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U.S. judge rules against Trump policy restricting transgender troops.

A U.S. court on Monday ruled the Trump administration could not enforce an updated policy barring certain transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, becoming the second court in the country to rule against the government since it unveiled the policy in March. President Donald Trump announced on March 23…    

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Facebook bans InfoWars and Alex Jones after calls for drag queens to be burned alive.

Notorious anti-LGBT conspiracy theory outlet InfoWars has been banned from Facebook for violating hate speech rules – after calling for drag queens to be burned alive. The pro-Trump outlet is best known for outspoken conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who pushes a large number of conspiracy theories to his online following via his InfoWars shows.    

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Gay Days are coming back to Disneyland in October.

Disneyland’s annual unofficial Gay Days celebration is scheduled this year to run Friday, Oct. 5, to Sunday, Oct. 7, in and around the Anaheim resort. This is the 21st year of the event, during which organizer Eddie Shapiro said people attend the theme parks from around the world, wearing red T-shirts to show their solidarity.    

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Trolls are spreading falsehoods about the LGBT community supporting pedophilia.

James Woods momentarily emerged from irrelevance earlier this week to share a picture of a poster adorned in LGBT pride colors, with text reading “Pedophiles are people too. Because love is love.” What the actor either chose to ignore or was just generally ignorant of was that this poster was likely…    

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Closing of San Francisco’s male strip club leaves few of these classics left in America.

Despite record-setting profits, San Francisco’s iconic and last male strip club Nob Hill Theatre will close its doors after 50 years of business on Sunday, August 19. Owners Larry Hoover, 65, and Gary Luce, 63, plan to retire to Palm Springs, Bay Area Reporter confirmed, and the building’s new owner will not be using it for an adult club….    

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More LGBTQ candidates in 2018 are running than ever before, so get ready for the “rainbow wave”.

A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for office in 2018 — a movement The New York Times is calling a “rainbow wave.” More than 400 LGBTQ candidates are running this year, according to the Times, with most of them running as Democrats, and a few as Republicans. Although many LGBTQ candidates are running in opposition to…