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Longest study yet finds adult kids of lesbian moms are doing fine.

Young adults raised by lesbian moms show the same mental well-being as those who grew up with heterosexual parents, a new study suggests. The findings, published in the July 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, come from the largest, longest-running study to track development of kids in “planned lesbian families.”    

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Nebraska football hires anti-gay activist and coach to lead player development.

Ron Brown has used his Christianity to attack and demean gay people. Now he’s mentoring football players. Nebraska Cornhuskers football has just hired their former coach Ron Brown to lead player development and work with the school’s Life Skills program for players. The school’s press release said, via Corn Nation:    

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Parents of dead trans student refuse to claim body, so LGBT pals step in to pay for funeral.

UPDATED | San Francisco’s LGBT+ community has raised enough money to pay for the funeral of a trans man, who reportedly took his own life, because his family are refusing to to claim his body. Daine Grey, 22, a student at City College of San Francisco, passed away on July 2. According to a GoFundMe page set up following his death…    

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Ex-Ohio State wrestlers sue school claiming it ignored sexual abuse.

Four former Ohio State University varsity wrestlers sued the school on Monday, claiming its athletic doctor sexually abused them and others over 20 years and the school failed to stop it. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, claimed the university ignored abusive behavior by the late Dr. Richard Strauss and said…  

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Christian activist claims the “B” in LGBT stands for “bestiality”.

Quick: What does LGBT stand for? If you think the “B” means “bisexual,” you’d be wrong… according to Religious Right activist Star Parker. She said on the Vocal Point radio show yesterday that it stood for “bestiality” — because that’s really the same thing as being gay, lesbian, or transgender. She added that the “Q” went from Queer to Questioning, therefore…    

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The Cold War purge of gay Government employees—and why it matters now.

Striking parallels exist between the 1950s Lavender Scare and President Trump’s de facto trans military ban. The anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s and ‘60s are now widely known, but Washington’s persecution of gays and lesbians working across the State Department has been relegated to a minor footnote in history.