5 THINGS TO KNOW
Month: March 2019
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The insane reason some Democrats are attacking Buttigieg.
After weeks of glowing press coverage of Pete Buttigieg as he’s shot up in the Democratic 2020 field, the “Pete’s Not Perfect” posse has kicked into high gear with an unusually personal criticism: Buttigieg, they say, isn’t gay enough…
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Amazon, Google and others decry Texas’ anti-LGBT bills.
Major U.S. corporations including Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook have joined with other business interests operating in Texas to denounce a slate of bills in the state legislature that they argue would harm queer Texans and damage the state’s economy…
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‘The Swastika Swishery’: The WWII gay spy scandal.
In the early part of the 20th century, brothels were commonplace in many neighborhoods in New York City, but in 1942 an inconspicuous two-story redbrick town house at 329 Pacific Street—a run-down block near the border between Brooklyn Heights and downtown Brooklyn…
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US Christians pour millions into Europe, boosting the far right.
US Christian right “fundamentalists” linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of “dark money” into Europe over the last decade, according to a new analysis by openDemocracy…
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Gay athletes attend prom together…in rural Tennessee.
In April 2018, my boyfriend, Evan, and I set out to purchase boutonnieres for our first prom together. As he drove us down the winding roads of our small Tennessee town, Morristown, my mind was swimming with questions about the upcoming…
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