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Athletes often struggle with mental health and being gay compounds it.

Athletics has always been a huge part of my life, tennis and baseball in particular. From as early as 6 years old, I was ingrained with the importance of having thick skin and being tough in order to be successful in athletics. Beginning in Little League baseball, I was taught that as a boy in sports I had to “man up”…    

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Sean Spicer: Trump’s pro-LGBTQ stance during convention speech was all a scam.

Sean Spicer’s new book, The Briefing: Politics, The Press, and The President, is spilling the beans on the Trump administration and one of the passages reveals what LGBTQ people have known all along. President Trump’s support for the LGBT community during his campaign was a sham.    

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Elton John and Prince Harry launch bid to ‘smash’ AIDS stigma.

Elton John joined forces with Britain’s Prince Harry to launch a $1.2 billion initiative on Tuesday to “break the cycle” of HIV transmission by targeting young men, among whom infections are on the rise. On the second day of a major international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, the two lent their mega-wattage star power to calls for…    

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This AIDS survivor will run his seventh Gay Games marathon in August.

At 65, Stephen Kovacev is still running strong and inspiring people across the community. I am a 65-year-old athlete living with AIDS on Cape Cod. I will be participating in the marathon at the quadrennial Gay Games that are being held this August in Paris. I will be proudly representing Provincetown at my eighth Gay Games!    

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Is your gay sexual position based on birth order?

If you’ve recently taken a human sexuality class or read any books about the origins of homosexuality, you may have heard that cisgender gay men tend to have more older brothers than cis straight men do. Not more siblings in general, not more older or younger sisters, only more older brothers.