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Tennis great: LGBT teaching is controlled by ‘the devil.’

Former tennis champion Margaret Court has reiterated her controversial opinions on the LGBTQ community and transgender athletes, claiming LGBTQ teaching in schools is controlled by “the devil.”Court, a Pentecostal pastor in Western Australia, made the comments during a sermon at the…

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20 LGBT celebrity coming-out stories that moved us in 2019.

Even at the end of a decade marked with tremendous social and political milestones for LGBTQ people, the power of witnessing queer public figures live as their authentic selves can’t be underestimated.  Though the 2010s brought marriage equality to the U.S. and…

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The far-right thinks the Impossible Whopper turns men into women.

Fans of far right-wing media are spreading the untrue (and somewhat transphobic) rumor that Burger King’s plant-based Impossible Whopper contains enough of the female hormone estrogen to make cisgender men grow breasts. The rumor started because of an article written by…

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For evangelicals, supporting Trump is now an article of faith.

Christmas time is perfect for reflecting on your faults and extending forgiveness to those with whom you disagree…. … unless you’re a Trump-backing evangelical. Just as Trump has captured the Republican Party, he now has captured the white evangelical movement…

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Facebook disables some misleading ads on HIV drugs. (finally)

Facebook has reversed course and quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis…