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The Boston Marathon’s gender policy is on the right track, transgender runners.

Run as you are. The Boston Marathon is one of a growing number of global sporting events that is allowing participants to compete under their self-identified gender, as long as that is the same gender that they also qualified under. So that means a transgender runner such as Amelia Gapin can toe the starting line of perhaps the most hallowed…

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Toronto’s accused gay serial killer charged with 7th murder.

Toronto landscaper Bruce McArthur, already accused of killing six men in the city’s Gay Village, has just been charged with another murder. The victim, Abdulbasir Faizi, was among the remains police recovered in planters at a home McArthur worked and stored equipment, reports The Hamilton Spectator. Toronto police struggled to identify Faizi’s remains, even releasing a photo “after exhausting other methods of identifying the man.

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Federal judge in Texas says LGBT workers are protected from employment discrimination.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that workers can’t be discriminated against based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. Judge Lee Rosenthal — the chief judge in the Houston-based Southern District Court of Texas — ruled that workers are protected from such discrimination under the federal employment law that protects workers based on their gender, The Dallas Morning News reported.

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Liberals in Canada face backlash over ban on blood donations by sexually active gay men.

The Liberal government is facing a new push to end a ban on blood donations by sexually active gay and bisexual men — a policy that Justin Trudeau’s own election platform called discriminatory. An electronic petition recently filed with the House of Commons, E-1589, calls on the Liberal government to stop a practice it says imposes a stigma on gay and bisexual men.

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There are few out LGBT athletes at the Commonwealth Games for good reason.

A former Olympic diver has revealed how hard it is for Commonwealth Games athletes to come out as gay, partly because being homosexual is illegal in some of the competing countries. Australia’s Matthew Mitcham said there was likely many athletes still ‘in the closet’ out of the 6,600 at the Games, who hadn’t come out due to fear of being punished.

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Sex offender accused of extorting men on gay dating sites.

A registered sex offender in Washington is accused of collecting explicit videos from men he met on gay dating sites, then threatening to send the videos to their friends and family if the men don’t send him more. The Kitsap Sun reports Christopher Malik Longmire was charged last week in Kitsap County Superior Court with three counts of second-degree extortion with sexual motivation…