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Month: June 2018
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Check out these 39 famous gay dads for Father’s Day.
This Father’s Day, we send some love to famous gay dads. Celebrity gay fathers, whether they’re actors, activists, musicians, or politicians, are showing the world that love is what makes a family. On the next pages, learn about high-profile gay dads such as Denis O’Hare, Matt Bomer, Karamo Brown, Ricky Martin, and many more.
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The organization that hounded Alan Turing to death is now looking for gay recruits.
Intelligence agency GCHQ has taken out an ad for new recruits in a gay magazine – 64 years after the country’s greatest codebreaker was hounded to death for his homosexuality. The service has appealed to gay men and women to join, saying: “Alternative perspectives spark the innovative thinking needed to achieve our mission.”
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These Mormon fathers are supporting their LGBT kids.
When Jake Abhau’s son, Jon, came out as gay at age 13, he was stunned, for many reasons — not the least of which was the family’s adherence to the Mormon faith. His shock, though, was very quickly overtaken by the fiercely defensive love that Abhau had for his son.
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Why anti-gay violence and domestic abuse qualify as persecution in asylum law.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently upended decades of U.S. legal precedent by asserting that women fleeing domestic violence will not generally qualify for asylum. To do so, he challenged the principle that women victims of domestic violence are members of a “particular social group.”
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Is the White House briefing room ignoring LGBT media?
In June 2018, for the second time since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to issue a proclamation recognizing the LGBTQ community at the start of Pride month — and for weeks, Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson had been trying to ask why the administration apparently broke with a pattern set by its predecessor.
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