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Another math teacher is outed as a gay porn star.

Last fall, the Internet blew up when it was revealed that porn star Carlo Masi was living in Rome and working as a math professor. Today, a new story surfaced outing Colt porn star Aaron Cage as working as a math professor in the UK. I now regret not paying more attention in math class. UPDATE: Rumor has it that President Trump is looking into suspending the math curriculum at schools throughout the country. 😉 Click here to read the story on Carlo Masi.

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Coachella co-owner with anti-LGBTQ history donates $1 million to Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Billionaire businessman Philip Anschutz, the entertainment conglomerate chairman known for bankrolling controversial right-wing causes, donated $1 million to Elton John AIDS Foundation’s LGBT Fund earlier this week, according to a press release. The fund “tackles the stigma, discrimination and violence that prevents LGBT people in Sub-Saharan Africa from accessing the health and HIV services they need.”

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John Oliver’s Pence-Trolling gay-bunny book sold 180,000 copies in two days.

Last Week Tonight is getting the last laugh in its (perhaps one-sided) feud with Mike Pence. On Sunday, John Oliver announced that staff writer _Jill Twiss and illustrator E.G. Keller had penned a picture book that purposefully apes the Pence family’s own children’s book about their bunny, Marlon Bundo.

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Comic slams Alec Baldwin’s embarrassing defense of SNL’s lack of gay casting.

Since Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975 there have been more than 150 cast members, only two of whom were openly gay. Current cast member, and arguably the show’s MVP, Kate McKinnon was an out lesbian well before she auditioned for the long-running sketch show — but there has not been an openly gay man in the cast in 32 years.

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Love, Simon may be a glossy fantasy, but it’s an important step forward for gay representation.

Love, Simon is many things: an upbeat and charming teen comedy, a leap forward for gay visibility in mainstream movies, and a therapeutic exercise for closeted teens who wish their parents were as accepting as Simon’s, played poignantly by Jennifer Garner and Fergie’s ex-husband. Kids will love it. Their parents will love it. Who wouldn’t love it?

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Saints & Sinners: LGBT writing fest is a mainstay of the New Orleans literary scene.

The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival began, like many good things in New Orleans, as a conversation among friends. Partners Paul Willis and Greg Herren were musing over the possibility of combining ways to reach out with information about HIV/AIDS with an LGBTQ Literary Festival, and next thing you know, novelist Jean Redmann had come up with the perfect title: “Saints and Sinners.”

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Gloria Estefan’s very gay year.

Why of course global queer icon Gloria Estefan — subject of Broadway musical On Your Feet, and muse to drag queens worldwide — has a daughter who is not straight. To close out 2017, Gloria’s 23-year-old daughter, Emily, celebrated — for the first time publicly — her one-year anniversary with girlfriend Geremy Hernández via Instagram.