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“My Favorite Wife”, the hecka gay film starring Cary Grant and his (alleged) gay boyfriend.

If we’re to believe Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Cary Grant was hecka gay. In the new documentary based on his popular memoir, Full Service, Scotty Bowers, bisexual “pimp to the stars,” claims that he would regularly hook up with Grant and his alleged longtime lover…    

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Weekend Read: “You people who’ve got gay children, don’t mess up like I did”.

“Half-baked maggot.” “If he wants to be a female, make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.” That’s what adults in Oklahoma had to say this week about a transgender middle schooler named Maddie who used the girls’ bathroom during her first week at Achille Public Schools. She is 12 years old.    

HEALTH

The secret in my blood. A story about HIV and survival.

At the age of eight, Matt was given blood products contaminated with HIV. When he found out, he couldn’t tell a soul. Matt Merry can’t recall the exact words his mother used to tell him he was HIV-positive. He just remembers not knowing…    

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San Francisco City Hall a landmark in history of struggle and triumph.

A city hall, often, is a monument. It’s a massive stone landmark that can be a monument to the people and their rights, a monument of both justice and injustice, a monument to everything that is bold and progressive about government and everything that is mind-numbingly dull. A monument to oppression or to freedom, depending…

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Jack Dorsey’s plans for Twitter should worry LGBTQ+ people.

Twitter’s CEO says he is thinking about providing “alternative viewpoints” to reduce “echo chambers” on the app. Twitter, widely known for being a paragon of civil and healthy debate, announced Wednesday that it is sort of maybe thinking about changing up the way its users interact with the app. Founder and Alex Jones tolerator Jack Dorsey told the Washington Post that…

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Instagay: Gays use social media more than straight counterparts.

“There’s an app for that” started as a tongue-in-cheek saying recognizing the ever-increasing versatility of smartphone applications. We have gotten to the point in which there is an app for virtually everything — even coming out of the closet. “In the past, coming out tended to be a very personal experience, where you…