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Gay GOPers to rally in DC with neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Gay Republicans will join the rally in Washington, DC to protest the results of the 2020 election. Several far-right groups have pledged support for the event, including white nationalists, militia groups, QAnon believer, and neo-Nazis. And two gay activists are helping…

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Maine gets their first out LGBT Speaker of the House.

Gay Rep. Ryan Fecteau is set to become speaker of the Maine House of Representatives. Democrats nominated Fecteau as speaker Thursday, and because they hold a majority in the House, he is “all but assured” of election to the position…

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A private love story — the story of Chuck and Dean.

Chuck Goetz and R. Dean Behnke met at a South Bend bar called The Waterworks. “We immediately fell in love,” Behnke recalled fondly. It was 1978, when homosexuality was “still looked down upon,” as Behnke put it. For millions of people…