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Anti-gay televangelist caught on tape admitting to gay sex.

Christian hypocrisy: Popular televangelist and notorious homophobe Ernest Angley is caught on tape admitting to having sexual relations with a man. Ohio.com reports: In 1996, internationally known televangelist Ernest Angley admitted to his assistant minister that he had had sexual relations…

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Oscar race most LGBT-inclusive in history, GLAAD says.

This year’s crop of Oscar-nominated films mark the highest number ever to represent LGBTQ stories, according to media watchdog GLAAD. Five of the eight best picture nominees are inclusive to queer communities, GLAADfound, including “A Star is Born,”…

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Prominent Mormon ex-gay author comes out as ex-ex-gay.

A prominent gay conversion therapist in the Mormon church has decided it’s time to start dating… men. David Matheson, an author and creator of programs designed to “help” men quit the “homosexual lifestyle,” was outed as an ex-ex-gay in a…

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How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBT community.

LAST WEEK, WE TALKED about how “geek” had become almost a cool term for a computer savvy, but perhaps socially inept person. That happened with little input from the “geeks” themselves. The same thing cannot be said of “queer.” Originally…

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Supreme Court allows transgender military ban to take effect.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared President Donald Trump’s administration to start barring most transgender people from serving in the armed forces, Bloomberg News reports. The justices, voting 5-4, put on hold lower court decisions that had blocked the administration’s planned ban from taking effect… DEVELOPING