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Month: August 2018
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The witch hunt for gay priests.
It is not surprising that Catholics are furious about the latest sex abuse crisis, which began, most recently, with accusations of abuse and harassment against the former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick; deepened with the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing 70 years of abuse in…
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Meet Italy’s First Transgender Gondolier.
Alex Hai, whose passenger-fans include Juliette Binoche, faced years of legal battles and harassment — but now that’s in the past: “People who harassed me are scared of me.” In 1996, Alex Hai made history by becoming Italy’s first female gondolier. Now Hai is making history all over again.
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Who is the bisexual nominee for the US Senate?
Kyrsten Sinema has become the first ever openly bisexual Senate candidate for a major party. Arizona’s Democratic nominee, who has served three terms in the House of Representatives as the only bisexual member of Congress, could now become the only openly bisexual person to ever be a Senator. More than 400 LGBT+ candidates are…
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Record number of gay, bi college football players.
As the 2018 college football season starts this week, there are a seven players who publicly identify as gay or bisexual, a record. At one time in the recent past, having any out players in college football was rare, so…
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The top 10 highest grossing LGBTQ movies might surprise you.
Despite the considerable progress that LGBTQ representation has made in the past few years, GLAAD is anything but, well… happy. Earlier this year, the queer media organization discovered that films released by Hollywood’s major studios in 2017 featured the lowest percentage of LGBTQ characters that we’ve seen since 2012.
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