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French minister comes out as gay to fight homophobia.

France’s Digital Minister Mounir Mahjoubi has come out as gay, in a rare move for a French public figure that he said would help give gay people more visibility at a time when homophobic acts are on the rise. In a message on Twitter late on Thursday, the international day against homophobia, the 34-year old junior minister…

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These gay men were fired from the Peace Corps after they tested positive for HIV.

The Peace Corps dismissed at least two men after they tested positive for HIV — and denied HIV prevention medication to others. Romany Tin started feeling feverish and tired this January, six months into his dream job teaching English at a rural Cambodian high school as a volunteer for the Peace Corps. After a battery of blood tests two days later…

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation to hail condoms as ‘lifesaver’ at Pride celebrations.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, is proud to join the LGBTQ community in celebrating the 2018 Gay Pride season through its participation in over two dozen Pride events across the country—in many locations, with its new “Lifesaver” busses wrapped with a lighthearted and colorful condom and Pride-themed graphic.

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The “outing” circus in Alabama continues with former Alabama legislator losing her new job.

A retiring Alabama legislator who tweeted Tuesday night that Gov. Kay Ivey was gay, will not be taking over as head of an Orlando-based LGBTQ group, the One Orlando Alliance announced Thursday. Ivey denied the claim Wednesday, calling it a “disgusting lie.”  

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CDC will roll back LGBTQ data collection in one of world’s largest health surveys.

In a move that’s become all too familiar over the past year and a half, an official with the nation’s leading health agency confirmed it will be rolling back data collection on LGBTQ people. According to UCLA’s The Williams Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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Surfer, believed to be China’s first openly gay athlete, to attend Gay Games.

‘We have the right to choose love and to be loved,’ he says. A professional surfer in China has come out publicly as gay, believed to be the first Chinese athlete who has come out as LGBT. The surfer, Xu Jingsen, or ASam in an Anglicized translation, will attend the August Gay Gamesin Paris.