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Food for thought. Jimmy Kimmel shows why the same-sex wedding cake case is important.

Jimmy Kimmel continued his socially conscious comedy Thursday night by showcasing why it’s wrong to deny the LGBTQ community a wedding cake through a powerful sketch. The ABC late-night host kicked off the bit by explaining to his audience that a court in Kern County, California, ruled…

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Coachella owner doesn’t just back anti-LGBT groups, he wants to ban legal pot, too.

Coachella is known for bringing major headliners to the stage, but the annual music festival came under fire last year when it surfaced that Philip Anshutz, owner of Coachella’s parent company, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), funded notorious anti-LGBT organizations like…  

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Out on Broadway: A visual legacy celebrates LGBT experience in the theatre.

Hudson County Community College Department of Cultural Affairs currently presents the exhibition Out on Broadway: A Visual Legacy, celebrating the LGBT experience in theatre, through March 2 at the College’s Benjamin J. Dineen, III and Dennis C. Hull Gallery in the HCCC Library in Jersey City. Curated by designer James E. Crochet, the exhibit features characters and costumes from a host of Broadway shows.

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Gay conversion therapy film has won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize.

The Chloe Grace Moretz film “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” has won the Sundance Film Festival’s grand jury prize. Awards were announced Saturday evening in Park City, Utah. Adapted from a 2012 novel by Emily M. Danforth, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is about a teenage girl who is sent to a gay conversion center. Moretz dedicated the award to LGBTQ survivors of sexual conversion therapy.

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Memorializing LGBT history, one podcast at a time.

When Brad Dunshee moved to San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood five years ago, he inadvertently moved next to a queer landmark. The now-43-year-old digital media professional discovered his apartment was down the block from the former Compton’s Cafeteria, where an LGBT uprising took place in 1966, three years before the Stonewall riots.

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I’m christian, conservative & gay…and I work for Fox News.

Fox News contributor Guy Benson is going viral for a video in which he talks about being a gay Christian conservative. “When it comes to my political beliefs, my orientation is only one part of the story. It’s not the totality of who I am,” Benson said in the video for Prager University. “Some unimaginative leftists like to believe this qualifies me as a self-hating gay person. This is so boring.”