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Month: April 2018
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Gus Kenworthy was the star at Miami Beach Pride and it was wild.
Olympian Gus Kenworthy just crowd surfed at Miami Beach Pride – and the crowd went wild for him. Falling backward in a leap of faith, the baying LGBTI community below caught him. Just moments before jumping into the crowd, they were shouting for him to take his top off.
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Transgender runners can race Boston Marathon under identified gender.
Transgender runners who qualify can take part in the Boston Marathon as their identified gender, according to Boston Marathon officials. The issue has garnered attention following a profile in Canadian Running of three transgender women signed up for the race. Comments to the article included reservation from readers that the elevated testosterone levels would potentially…
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One man’s mission to make America understand bisexuality.
Brian Dodge was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in the mid-’90s when he asked why the word “bisexual” was missing from the school’s “Lesbian Gay Male Programs Office.” “We can only have so many letters in an acronym,” one official told him, by way of explanation.
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GLAAD host summit on advancing LGBTQ representation in the entertainment industry.
At the first-ever Creators Summit presented by GLAAD and the Creative Artists Agency, producers, writers, content creators and industry execs gathered to discuss the future of diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality in entertainment at the agency’s headquarters in Los Angeles. (The daylong event kicked off the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which will be held in LA on Thursday.)
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Jimmy Kimmel apologizes that his gay joke offended those in the gay community.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel apologized to those in the gay community who took offense to a joke he made in the middle of an ongoing feud with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I most certainly did not intend to belittle or upset members of the gay community and to those who took offense, I apologize,”…
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