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This new Senator tried to keep lesbians off state property.

Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) has won the runoff election for U.S. Senate in Mississippi. Earlier this month, Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy (D) were the top-two finishers in the special election to replace Thad Cochran (R), who resigned in April due to health issues…  

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The tortured history of the gay man who touched off the purge of gays in government.

In the annals of presidential directives, few were more chilling than a document signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in April 1953. Crafted during the height of the Cold War, Executive Order 10450 declared that alongside Communism, “sexual perversion” by government officials…