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Eurovision pulls plug on China after censorship of LGBT act.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest, the riotously camp transcontinental music competition, have banned a Chinese TV station from broadcasting Saturday’s final after it censored an LGBT-themed performance. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the contest and distributes it to broadcasters around the world, said it had taken the action after Mango TV…

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Why a tech CEO toured the South with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

In 2009, when my co-founders and I moved our company to San Francisco from Copenhagen, Denmark, it was challenging to uproot our lives and leave home. But despite uncertainty, we were happy to find we quickly felt at home in San Francisco’s innovative and forward-thinking culture.

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Stoli to unveil Harvey Milk vodka bottle and mural in San Francisco.

A new mural honoring the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk will be unveiled in San Francisco’s Castro district May 22 as part of the local festivities taking place this year to mark Harvey Milk Day, an annual day of special recognition in the state of California.

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Ireland’s gay dance on Eurovision shows world that ‘love is love’.

For the first time in five years, Ireland has advanced to the finals of Eurovision Song Contestant — thanks to a moving gay dance performance. Ryan O’Shaughnessy, an Irish contestant, sang “Together,” a song about a failed relationship, at the semi-finals Tuesday in Lisbon.

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The powerful message behind Lena Waithe’s rainbow outfit at the Met Gala.

On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute hosted its annual gala, where hundreds of celebrities, designers, and tech moguls showed up to see the museum’s new exhibition. This year’s exhibition is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” which includes more than 40 religious items that explore Catholicism’s influence on fashion.

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Joy Reid’s missed opportunity.

MSNBC host Joy Reid offered a complicated on-air apology on her show on Saturday over homophobic rhetoric she is alleged to have used in posts on a now-defunct blog. She didn’t apologize for writing the posts; in fact, she didn’t admit to writing them at all, oddly explaining that…

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Don’t be a complete jerk on gay dating apps.

I’ve never agreed with Pat Benatar that love is a battlefield, but it can definitely feel that way on gay dating apps. The rejections are often brutal, and even successes can be hard-won. When a guy would open a conversation with the classic “into?”…