5 THINGS TO KNOW
Month: November 2018
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NBC Exit Poll: Breaking apart the statistics of LGBT voters.
Democratic candidates enjoyed strong support from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters nationwide on Tuesday, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. LGBT people made up 6 percent of the electorate in the midterms, and 82 percent of them cast their ballot for…
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Why did Whitaker prosecute this openly gay state lawmaker?
Editor’s note: This column was originally published Dec. 21, 2007, as “Question lingers: Why was McCoy prosecuted?” Before the feds’ case against state Sen. Matt McCoy went to the jury last week, the prosecutor made an appeal. Referring to her star witness, she told jurors, “The government is not asking that you take Tom Vasquez home with…
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Gus Kenworthy shamelessly flirts with hunky new state rep.
Everyone, including Gus Kenworthy, is crushing on Neil Rafferty, the hunky gay U.S. Marine from Birmingham who was just elected to his state’s House of Representatives. Rafferty first announced his bid for the House seat in Alabama’s 54th district back…
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‘Boy erased’—why gay conversion therapies should be outlawed.
“Pray the gay away” is shorthand for Christian programs that, disguised as love, purport that God heals homosexuality. Through the lens of sexual sin, homosexuality is construed as something in need of healing, a disease in…
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Why are Islamic extremists obsessed with gay porn?
Islamist extremist hackers are “primarily” motivated by using gay porn and sending images of their penises, according to one technology expert. a consultant at Errata Security, wrote on his blog on November 2 explaining why a “cyber 9/11”…
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