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Aetna sued for discrimination against LGBT couples

Insurance giant Aetna is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company discriminates against LGBTQ couples seeking fertility treatment. The company requires couples to actively try to get pregnant for six to 12 months. Opposite sex couples can simply say they’ve…

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Ford responded to homophobia with a very gay rainbow truck

When someone commented about the new Ford Ranger Raptor truck in Germany with an anti-gay slur, Ford responded in just the right way. According to Ford, “the #VeryGayRaptor was initially created digitally” after someone on social media described a blue-colored…

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Your LGBT history is now being deleted on eBay

One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the…

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Blame this anti-LGBT group for OnlyFans’ ban on porn

An anti-LGBTQ+ conservative group is reportedly linked to OnlyFans’ recent decision to ban most sexually explicit content from its platform starting in October. The subscription-based platform, which has provided a safe avenue for online sex work to its 2 million content…

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The Lesbian Bar Project comes to the rescue for a second year

The Lesbian Bar Project, a New York-based group founded by lesbian filmmakers Erica Rose and Elina Street, raised $117,000 last year to help the nation’s lesbian bars stay in business during the height of the COVID pandemic. Among the bars receiving…