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Gay man stays celibate in order to donate blood and bring awareness of the FDA’s policies against gay men.

A gay man in Buffalo, N.Y., stayed celibate for 12 months before donating blood Wednesday. Jordan Moll-Vigrass, 22, gave blood at the Gay Alliance Blood Drive at the American Red Cross headquarters after a year of abstinence from sex, as per the Food and Drug Administration’s policy on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.    

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This gay right-winger believes Fox News is too pro-LGBT.

There are many things one could say of the Fox News Channel — that it has a reliably conservative bent and that it’s Donald Trump’s favorite news source, for instance. But now a right-wing pundit — who is himself gay — is claiming it’s become too pro-LGBT.    

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‘Pimp to the stars’ slept with Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy—and changed Hollywood.

Scotty Bowers ran a brothel out of a gas station and slept with dozens of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Inside his ‘Secret History of Hollywood’ and why we should believe his stories. About 45 minutes into the new documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, the most unbelievable monologue you’ll ever hear is delivered. And it’s all true. Allegedly.    

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More LGBT people are filing discrimination complaints.

More gay, lesbian and transgender people are finding protection with the 2013 extension of federal anti-discrimination coverage to sexual orientation and gender identity, particularly in states that don’t have similar laws. Researchers with the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Employment Equity reported on these findings in the recently released “Evidence From the Frontlines on Sexual…    

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‘The Miseducation Of Cameron Post’ trailer shows the world of gay conversion therapy.

A new trailer for “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” dives into the troubling world of gay conversion therapy. The trailer centers on Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz), a teenage girl who is sent to conversion therapy camp after she gets caught making out with another girl on prom night. The film is directed by Desiree Akhavan and based…      

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To prevent HIV, young gay and bi men need better sex education.

“A lot of people are under the impression that everyone knows about HIV, but we really don’t do a great job of educating young, gay and bisexual men about HIV,” says Brian Mustanski, director of the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University.