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15 iconic LGBT moments from the last decade.

It’s been 50 years since the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn — a moment some historians have deemed  the beginning of the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the US. In the half-century following the famed Stonewall riots, the landscape of…

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Same-sex attraction reported higher in women than in men.

Same-sex attraction is far more common among women than men, a new study by New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has learned. It found that one in six women (17.6 percent) experience same-sex attraction at some point in their lives, compared to one in…

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Why are LGBT people more likely to use e-cigarettes?

Researchers have found that gay, lesbian and bisexual people are significantly more likely to use e-cigarettes in the United States than straight people. A team from Baylor College of Medicine found that 38 percent of gay, lesbian and bisexual adults use…

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Dallas ‘Straight Pride’ attracts a crowd of 2.

Pride events always attract out-of-town crowds and today’s Straight Pride at Dallas City Hall Plaza was no exception. All two of the participants were here from Boston. Not even Teresa Stephens Richenberger from Liberty City, Texas, the local organizer, who is…