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This study says everyone’s at least a little gay.

A new study confirms something we kind of already knew. Nobody is 100 percent straight. That’s right, your parents, your boss, and even that guy who called you a queer in high school are at least a little bit gay. Conducted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the study had participants watch different kinds of porn to gauge their reaction. It found that…

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Meet LifeSite News, one of the most anti-LGBTQ online outlets.

“Christian University Drops Morality Pledge After Top Court Said It Violated LGBT ‘Rights.’” “Irish Singer Who Voted for Gay ‘Marriage’ to Perform at Vatican’s World Meeting of Families.” “’Men Like Me Should Not Be Priests,’ Says Catholic With Same-Sex Attractions.” Those are some recent headlines on LifeSite News, a website that describes itself as…    

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A Kentucky TV station published a fake story about a gay church and locals flipped out.

Eastern Kentucky’s WYMT television station is not The Onion, but you’d be forgiven for the mistake. The station’s news director is apologizing after the outlet was tricked into publishing a fake news story about a gay church that was supposedly coming to the small town of Coal Run Village…    

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Gay men greenlighted for blood donation in Denmark.

Fear of the HIV virus has meant gay men in Denmark have been prohibited from donating blood for many years. But that’s about to change. The health minister, Ellen Trane Nørby, revealed today that the government will modernise the Danish blood donation system to better embrace gender equality. The new law will come into effect…    

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‘The king and his husband’: The little-known gay history of British royals.

The wedding of a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II is being heralded as the ‘first-ever’ same-sex marriage in Britain’s royal family. But is it? Ordinarily, the wedding of a junior member of the British royal family wouldn’t attract much global attention. But Lord Ivar Mountbatten’s has. That’s because Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is…    

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There is a new project uncovering South’s hidden LGBTQ history.

A new project is documenting the history of LGBTQ people in the Deep South, a region that once all but forced gays, lesbians and others to live in hiding. Bob Burns, who is gay, both lived through some of the toughest times for LGBTQ Southerners and documented them through years of activism. Now 66, he compiled…