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Egypt searches Red Hot Chili Peppers fans for Pride flags.

Egyptian officials searched concertgoers at a Red Hot Chili Peppers show over the weekend for Pride flags, according to multiple reports. Thousands attended the performance in front of the Giza Pyramids on Friday, and many took to Twitter to share…

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A shocking list of hate groups in each state.

Each year since 1990, the SPLC has published an annual census of hate groups operating within the United States. The number is a barometer, albeit only one, of the level of hate activity in the country. The hate map, which depicts…

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GOP tries to strip trans protections from law, fails miserably.

Despite fierce Republican opposition, Democratic lawmakers successfully defended federal LGBTQ+ protections that will benefit incarcerated trans people in particular. The House Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize an expanded version of the Violence Against Women Act on Wednesday, The New York…

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The extraordinary rise of the drag brunch.

It is 1pm on an unseasonably warm Sunday in February, and I am eating a BLT in Dalston, east London, while a 6ft 4in drag queen dressed as Geri Halliwell questions a bearded Scottish man about when he last got laid…

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The strongest man in the world marries his boyfriend.

Rob Kearney, one of the world’s strongest men, had quite a week that ended with him marrying his boyfriend, Joey Aleixo, on a beach in Australia on St. Patrick’s Day. Days after taking first place at the 2019 Arnold Pro Strongman…