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Going to great heights as a gay pole vaulter.

He’s a 23-year-old Canadian pole vaulter who currently holds the world title at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships, which he won back in 2015. He’s also openly gay. That’s right, folks. One of the world’s best pole vaulters is a cute, gay ginger. He can propel himself higher than almost anyone else on the planet–5.93 meters (19.4 feet)!

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Seriously, who thought this was a good thing?

An online clothing company is under fire for creating rainbow swastika shirts in an effort to promote LGBTQ inclusivity… because never was there a greater advocate for tolerance and acceptance than Adolf Hitler. KA design unveiled the new shirts on Teespring. They feature rainbow swastikas with the words “peace,” “zen,” and “love.” In the description, the company said that they were “reclaiming” the symbol to represent LGBTQ people.

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76 gay men kicked out of Kuwait.

Kuwait has deported 76 homosexuals and shut down 22 massage parlours this year, the head of a morals committee has said. The gay men were apprehended during nationwide campaigns aimed at enforcing the law regulating massage parlours, Mohammad Al Dhufairi told the Kuwait Al Seyassah daily.

ENTERTAINMENT

White males dominate LGBT representation on TV

In what will come as a shock to not one living, breathing human, queer characters in television are mostly white males according to LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD. Presenting to television reporters at the TCA Press Tour on Friday, GLAAD acknowledged that, while we have certainly progressed since the inane queer plot lines of the early to mid 2000s, the majority of LGBTQ representatives on screen privilege white men (just like the rest of the world, quelle surprise!).

ENTERTAINMENT

At Disney, a whole new “lesbian” world.

Disney has introduced a multiracial two-mom family, voiced by lesbian actors. On a recent episode of the Disney Channel show Doc McStuffins, Wanda Sykes and Portia de Rossi each voice doll-like lesbian mothers helping their children cope after an “earthquake” shakes up their house.

POLICIES

Still no gay marriage in Australia.

Australia’s ruling party on Monday rejected a push to allow lawmakers to decide whether the country should recognize gay marriage, continuing a bitter political stalemate over the divisive reform.