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Church defies the SBC and welcomes new gay and trans members

Two weeks after being kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention, Towne View Baptist Church celebrated its 32nd anniversary by formally accepting members the SBC believes they should have turned away.  One by one, Pastor Jim Conrad introduced seven new…

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Revenge porn? Video released of gay sex in Aussie Parliament

A leaked video of an Australian government staffer masturbating and performing a sex act in parliament should be investigated as “revenge porn”, an MP has argued. Gay Liberal staffer Nathan Winn was fired for lewd conduct last week after an…

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Leo Varadkar forced into hiding after ‘homophobic’ threats

Leo Varadkar and his partner Matt have been forced to move out of their home after they received “homophobic” death threats from the far-right. The former Irish leader has been subjected to “extremely serious” death threats in recent weeks, some…

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‘We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our son’

It was around eight o’clock on 28 August 2000, just past the frenzy of the New York rush hour when a subway train rattled down the track into 14th Street station, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. Danny Stewart, 34, was late for…

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America’s remaining lesbian bars are barely hanging on

It took Denise Cohen over two years to open Philadelphia’s last lesbian bar, the Toasted Walnut, and just 10 months for the Covid-19 pandemic to shut it down forever. “There is that hopelessness, that sense of loss that, you know…