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Month: April 2018
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Can painkillers turn you gay?
A young man claims that he has become gay after taking pain-killers when he broke his foot in a go-karting accident. Unemployed Scott Purdy, 23, says he was a hot-blooded heterosexual and enjoyed dating women before he started taking Pregabalin, also known as Lyrica.
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Gay novel “Less” wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
A novel about an aging gay man’s adventures abroad has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Andrew Sean Greer’s Less chronicles the life of Arthur Less, a failed novelist on the cusp of turning 50. When Arthur skips town to avoid his ex-boyfriend’s wedding it leads to a life-changing trip around the world.
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Judge: Trump’s ban on transgender troops on hold until trial.
A U.S. judge in Seattle has ordered President Donald Trump not to ban transgender troops from serving in the military, saying it’s unclear whether recent changes to his administration’s policy are constitutional. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman was one of four judges nationwide who blocked Trump late last year from overturning an Obama-era directive allowing transgender troops to serve openly.
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Carnival Cruise Line is funding efforts to bring back gay marriage to Bermuda.
In February, Bermuda made world headlines when it became the first nation in the world to repeal same-sex marriage. Just nine months after the British territory first legalized same-sex marriage, Governor John Rankin signed the Domestic Partnership Act (DPA) which revoked marriage rights for same-sex couples. The Rainbow Alliance of Bermuda decried the law, saying that it created “separate-but-equal status under the law.”
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Morocco World Cup bid masks homosexuality ban.
A FIFA task force arrived in Morocco on Monday to inspect a World Cup bid that obscures one potential impediment to hosting the 2026 soccer showpiece: Homosexuality is a criminal offense in the north African country. An Associated Press review of 483 pages of documents submitted to FIFA found Morocco failed to declare its anti-LGBT law as a risk factor…
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