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She’s got gay: WNBA’s MVP comes out, reveals she’s engaged at Olympics
Although social media often features her fiancée, Elena Delle Donne has only now revealed she is gay and engaged.
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News (USA)
NOM claims victory in defeat of pro-LGBTQ, pro-union Republican
After Anne Zerr voted against discrimination, the National Organization for Marriage vowed to “end her political career.”
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News (USA)
Iran executes gay teenager for having sex with another boy
Hassan Afshar was the first juvenile to be executed in Iran this year, with 160 other young offenders on death row.
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News (USA)
New HRC billboard trolls Alabama Supreme Court chief justice
The judge faces ethics charges for telling probate judges they should ignore the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Commentary
Donald Trump’s no good awful very bad week (so far)
So far this week, Donald Trump has careened from controversy to controversy.
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News (USA)
Boston mayor accused of pressuring parade organizers to let gays march
According to the complaint, the mayor at one point got into a profanity-laden shouting match with parade organizer Philip Wuschke.
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News (USA)
The shocking slur used by trans rocker Laura Jane Grace for her memoir
We asked trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual and straight people if a book title containing “the T word” would offend them.
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News (USA)
Elliot Tiber, gay Woodstock organizer, dies at age 81
The festival took place just after Tiber had been present at the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village.
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News (USA)
Michigan Supreme Court denies lesbians parental rights
The women have no rights because the children weren’t born during a marriage – even though that wasn’t legal in Michigan when the children were born.
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Republican Caitlyn Jenner not ‘outwardly’ supporting Trump
Jenner said she wants “to help the entire Republican Party do a better job when it comes to LGBT issues.”
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News (USA)
Orlando mayor wants city to buy Pulse nightclub for memorial
The club’s owner has met with city officials, but talks were preliminary.
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News (USA)
Caitlyn Jenner and E! deny reports network has canceled ‘I Am Cait’
Sources tell LGBTQ Nation that rather than pull the plug, producers are putting together their budget for Season 3.
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News (USA)
Supreme Court blocks Virginia trans boy from using men’s bathroom
Justice Stephen Breyer said he joined the GOP-appointed majority because it “will preserve the status quo.”
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News (USA)
Pulse victim dances for first time after being shot multiple times
We have video. You’ll have tears.
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News (USA)
Sean Hayes: ‘Will & Grace’ fans need to ‘move on,’ just as they have
“We’re all different people now,” said Hayes, dismissing even the possibility of a reunion or movie sequel.
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News (USA)
Arkansas antique store owner tells lesbians to stop holding hands
“I’m a family person, so I want this to be a family store,” the shop owner said. “It would have been the same whether it had been regular people or not.”
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News (USA)
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is now treating HB2 like a disaster
The Republican governor gave the OK for $500,000 in disaster funds to be shifted to the HB2 defense fund.
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News (World)
Swipe left, then sign of the cross? Irish trainee priests using Grindr
A startling announcement by the Dublin’s archbishop: he is not sending seminarians to the national seminary after “strange goings-on.”
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News (USA)
Award winning film captures trans widow’s grief
The University of California, Berkeley, bestowed its highest honor for documentaries upon Deana Mitchell’s film about Dawn Ennis.
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News (World)
Call it the Isle of Men: grooms get hitched in first same-sex wedding
Luke Carine and Zac Tomlinson are the first same-sex couple to marry on the island since new laws were passed on July 19.