Billy Porter will appear on Sesame Street. Cue the rightwing outrage. | Texas Attorney General sides with judge who won’t perform same-sex marriages | The transgender flag emoji has finally arrived

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Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi will star in a cute Super Bowl ad The over 100 million expected Super Bowl viewers will see a smiling lesbian couple on their TV. Billy Porter will appear on Sesame Street. Cue the rightwing outrage. "If you see this and you’re upset by it, maybe you should do what your parents couldn’t and help your children become emotionally healthy and confident adults." Texas Attorney General sides with judge who won’t perform same-sex marriages He's not enforcing the law because he believes "religious liberty" means judges don't have to do their jobs. The transgender flag emoji has finally arrived Trans people have been lobbying for this emoji for four years. RuPaul chastises LGBTQ media for not acknowledging her Super Bowl ad was the first with a drag queen Kim Chi and Miz Cracker are going to appear in a Super Bowl ad this Sunday, something RuPaul did decades ago. South Dakota just passed a bill that could jail doctors for treating transgender youth The bill's sponsor compared doctors and parents of transgender children as "Nazis." His bill is going to the state senate now. How Kobe Bryant’s death inspired a campaign against homophobia in soccer The number 24 is taboo in Brazilian soccer because it's associated with gay men. Now there's a campaign to change that. Franklin Graham got banned from another arena for his hate speech. Now he wants to sue. Venues are canceling Graham because of his anti-LGBTQ hate speech. Netflix’s “Chip & Potato” now has two zebra dads & gender-neutral bathrooms The show is aimed at preschoolers and it doesn't shy away from LGBTQ-inclusiveness. The judge who wrote the first marriage equality decision has been thanked every week since Margaret Marshall said that people remember her historic 2003 decision that legalized marriage equality. And they're grateful.

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