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Landmark speech by U.N. chief backing LGBT community.

Gay rights campaigners on Wednesday hailed a watershed speech by the United Nations chief Antonio Guterres in support of the “LGBTI community”, but said words must be followed by action. In the first ever address by the head…      

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Canadian Olympian and Team USA’s lesbian heroes marry.

Canadian Olympic gold medallist Gillian Apps and longtime archrival and captain of the U.S. Olympic championship team Meghan Duggan faced off once again over the weekend, this time at an altar. Apps, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, married…      

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What they really mean by ‘religious freedom’.

The call to protect religious freedom — often code among social conservatives for the ability to discriminate against LGBT people — continued to be a rallying cry at the annual anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit, where attendees declared support for…        

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What would Jesus do? Not this…

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the hate group challenging LGBTQ protections all over the country, has a new client: the Downtown Soup Kitchen (“Hope Center”) in Anchorage, Alaska. Because the charity wants permission to…