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The Mike Pence (Donald Trump) Assault On LGBTQ Equality Is Already Underway I'm not going to sugarcoat this at all. We are in for a full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights the likes of which many, particularly younger LGBTQ people, have not seen. Progress will most certainly be halted completely, likely rolled back. And it’s already underway. First, forget any of your thinking that Donald Trump is from New York City, probably has gay friends, sent Elton John a congratulatory note on his civil union in 2005, used the term “LGBTQ” (in pitting gays against Muslims at the Republican National Convention, when he vowed only to protect us from a “hateful foreign ideology”) or any other superficial things you may have read or heard. Ronald Reagan was from Hollywood, and he, too, had many gay friends, including legendary actor Rock Hudson. Reagan even came out against an anti-gay state initiative while he was governor of California. But once Reagan made his pact with the religious right ...

Nine-year-old Stormi set out last month to sell cookies just like every other Girl Scout — with a sales pitch and a goal. “I like to sell cookies because it’s very nice to sell cookies,” she told BuzzFeed News . Cookies, she said, “make people smile.” But when Stormi, who is transgender, started knocking on neighbors’ doors near her home in Herrin, Ill., one man turned her away, saying: “Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress.”   “It made me sad,” Stormi told BuzzFeed News. “Because I’m a girl.”   So, she said, she found a way to shut down her bully and sell more than 3,000 boxes of cookies.  Meet Stormi, a 9-year-old Girl Scout living in Herrin, Illinois. She loves hiking, camping, and playing tag with her new friends in the Girl Scouts. https://t.co/CuY1kHTYlh I n addition to raising funds for the Girl Scouts, Stormi wanted to donate cookies to local foster children — because she is one. S...