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New figures shared exclusively with CBS News are offering a detailed look at the scope of decades of discrimination by the U.S. military against gay and lesbian service members, revealing that more than 29,000 individuals kicked out because of their sexuality were denied honorable discharges.

The new data, shared exclusively with CBS News, covers the years from 1980 until the federal courts lifted the ban against gay and lesbian service members in 2010.

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The lecture covered topics such as the intersection between reproductive and disability justice, the rise of eugenicist language in the U.S., and the legacy of disability activists.  

Report documents dozens of cases of security agencies in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia extorting members of LGBTQ community based on their social media activities

A rights group says in a new report that security agencies and government officials across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people

BEIRUT (AP) — Security agencies and government officials in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people, a rights group said Tuesday.

The withdrawal of James Cavallaro's nomination to a human rights commission was decried by rights advocates as a clamp-down on criticism of the Israeli government's violent policies in Palestine. By Julia Conley Common Dreams Human rights advocates are warning that the Biden administratio