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Month: February 2019
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Texas Republicans say LGBT equality would ‘outlaw Christianity’.
Conservatives warn a new crop of pro-LGBTQ bills would “effectively ban the Bible” in the state of Texas. Right-wing websites have taken issue with eight pieces of legislation filed by Texas Democrats between Nov. 12 and Jan. 23. Writing for The Resurgent, far-right pundit…
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This Australian state plans to ban gay conversion therapy.
Victoria is set to ban gay conversion therapy, with the harmful practice being denounced by Premier Daniel Andrews as “bigoted quackery”. Mr Andrews made the announcement at the 2019 Midsumma Pride March in Melbourne, promising to become the first Australian state…
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The demographic marketers don’t know about. – Forbes
Inclusive marketing could open brands up to nearly $1 trillion in purchasing power, but the growing queer community is too often an afterthought by many brands. That is, unless, it’s June. A recent study, The $1 Trillion Blind Spot, done in collaboration…
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This ‘penis lie detector’ helped doctors conduct gay aversion therapy.
This black-and-white photograph of a medical container fitted with a long plastic tube might appear, at first glance, innocuous. But it’s a penile plethysmograph: a device used to measure changes in penis volume in response to erotic prompts…
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Migrants find refuge at lesbian-run shelter on Mexican border.
Cindy Campos was washing clothes on a concrete washboard in the courtyard of Cobina Posada del Migrante, a migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Mexicali, shortly after 4 p.m. on Jan. 27. Campos and her two children — her 6-year-old daughter…
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