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The lesbian pioneers who fooled Spain’s Catholic Church.

There was something unusual about the fresh-faced groom that day. The priest at the San Jorge church in A Coruña, north-western Spain, didn’t see anything special, and the smattering of relatives in attendance weren’t saying anything. But both ‘Mario’ and his bride, Marcela, were women.  

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United States: State laws threaten LGBT equality.

The rash of new “religious exemption” laws passed by state legislatures around the United States represent a thinly-veiled assault against the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the absence of robust nondiscrimination protections, these laws function as a license to discriminate rather than a good faith attempt to protect religious liberty and should be repealed.  

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LGBTQ women to watch out for in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Gus Kenworthy and Adam Rippon made history in 2018 by being the first openly out, gay male athletes representing the United States in the Winter Olympics. It’s been a momentous year for LGBTQ representation, with a reported record number of 15 out LGBTQ athletes, according to Outsports.  

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Are gay dads ‘treating women as mere breeding machines’?

An anti-LGBT column in the Daily Mail has incited controversy for urging, in its title, “please don’t pretend two gay dads is the new normal.” In the piece published by the British tabloid, writer Richard Littlejohn criticized Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black, a married binational couple…  

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Gus Kenworthy’s kiss with boyfriend on NBC greeted with acclaim.

When the American freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy shared a kiss with boyfriend Matthew Wilkas at the bottom of the hill before Sunday morning’s ski slopestyle qualifying, neither was immediately aware the moment was captured by NBC’s cameras. But the significance of an openly gay male athlete kissing another man on primetime network television during one…  

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The mystery of Toronto’s gay village killings.

For years, there were whispers in Toronto’s gay community about a serial killer stalking the community. Now that one of their own has been charged with the murders of five missing men, they wonder why the police didn’t act sooner. In a small park in the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village, about 200 people assembled in the snow to mourn the victims of an alleged serial killer.