5 THINGS TO KNOW
Year: 2017
5 THINGS TO KNOW
A new study shows that gay people are lousy sleepers.
Gay people are more likely to experience trouble sleeping, new research reveals. Homosexual men are significantly more likely to have trouble falling asleep, require medication to overcome insomnia or wake feeling unrested compared to straight or bisexual males, a US study found. Read the full article HERE.
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Homophobic preacher offers advice on avoiding “flaming foo-foo fruit loop” waiters.
A pastor in Jacksonville, Florida doesn’t think restaurant patrons should have to be served by gay waitstaff and is offering tips to his congregation on how to avoid interactions with homosexuals in public. Stedfast Baptist Church preacher Adam Fannin was delivering a sermon over the weekend that explained his process… Read the full article HERE.
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No judgeship for ‘Satan’s plan’ Texan, as White House drops Jeff Mateer nomination.
Jeff Mateer, a top lawyer for the state of Texas who has described transgender children as evidence of “Satan’s plan,” will not become a federal judge. Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that the nominations of Mateer and a controversial Alabama nominee, Brett Talley, were dead. Read the full article HERE.
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Soccer fans grow more accepting of openly gay players, international survey says.
Three-quarters of soccer fans in a survey say they would welcome an openly gay player on their national team, though that number is lower in the U.S. and much lower in countries of the Middle East. The survey of 50,000 fans in 38 countries on five continents was conducted by the soccer app Forza Football in… Read the full article HERE.
DESTINATIONS
Bermuda Tourism and LGBT Discrimination: Governor John Rankins has to decide.
The anti-LGBT bill outlawing same-sex marriage in Bermuda is on John Rankin’s desk. John Rankins is the Governor of Bermuda. Earlier today ignoring international frustration, the Bermuda Senate voted for the bill to eliminate equality in their country. The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights… Read the full article HERE.
NEWS
LGBTQ Alabamians played a crucial role in spurring the turnout against Roy Moore.
In the months leading up to Tuesday’s Senate special election in Alabama, Republican candidate Roy Moore cemented himself as one of the most virulently anti-LGBTQ candidates in U.S. history. Queer voters faced the prospect of a man coming to power who compared LGBTQ rights to Nazism and claimed that homosexual conduct should be illegal… Read the full article HERE.