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Cuban evangelicals push back against gay marriage.

A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island’s rapidly growing evangelical churches, whose members are expected to widely reject a state-proposed constitutional reform in a nationwide referendum this month…

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History: The first US TV commercial featuring a gay couple.

In 1994, Ikea ran this television commercial in major East Coast US markets. (Interestingly, the commercial’s art director was Patrick O’Neill who went on to be Chief Creative Officer at everyone’s favorite Silicon Valley start-up disaster Theranos!)…

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Wisconsin candidate compared bestiality to LGBT rights.

Wisconsin conservatives have a doozy of a candidate for state Supreme Court, and like so many on the Right these days, state appeals court Judge Brian Hagedorn has left a long paper trail of bigotry and hate. Hagedorn called Planned Parenthood “a wicked…