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Are gay men being denied insurance because they are taking Truvada?

California’s top insurance cop is going after insurers who are supposed to cover people for life, disability or longterm care. “Just this last year we returned over $80 million to insurers about complaints they had over their insurance companies,” said Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

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Fighting gay conversion therapy. One teen’s journey prompts county ban.

Bojidar Kandar was a senior at Amherst Central High School when he finally told his mother he was gay. “She thought something was wrong that she couldn’t fix,” said Kandar, now 30. His mother found a Christian counseling service a half hour away that offered to make Kandar straight. The weekly therapy sessions were rough, said Kandar…

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Alabama school district will allow lesbian couple to attend prom together.

An Alabama school district will allow a lesbian couple to attend their prom together after Lambda Legal threatened to sue if the teens were not allowed to do so. The Calhoun County School District has responded to a letter addressed to Superintendent Joe Dyar and Mack Holley, the principal of Alexandria High School…

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Soldiers are not asking about transgender policy according to the Army secretary.

In his first three months as the new secretary of the Army, Mark Esper says President Donald Trump’s transgender ban — and its potential implementation — “hasn’t come up” as he’s traveled to U.S. bases at home and abroad. “It really hasn’t come up,” Esper told reporters on Thursday when asked whether soldiers had concerns about serving beside openly transgender individuals.

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Male figure skaters struggle with body image and gay men can relate.

Adam Rippon is proud of his butt and makes it clears it’s not enhanced. He also is proud of his large, muscular thighs and six-pack abs. But it wasn’t always this way for the American Olympic figure skater. In 2016, Rippon, who is openly gay, lived on a diet more fitting for a bird than a world class athlete.

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Have most gay men cheated on their partners?

Most gay men have cheated on their loved one, according to a provocative new study. Health Equality and Rights Organisation (HERO) found that 58 percent of gay men have been cheated on by their same-sex partner, while 52 percent admit to cheating themselves.