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Do the Kavanaugh hearings show he is against gay marriage?

Today, HRC responded to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s repeated refusal to answer basic questions from Senator Kamala Harris on whether the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing marriage equality throughout the United States, was decided correctly.    

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Gay people are not welcome here.

There are still 71 countries where being gay is banned – and in nine of these you could be executed for a same-sex relationship. It has been more than 50 years since Britain took its first steps to decriminalise homosexuality – but there are still…    

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10 LGBT-themed movies to see this fall.

Fall Movie Preview 2018: Freddie Mercury, Oscar Wilde and Lizzie Borden all get the big-screen treatment. “Lizzie” (Sept. 14)  Chloe Sevigny stars as the 19th-century axewoman who killed her father and stepmother — but also had a romantically charged relationship with…

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LGBT bias in long-term care.

An assisted living facility may have violated the Fair Housing Act when it failed to protect a lesbian senior from physical and verbal abuse by other residents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Aug. 27 found that…    

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India unbans gay sex. Time to celebrate.

THE prudish wording of India’s colonial-era penal code of 1860 has long cast a baleful shadow over gay people. Section 377 banned “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”. This was taken to bar homosexual intercourse along with…