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The Mr. Gay World ‘divorce’ is getting very, very messy

Pageant organizers have hit former Mr. Gay World winner Louw Breytenbach with a gag order after Breytenbach made comments against the organization behind the pageant last year. Breytenbach has hired an attorney after he said he was served with the…

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Factbox: Monkeypox cases and deaths around the world

More than 80 countries where monkeypox is not endemic have reported outbreaks of the viral disease, which the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency, as confirmed cases crossed 31,400 and non-endemic countries reported their first related deaths…

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GOP governor to force teachers to out their LGBT students

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin affirmed his support on Tuesday for measures that would require teachers to notify parents of their children’s sexual orientation or gender identity, regardless of the students’ consent.  The move was justified under the pretext of…

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Heroic librarian who opposed removal of LGBT books honored

A New Jersey high school librarian has been awarded a national prize for opposing the removal of LGBTQ books from school libraries in the face of backlash and harassment. In June, the American Library Association bestowed its Lemony Snicket Prize…

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The number of LGBT Asian candidates has doubled in the US

Janani Ramachandran, 30, says she’s always lived at the intersection of two isolations.  As an openly gay South Asian woman growing up post-9/11, she felt that few people could understand her specific experience — and that representation was nonexistent…