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Several Republicans took issue with the flying of the flag. Earlier this year, Iowa became the first state to fly the trans flag on its statehouse building, doing so a few hours before California. The Iowa Safe Schools petitioned to have the flag fly during Transgender Day of Remembrance. The flag flew only for a few minutes, and yet this still drew considerable ire from Republican lawmakers in the state, one of whom compared it to part of the larger “rainbow jihad.” One of those Republicans, Dean Fisher, told the…

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He claimed to have called the brand’s CEO, Dan Cathy. Tr*mp’s pastor, Franklin Graham, appears to have grown concerned after Chick-fil-A announced earlier this week that it would stop giving money to anti-LGBTQ charities in a welcome statement. In 2017, Chick-fil-A donated millions of dollars to groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Salvation Army, who have been accused of anti-LGBTQ views. The manager of the brand, Dan Cathy also said the chain was against same-sex marriage and in 2011, it donated almost…

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The victim was able to pull himself off of the tracks. A 21-year-old man in New York City was the victim of a homophobic crime when a man came at him yelling homophobic slurs, and hit him with a hammer before pushing him onto the tracks. The attacker was said to have yelled “fucking f*****” at the victim, before striking him in the armpit with the hammer. The victim was able to pull himself off of the tracks before the next train arrived, and the attacker fled the scene. The…

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