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Jason Collins honored at the Lakers’ first Pride Night.

LOS ANGELES — After he made history by becoming the first openly gay active male athlete in North America’s four major professional sports in 2014, Jason Collins thought there would be more professional gay male athletes to follow him.      

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This guy denies service to gay couples…and it’s legal.

The owner of a landscaping company discriminated against a gay couple in denying them service, brazenly posting his homophobia online for the world to see. Consider him seen. Stuart DiNenno runs Botanica Atlanta Landscape and Design, boasting of…    

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Stupid senior prank or LGBT hate?

Last week a group of high school seniors from Southern California used letter T-shirts to spell out “fags” and the n word in photographs, causing viewers to wonder if they need a tolerance class.      

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Daddy issues: Can you “age out” of the LGBT community?

Here is a personal and sometimes comical look at growing older in these gay times. Psychotherapist and journalist Matthew J. Dempsey has covered many topics in the LGBT community and this week he’s discussing one which affects every human being: age…    

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The first thing this gay man heard will make you cry.

Kerry Kennedy and Hayward Duresseau were traveling when tragedy struck. Duresseau contracted bacterial meningitis during a trip to San Francisco and was hospitalized for weeks as he recovered from the life-threatening illness.