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How does the LGBTQ mind age?

A new study finds queer seniors get dementia at different numbers than straight people, and makes clear more research is necessary. Most of us don’t like to think about getting older, although we admit it beats the alternative. But there are a lot of older LGBT people — and will be even more in the next decades — and as we age…    

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British pilot ‘saves life of gay asylum seeker’.

A gay asylum seeker has said a pilot “saved his life” by refusing to fly him back to Nepal. On Sunday (August 5), Jagat was meant to be deported back to his home country – where he was outed in a national newspaper – despite his mother having threatened that she would “cut you into pieces” if he came back.    

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on LGBTQ discrimination show she has hope for the future.

When the Supreme Court handed down its 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission earlier this year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made it clear in her dissent that she strongly disagreed with the court’s decision to rule in favor of a baker who, citing religious beliefs, refused…    

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Here’s how ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ depicted a gay man in 1973.

“My Brother’s Keeper” was an “absolutely groundbreaking” TV moment, Matt Baume finds. Some 48 years after its premiere, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” is considered a classic series that broke fresh ground in terms of how women were portrayed on television. The show, which premiered in 1970…    

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LGBT Britain eyes rights post-Brexit.

Campaigners worry about what will happen once Britain has left the union and is longer bound by the Charter of Fundamental Rights. When John Walker discovered he could not leave his work pension to his same-sex partner in the event of his death, it kickstarted an 11-year legal battle with his former employer and the British government…    

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Gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy introduces puppy rescued from South Korean meat farm.

Gus Kenworthy has posed a topless photo of himself with a dog which he saved from a South Korean dog meat farm. The silver medal-winning freestyle skier revealed earlier this year that he and his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas had rescued a dog from the country – where he competed in the Winter Olympics for the first time since he came out in 2015 – and called her Beemo.