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Month: January 2019
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Trump’s attorney general nominee ran ‘HIV camps’.
When Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr served as AG under George H.W. Bush, he allowed hundreds of HIV-positive people to be housed in “uninhabitable” conditions at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay detention center. Over 300 Haitian immigrants fleeing violence…
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New York joins 14 other states to ban conversion therapy.
The New York state legislature voted Tuesday to ban conversion therapy, a debunked practice that attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation. The measure, which prohibits the practice on minors, passed the state Senate by a vote of 57-4 and the Assembly…
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22 of the gayest pictures of LGBT people as kids.
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to show us a picture that says “I’ve Always Been Gay” and here are some of their best submissions…
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Grindr president shuts down news division months after criticism.
Grindr has effectively shuttered INTO, the hookup app’s LGBTQ+ news site, according to a statement from the INTO team released to press. An anonymous source tells Out that Grindr President Scott Chen laid off Into’s entire editorial and social staff…
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Why Lily Tomlin refused to come out on the cover of Time.
Lily Tomlin has revealed why she turned down the chance to come out on the cover of Time magazine in 1975. Appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday (January 15), Tomlin explained her decision to host DeGeneres, who made history when…
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