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UK’s first openly gay Rugby League player talks about coming out.

February in the United Kingdom is LGBT History month, a month where we take a deeper look into the history of gay rights and the related civil rights movements. To commemorate this, we went down to speak with Keegan Hirst, who became the first openly gay Rugby League player when he came out in 2015.

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Toronto’s LGBT community confronts an alleged serial killer.

Last summer, after years of speculation over the fate of people who had vanished from their community, LGBT activists in Toronto organized a town hall to share information and talk about their worst fears. Two men had disappeared between April and June, and there were three earlier cases that made them suspicious. There was open speculation that there was a serial killer in the community.

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Anti-LGBT pastor appointed to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission.

Three new people could soon join the Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Gov. Rick Snyder announced the new appointments Friday. But one of them, a pastor from Jackson, is causing some controversy. A LGBT advocacy group and several democratic politicians say the pastor is outspoken about his anti-LGBT views, and his appointment to the commission is inappropriate.

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Supporting LGBT seniors with dementia on Prince Edward Island.

A new program is being developed to help seniors in P.E.I. who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer transition to a long-term care setting like a nursing home, especially those with dementia. The Alzheimer Society of P.E.I. received almost $25,000 from the federal government’s New Horizons Seniors Program…

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Gay marriage ruling boosts evangelical in Costa Rica vote.

An international court ruling saying Costa Rica should allow same-sex marriage has upended the Central American nation’s presidential race, turning an evangelical candidate who opposes it from an also-ran with just 2 percent in the polls into the leading contender in Sunday’s vote…

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A 91-year-old lesbian is America’s only remaining princess.

Move over, Britain, with your fancy royals and their tabloid-worthy scandals. America has a princess, and she’s a multimillionaire nonagenarian Hawaiian lesbian with an unpronounceable name, a stable of racehorses, a new wife and an angry lawyer. Meet Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa.