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Zoom take steps to stop homophobes from ‘zoombombing.’

Zoom will soon be introducing to security measures to prevent homophobes and racists from “zoombombing” video calls. Zoombombing, joining a Zoom meeting uninvited as a form of trolling, is becoming a fast-growing trend as many people turn to video calls…

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Netflix & Amazon join forces to clap back at LGBT bigots.

An anti-gay meme circulating on Twitter has Netflix and Amazon Prime joining forces to clap back at homophobes. The popular meme showed Patrick from the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants trying to shove a pumpkin down a funnel into Spongebob’s throat…

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Restaurant is using drag queens to deliver food to customers.

The Michigan City, Indiana restaurant Fiddleheads is now offering Dragside Pickup. Customers can order online or telephone and when they arrive to pick it up, a drag queen will bring it to their car. Owner Aaron O’Reilly, a gay man…

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Can LGBT bars survive the pandemic?

“The real truth of the matter is that I’ve been over my head for a while,” says Matthew Heath-Fitzgerald, co-owner Fat Mary’s in McAlester, Oklahoma. Situated in a town of around 18,000, Fat Mary’s is the lone gay bar serving the…

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Facebook pulls lesbian wedding ad because it’s a ‘social issue.’

Facebook has rejected an advert that celebrated a same-sex wedding during the first-ever Lesbian Visibility Week because of rules around “social issues, elections or politics”. The advert was posted by the Peter Tatchell Foundation, a human-rights charity, and celebrated unconventional…

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Condom factories are ‘essential’ during global condom shortage.

Condom factory employees are being sent back to work after manufacturing facilities were shut down worldwide in an effort to stop the rapidly spreading coronavirus. Now, with a global condom shortage looming, authorities are being forced to confront a potential…