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Sunnivie Brydum

Sunnivie Brydum is an award-winning journalist and former managing editor of The Advocate, whose work has also appeared in Vox and Bustle. She writes about the politics of equality, and strives to elevate the voices of marginalized LGBT people. Reach her on Twitter @sunnivie, or via email: sunnivie@religiondispatches.org

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State-Licensed Ministers Can't "Pray Away the Gay," SCOTUS Affirms

The Supreme Court’s refusal to consider an appeal of California’s 2012 ban on conversion therapy is the clearest sign yet that even a Neil Gorsuch Court is unwilling to allow religious practitioners…
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Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds

On its surface, the first religious liberty case heard by the now-fully-seated Supreme Court seems to have very little to do with religion. As attorneys for Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia framed…
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Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn't "Free Speech," it's Free Market

As Remezcla reports, sometime in the past month, Netflix Mexico yanked Paco del Toro’s 2016 film, Pink, from its lineup. The controversial film told the story of a gay couple (comprised, of course, of…
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