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Romanian referendum to ban gay unions fails.

A referendum to establish a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Romania has failed – after only a fifth of voters bothered to turn out. Romanians were being asked whether they wanted the constitution changed to specify that…    

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The gay black American who stared down Nazis for love.

In Italy at the end of 1944, the Negro 92nd Infantry Division of the United States Army discovered two gaunt men who claimed they had escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. One man was thin and blonde with a “scholarly…      

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They killed a 10-year-old boy after he came out.

When 10-year-old Anthony Avalos told his mother that he “liked boys,” his mother and her boyfriend tortured him to death. Now they’re facing the death penalty for their crime. When the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded…    

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What predicts intentions for LGBT discrimination?

Beliefs about the immutability, universality, and discreteness of homosexuality predict intentions to discriminate against gay men and lesbian women, according to research published in the Journal of Homosexuality. “I am interested in contributing to a…    

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These cities are a ray of hope for LGBT community.

Today, HRC announced that a record-setting 78 cities across the nation earned perfect scores in the seventh annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI), meeting the most demanding and pioneering criteria since the report’s debut in 2012…

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LGBTQ people don’t exist according to Archbishop.

Philadelphia Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput, one of the more anti-LGBTQ voices in American Catholicism, says the church should avoid using term “LGBTQ” in official documents — and he blames liberal beliefs about sexuality for the church’s abuse crisis.