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One of The Queen’s bodyguards has a gay porn past no one seems to mind.

Over the last month we’ve heard of several gay men connected to the British Royal Family. There’s Ollie Roberts, the Queen’s 21-year-old gay footman who accompanied her during her public appearance on her birthday; Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who will soon marry in the Royal Family’s first-ever same-sex wedding; and now…  

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Happy LGBTSTEM Day!

The First International Day of LGBT+ People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths. The IOP are supporting the first International Day of LGBT+ people in science, engineering, technology and maths, launched by the groups Pride in STEM, House of STEM, and InterEngineering. This will be called LGBTSTEM Day, and it will be celebrated on 5 July 2018.  

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Theresa May wants to be seen as an LGBT ally.

Prime Minister Theresa May wants to be seen as an LGBT ally. The Prime Minister has had a history of voting in favour of anti-LGBT laws – including voting against the repeal of the controversial Section 28 law back in 2002 – but yesterday (July 3) the Government published an LGBT survey and the results shocked her.  

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A Latina lesbian could really become governor of Texas.

Some people might think a liberal Latina lesbian has no chance to unseat an incumbent Republican governor in a conservative state like Texas. But some people aren’t Lupe Valdez. “Everybody’s telling me this is an uphill battle,” says Valdez, the Democratic candidate for governor of the Lone Star State, challenging anti-LGBT incumbent…  

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Happy Independence Day! Meet the American Revolution’s gay hero.

“Baron Von Steuben” was responsible for whipping the the U.S. military into shape when things were looking bleakest. Maybe the most important military leader in the American Revolutionary War was Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben.  

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Facebook group for gay muscle bears has a “No Africans, no Asians” policy.

A lot of members did not see these new questions when they originally joined. A public Facebook group has many in the LGBT community wondering about a racist question on their member request form. “Muscle Bear” is a public group for people in the community who like hirsute muscular gay men…