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Month: July 2018
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LoveLoud Festival reaches $1 million goal for LGBTQ charities.
When Dan Reynolds set out to promote this year’s LoveLoud music festival, he had an ambitious goal in mind. The Imagine Dragons frontman, who teamed up with Tegan and Sara’s Tegan Quin to make this year’s festival a reality, wanted to raise $1 million to donate to LGBTQ-centric charities like The Trevor Project, Encircle and The Tegan and Sara Foundation.
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Gay couple bumped from airline seats to make room for straight couple.
When gay businessman David Cooley boarded Alaska Airlines flight 1407 from Los Angeles to New York this past weekend, he expected to enjoy the airline’s top-rated service and the amenities that accompanied his Premium Class ticket. Instead, however, he said he and his travel companion were subjected to “humiliation” instead. “I have never been so…”
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Swedish Armed Forces celebrates Pride with rainbow camo.
‘We stand up for the values we are tasked with defending’. The Swedish Armed Forces has laid on a series of events for the country’s EuroPride celebrations. The Försvarsmakten (Swedish Armed Forces) shared a message of solidarity on social media this week as the country hosts the EuroPride celebration in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
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Jeff Sessions’ ‘Religious Liberty Task Force’ declares holy war on LGBT people.
The attorney general’s new ‘Religious Liberty Task Force’ will ensure that the Trump administration’s program of discrimination against LGBT people and others continues unchecked. Sadly it is no exaggeration, no hyperbole, to say that Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a holy war on LGBT people, LGBT equality, and LGBT rights on Monday.
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The Gay Games start this weekend. Here’s what you need to know.
This will be the 10th Gay Games and the third in Europe. Gay Games 10 kicks off this Saturday in Paris with an Opening Ceremony and Opening Party that are sure to energize the entire city for the event. What are the Gay Games? The Gay Games are a quadrennial (every four years) event…
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