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Finding the safest places for LGBT travelers worldwide.

The first-ever neighbourhood-level LGBTQ Safety ratings category on a smartphone app was launched today. LGBTQ travellers will—for the first time—have unlimited access to real-time safety ratings on more than 30,000 neighbourhoods worldwide…

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15-term homophobe loses congressional seat.

Democrat Harley Rouda emerged victorious on Saturday in his congressional race against 15-term incumbent and noted anti-LGBTQ Republican Dana Rohrabacher in California’s Orange County, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rouda, a 56-year-old real estate developer and a former…