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A Chinese paramilitary policemen stands guard outside the Swedish embassy during the opening ceremony for Diversity Week in Beijing, Friday, May 12, 2023. On Monday, May 15, 2023, the advocacy group the Beijing LGBT Center became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping's government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

In this April 19, 2019 file photo, travelers look at a menu at a Taco Bell restaurant inside Miami International Airport in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) **FILE**

Taco Bell promotes LGBT advocacy in drag queen shows at its restaurants

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, June 29, 2014 file photo, NYPD police officers march along Fifth Avenue during the gay pride parade in New York. A Gallup poll published in Feb. 2022 finds that a record 7.1% of Americans now identify as something other than heterosexual, including one in five Generation Z young adults. (AP Photo/Julia Weeks, File) **FILE**

Gallup: Record 7.1% of Americans now identify as LGBT

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

An online post about the work of the LGBT Rights Advocacy Group with a link to their social media account Queer Advocacy Online is displayed on a phone in Beijing, China, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The LGBT advocacy group in China that has spearheaded many of the country's legal cases pushing for greater rights, announced on social media Thursday, Nov. 5, 2021, it is halting its work for the foreseeable future. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China LGBT rights group shuts down amid hostile environment

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

People hold a protest rally in front of Poland's Education Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, against the appointment of a new education minister Przemyslaw Czarnek. Czarnek has said that LGBT people "are not equal to normal people." LGBT rights are the focus of a growing culture clash in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Under fire over LGBT rights, Polish leader blames activist

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Group: Egypt police arbitrarily arrest, torture LGBT people

Associated Press

Police scuffle with pro-LGBT protesters angry at the arrest of an LGBT activist in Warsaw, Poland on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. The incident comes amid rising tensions in Poland between LGBT activists and a conservative government that is opposed to LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Protesters decry government’s anti-LGBT attitudes in Poland

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Piotr Grabarczyk and his boyfriend Kamil Pawlik, right, from Poland, wait for a taxi outside the airport after Grabarczyk arrived in Barcelona, Spain, early Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Like them, many LGBT people are choosing to leave Poland amid rising homophobia promoted by President Andrzej Duda and other right-wing populist politicians in power. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Polish LGBT people leaving as post-vote mood grows hostile

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Protesters hold a sign saying &quot;People, not Ideology,&quot; at a protest of the homophobic rhetoric of Polish President Andrzej Duda in Bialystok, Poland, on June 20, 2020. Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are angry and afraid after Duda won re-election in a divisive campaign that cast their movement for equal rights as a dangerous “ideology” that threatens families in the deeply Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

Poland’s LGBT community feels fear and anger after election

By VANESSA GERA and DOROTHEE THIESING - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda waves as he campaigns ahead of a presidential election later in this month, in Plonsk, Poland, on Tuesday June 16, 2020. Duda is ahead of nine other candidates, but he is not expected to get the 50% needed in the June 28 balloting to avoid a runoff. He is considered most likely to face off in a second round on July 12 against Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

LGBT activist ends meeting with Polish president in protest

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington where the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the first case of LGBT rights since the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. LGBT-rights activists are looking ahead as they celebrate a major victory in the Supreme Court regarding job discrimination, They hope the June 15, 2020, decision spurs action against other forms of bias against their community and undermines the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service by transgender people. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

LGBT activists see hard work ahead despite Supreme Court win

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, June 25, 1988 file photo, people watch as almost 1,500 quilt panels bearing the names of New York area residents who have died of AIDS are unfolded on the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park. The panels, which are expected to be incorporated into the national Names Project AIDS Quilt, include 75 bearing the names of metropolitan area infants. (AP Photo/Wilbur Funches, File)

COVID-19 and AIDS crisis: NYC gays see parallels, contrasts

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

In this file photo, Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, fires up the crowd at Colorado's Capitol in Denver during a 2009 rally condemning then-President Barack Obama's proposed health care plan. Mr. Caldara was recently let go from the Denver Post, where he had a regular opinion column. He says the liberal editor who terminated him did so because of his views on transgender rights issues being "insensitive." (Valerie Richardson/The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Fired Denver Post columnist says he was canned for insisting ‘there are only two sexes’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Popular LGBT club in Slovenia capital attacked, no injuries

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 20, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two of the term’s most closely watched cases over whether federal civil rights law protects LGBT people from job discrimination. The cases Tuesday, Oct. 8, are the court’s first on LGBT rights since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and replacement by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: High court appears split over LGBT rights

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