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Throughout Pride Month, it has become increasingly common for corporations to adorn their websites in rainbow flags, espouse their support for LGBTQ+ rights and try to win over a community that has historically been stereotyped as having a disposable income. But some of those companies still steer big money to groups and politicians who oppose LGBTQ+ rights.

Chief Economist at the Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab, Lee Badgett, said that the idea that LGBTQ communities have more money to spend is a misrepresentation of the community as a whole....

Washington (AFP) - Tucked in the massive funding bill signed Saturday by President Joe Biden is a provision banning the flying of LGBTQ Pride flags over US embassies, but the White House has vowed to work toward its repeal. The prohibition was one of many side issues included in the mammoth $1.2 trillion package to fund the government through September, which passed early Saturday shortly after a midnight deadline. As Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a conservative Christian, scrambled for votes to get the bill passed in his chamber, he "boasted" of the Pride flag ban as a reason his par......

Threats against organizers of a Tennessee Pride festival apparently didn’t do much to deter visitors from attending the annual event.

The Blount County Pride festival in Marysville doubled its 2022 attendance despite threats from Ryan Desmond, the county’s District Attorney, who said he would prosecute organizers of the event if they violated a defunct anti-drag law, The Daily Beast reports.

A federal judge in response to a last-minute American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit ruled in favor of the Pride organizers in response to Desmond’s threats, the report said....

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended a controversial ad that touts his opposition to LGBTQ rights and calls out Donald Trump over his past support for such rights, the news website OutKick reports.

The ad has been described as “homophobic” and “divisive and desperate” by fellow Republicans. It was posted by the DeSantis War Room twitter account and has been viewed more than 24.6 million times as of Wednesday.

“Yeah look, I think identifying Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream, where he was having men compete against women, I think that’s totally fair game,” DeSantis told Tomi Lahren....

A dispute between pro-and anti-LGBTQ+ protesters in Los Angeles County Tuesday evening turned violent, CBS News reports.

Opposing protesters clashed outside a Glendale Unified School District building where members were scheduled to vote on recognizing June as Pride month.

The same two groups protested outside a North Hollywood school last week over a Pride event that was being held on the Saticoy Elementary School campus. ...

PULASKI, Tenn. — Members of the LGBTQ community and their allies kicked off Pride month here with a common theme: defiance.

No matter the string of anti-gay actions by Tennessee's Republican-controlled state government or threats by avowed neo-Nazis plotting in the shadows. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents and their allies celebrated in even some of the state’s deepest red counties while taking heart from a federal court ruling this weekend that struck down the state’s new anti-drag show law as unconstitutional.

Thousands of people streamed into a Pride celebration held at a city-owned horse park Saturday in Franklin, where a tie-breaking vote cast in April by the Tennessee city's mayor proved to be the deciding factor in the event obtaining a municipal permit....