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Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong
And another, smaller injustice was obscured: the sadistic prosecution of Noor Salman.
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India's only openly gay prince is turning his pink palace into a centre for vulnerable LGBT+ people
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil might have grown up in a vast and opulent rococo palace in prosperous Gujarat with servants responding to his every beck and call but it would be wrong to assume his life has been free of problems.
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Taxi company ordered to pay after driver ejects gay couple
Philadelphia officials have ordered a taxi company to pay a former passenger who says he was kicked out of a cab after he kissed his male partner. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday the city Commission on Human Relations has ordered PHL Taxi to pay Mark Seaman $500. The ruling comes eight years after Seaman kissed his partner on the top of the head as they left Philadelphia International Airport.
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Liberals to erase criminal records for consensual same-sex acts
The federal government has tabled a bill that will allow people convicted of historical same-sex offences to have their criminal records expunged. Proposed legislation aims to correct a "historical injustice" now recognized as the criminalization of same-sex activity by consenting adults, effectively removing from the record convictions that would today be inconsistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Trump joked Pence 'wants to hang' all gay people, New Yorker reports
President Trump once joked that Vice President Mike Pence “wants to hang” all gay people, The New Yorker reported
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Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization
he Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is a supposedly radical feminist activist group which, as noted by Pink News, shows “little evidence of campaigning on any women’s issues unrelated to trans…
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Texas church stops weddings until it can do same-sex ceremonies
Texas and the church aren’t often known for their progressive nature, but one church in Austin has decided to take a significant stand on LGBT rights. The First United Methodist Church on 1201 Lavaca has this month announced that it will no longer hold any weddings until it is permitted to hold same-sex ceremonies, MyStatesman reports.
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Mississippi’s Draconian Anti-LGBT Law, the Worst in the Nation, Is Set to Take Effect
A federal appeals court has dismissed the challenge to HB 1523, the most expansive ‘religious liberty’ law in the U.S. LGBT people in Mississippi should rightly be very afraid.
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"all this male nudity and gay sex!" – meet harris dickinson, star of 'beach rats'
Harris Dickinson is totally chill about playing a Brooklyn bro exploring cruising sites and his sexuality during one hot summer day in the city
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Serbia’s openly lesbian PM marches in Belgrade’s gay pride parade
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic is the first openly gay leader in the archly conservative Balkan country to walk in its pride parade. She said her presence shows that the government respects all of its citizens.
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Edith Windsor, who helped end gay marriage ban, dies at 88
Edith Windsor, a gay rights pioneer whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down parts of a federal anti-gay-marriage law and paved a path toward legalizing same-sex nuptials nationwide, died Tuesday. She was 88. Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
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Lesbians win $10,000 judgment against county clerk for calling them an ‘abomination’
Last year, Amanda Abramovich and Samantha Brookover headed to their county clerk’s office in West Virginia to receive a marriage license. What should have been one of the happiest days of their lives quickly took a sour turn. A deputy clerk in Gilmer County allegedly chastised the women as she processed their marriage license, calling them an “abomination” and telling them God would “deal” with them, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
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Gay marriage has just been legalised in Chile
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has introduced a bill to legalise gay marriage, the latest in a series of recent reforms in a country long regarded as one of Latin America’s most socially conservative.
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‘I’m straight and I love gays’ Saudi Arabia’s most surprising Twitter trend
Homosexuality may carry the death penalty in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia, but that did not stop a number of brave activists taking to Twitter last week to declare “I’m straight and I love gays”. The declaration of solidarity would be striking in any Western nation, but coming as it did from a country which beheads married men found guilty of "sodomy", the Arabic language hashtag made quite a statement.
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World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
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Muslim leaders complain over 'Islamophobic' banners at Pride
Muslim leaders have lodged a formal complaint with the organisers of London’s Pride festival after placards allegedly bearing Islamophobic messages were spotted at the event. A secularist group of former Muslims were seen carrying a series of controversial signs during the march through the capital last weekend.
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Malta votes to legalise same-sex marriage by 66-1
MPs on the predominantly Catholic island of Malta have voted to legalise same-sex marriage.
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Watch: Marriage Equality Act approved with Edwin Vassallo voting against
Parliament this evening approved the introduction of gay marriage through the new Marriage Equality Act with Nationalist MP Edwin Vassallo voting against. Malta became the 15th EU state to introduce same-sex marriage, just six years after the introduction of divorce.
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Chicago LGBT march bans Jewish pride flags: 'They made people feel unsafe'
Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday. The Chicago-based LGBTQ newspaper Windy City Times quoted a Dyke March collective member as saying the rainbow flag with the Star of David in the middle "made people feel unsafe," and that the march was "pro-Palestinian" and "anti-Zionist."
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Germany finally clears gay men convicted under Nazi-era law
Germany's parliament voted Thursday to quash the convictions of 50,000 gay men sentenced for homosexuality under a Nazi-era law which remained in force after the war and offer compensation.
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