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GOP bill to ban US embassies from raising gay pride flags.

House Republicans led by Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina have put forward a new bill that would prevent U.S. embassies around the world from flying flags other than the American flag. The bill was introduced after a few recent incidents in which a rainbow flag symbolizing gay pride and LGBT rights was flown above some embassies.      

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Dame Edna’s shocking comments about the transgender community.

Noted reactionary Barry Humphries is still doing his best to ruin any warm memories you may have had of Dame Edna, and this week, he’s copping it for comments he made about transgender people in an interview with conservative publication The Spectator…      

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LGBT community stages nationwide protest against surrogacy law in Israel.

A nationwide demonstration staged by the LGBT community began on Sunday morning over their exclusion from the Surrogacy Law that was passed last week which allows single mothers and heterosexual couples who cannot have children to use the services of a surrogate mother to become parents.    

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New ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ trailer notes Mercury’s bisexuality and AIDS.

There was some outcry back in May over the first Bohemian Rhapsody trailer not having much in the way of gay content. Sure, there was a brief moment of Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury touching another man’s hand, but folks argued that the equally brief moment of Mercury hugging another woman and a context-free shot of Lucy Boynton glancing at Mercury…    

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Advocates blast Trump for erasing LGBTQ people from federal websites yet again.

Advocates are blasting the Trump administration for removing resources on anti-LGBTQ discrimination in healthcare settings from a federal website. In a pattern that has become familiar over the past year and a half, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) scrubbed information regarding Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) web page.    

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Is eating a banana whole … gay? Fragile masculinity’s bizarre new ‘hetiquette’.

Rapper Wiz Khalifa’s insistence that ‘you gotta break it in pieces, bro’ is but one example of gender expectations affecting food. Rapper Wiz Khalifa thinks heterosexual men shouldn’t eat bananas straight out of the peel. Khalifa shared his fruity thoughts on the Breakfast Club radio show earlier this week, telling host Charlamagne Tha God that men…