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News (USA)
Arkansas judge refuses to block Fayetteville LGBT protections from going into effect
Judge Doug Martin rejected a request to delay a Fayetteville city ordinance that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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New rules: Mormon church takes aim at married, same-sex couples; won’t baptize their kids
Mormon church officials have issued a rule change that says members in same-sex marriages can be kicked out and their children must wait until they’re 18 and disavow homosexual relationships to be baptized.
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News (World)
Colombia high court rules for adoptions by same-sex couples
In a historic decision, Colombia’s constitutional court opened the door this week for same-sex couples to legally adopt children in the conservative South American nation.
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News (USA)
Latest vote tally: Biskupski closer to becoming Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor
The former Utah lawmaker appears even closer to becoming Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor after the latest tally of uncounted votes were released late Thursday.
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Study: There’s no such thing as heterosexual women
According to the doctor who organized the study, “Research clearly demonstrates that when it comes to what turns them on, women are either bisexual or gay, but never straight.”
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NFL: Houston Equal Rights Ordinance defeat has no bearing on 2017 Super Bowl
A spokesman for the NFL announced that everything will go ahead as planned, despite calls from several gay rights advocates and a change.org petition.
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Indiana Chamber backs statewide gay rights protections
On Thursday The Indiana Chamber of Commerce called to extend the state’s civil rights protections to bar discrimination against people based on their LGBT status.
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News (USA)
Teacher is fired for showing anti-bullying video without parent’s permission
The film is a parable about a fictionalized world where heteros, not gays, are subject to sexual orientation-based discrimination. Was the lesson worth getting fired over?
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‘No constitutional basis’: Mississippi Supreme Court narrowly grants same-sex divorce
The Mississippi Supreme Court voted to allow a lesbian couple to seek a divorce — even as two justices claimed The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling has no constitutional basis.
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Gayle King and Oprah team up with antigay Chick-fil-A
Looks like Chick-fil-A will be one of Oprah’s “favorite things” in next month’s issue of O Magazine.
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Missouri venue refuses to wed lesbian couple
Same-sex weddings are legal nationwide, but finding a place to do it isn’t always easy, as a lesbian couple discovered while planning their wedding ceremony.
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Kentucky clerk Kim Davis loses latest gay marriage appeal
The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Thursday denied her latest request for a reprieve.
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Daily HIV medications might be replaced by bimonthly injections
The results of an 8-month study into injectable medication for HIV are out, and the news is good.
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Italian Football President to gays: Stay away from me!
Tavecchio has since claimed he’s the victim of an elaborate blackmail scheme and the tapes were “manipulated.”
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News (USA)
Matt Bevin is Kentucky’s new governor. Here’s 5 reasons that’s bad for the LGBTQ community.
Is Bevin’s victory a sign that the long-predicted backlash against LGBTQ rights has begun?
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News (World)
Homophobic trolls are complaining that Twitter’s new heart icon is “gay”
Evidently, a subset of angry antigay Tweeters don’t think Twitter’s latest innovation is “adorbs” at all.
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News (USA)
Beyoncé disappoints by ignoring Houston’s anti-discrimination ordinance
Blogger Carlos Maza writes, “Beyoncé has repeatedly refused the opportunity to speak out against the legalization of discrimination against LGBT people.”
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News (USA)
Boxer Yusaf Mack comes out as gay
Mack claims his 23-year-old daughter told him he should commit suicide after the embarrassment he’s inflicted upon the family.
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News (USA)
Houston is already feeling the backlash
There are “rumblings” that the 2017 Super Bowl, which is scheduled to happen in Houston, may be being moved to a different city.
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Commentary
A gay dad sounds off on the Kansas teacher who’s getting fired for fighting homophobia
Tom Leahy made a bad call when addressing the bullying he saw in his eighth grade class. Here, Rob Watson writes a letter explaining why he shouldn’t lose his job.