founded-racism/

Instagram screenshot “Shame on you... for such an insulting mockery post to my religion,” one commenter wrote about the call to "celebrate the power of love." source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/university-pulls-image-women-hijabs-kissing-muslim-community-protests/

Screenshot Pete Buttigieg said that the baby formula shortage is "very personal" as a gay dad. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/new-dads-pete-chasten-buttigieg-scrambled-feed-babies-formula-shortage/

Screenshot "After which failed pregnancy should I have been imprisoned?" Rep. Lucy McBath asked. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/congresswoman-gives-heartbreaking-testimony-stillbirths-abortion-hearing/

Shutterstock The teacher said that she believes God assigns people genders through their genitalia and therefore she can only use names and pronouns in accordance with students' records. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/trump-judge-rules-christian-teacher-right-misgender-trans-students/

Screenshot "I think it's important that we educate people like you," Dr. Yashica Robinson said at the abortion hearing. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/doctor-smacks-gop-congressman-tried-troll-asking-whats-woman-hearing/

And they can't wait to go again! source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/pride-pictures-daughters-first-pride/

The queer community is firing back at the Democrat's shameful remarks and they're not mincing words. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/texas-democratic-candidate-compares-gay-opponents-hiv-status-gambling-drug-addiction/

Angela George, CC 3.0 "I guess jeans were considered gay?" Ellen said about how she had to downplay her identity early on in the show. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/ellen-degeneres-wasnt-allowed-mention-portia-wear-jeans-talk-show-first-began/

Gage Skidmore Thanks to Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, the lack of clarity has led to a political narrative that will only harm Democrats in the midterms. They're in the majority and they can't get anything done. source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/time-admit-democratic-majority-senate-always-imaginary/