'They Just Launched a War'

June 7, 2021
Protesters took to the streets last summer to protest police violence. Lawsuits making headway in Columbus and other cities are showing that the police crackdown helped prove their point. Posted originally by Politico Magazine on May 9, 2021, at 07:00 a.m. EDT. Tammy Fournier-Alsaada was addressing a crowd in front of Ohio’s domed Capitol building […]
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This Is How Steve Bannon Sees The Entire World

November 16, 2016
The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk where he said racism in the far right gets “washed out” and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat. BuzzFeed News publishes the complete transcript for the first time.
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Inside Mexico’s Surprise Backlash To Marriage Equality

October 2, 2016
LGBT activists in Mexico thought they’d won the fight for marriage equality — until a new conservative alliance brought thousands into the streets.
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Would-Be Asylum Seekers Are Stuck At Guantanamo Bay

March 20, 2016
The Obama administration says it has no plans to end a decades-old program that holds would-be asylum seekers without access to lawyers on the same legal grounds underpinning the detentions of those held in the so-called “war on terror.”
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This Is What Happened To The Missing Trans Women Of El Salvador

December 27, 2015
The story of how a group of trans women vanished in the midst of El Salvador's civil war has been passed down from generation to generation, creating a legend that gave them a place in the history of a country that often seems to wish they would disappear. BuzzFeed News' J. Lester Feder set out to document the mysterious incident for the first time.
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Pedophilia Claim Exposes Rift In The "Pro-Family" Movement

October 30, 2015
The World Congress of Families closes today amid debate how to continue to oppose same-sex marriage without being anti-LGBT. “Ten years ago people could say, ‘The homosexual movement is coming for America,’ and now you can’t,” one leader told BuzzFeed News.
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Will Supreme Court Ruling Put LGBT Rights At The Heart Of The U.S. Global Human Rights Push?

June 29, 2015
Last week's ruling on same-sex marriage is a tipping point in the conversation over how LGBT rights are human rights.
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Mexico's Quiet Marriage Equality Revolution

February 26, 2015
Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future. “Outside of Mexico, and even inside of Mexico, these advances are not widely known ... but it is irreversible,” the lawyer who started the wave of cases now sweeping the country told BuzzFeed News.
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Meet The Trans Sex Worker Who Transformed A Gang-Controlled Prison

February 8, 2015
Karla Avelar survived a serial killer, gang attacks, and four years in a Salvadoran prison to become a trans activist on the global stage. J. Lester Feder and Nicola Chávez Courtright report from El Salvador.
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The LGBT Kids Who Flee Their Countries — And Their Families — For The U.S.

November 11, 2014
Some of the thousands of Central American children trying to get to the United States are seeking a love and acceptance they can't get at home.
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