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The mental impact of same-sex marriage on LGBT-couples.

A study from the University of Illinois’s Professor Brian Ogolsky has found that the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the U.S. has improved the mental health of LGBTQ-couples. Ogolsky and his co-authors “found that psychological distress dropped, and life satisfaction…

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Tim Cook just threw some epic shade at Trump.

Proving himself to be a master of subtle shade, Tim Cook has changed his Twitter name to Tim Apple — well, the Apple symbol, that is. The iBooks library is open. Donald Trump isn’t known as a particularly sharp president or…

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Report: ‘Gayborhoods’ are expanding and not disappearing.

Gay and lesbian spaces, commonly known as “gaybourhoods,” are expanding across cities, rather than disappearing, a new B.C. study says. Gaybourhoods, such as Vancouver’s Davie Village, are nothing new. A common perception has been that major cities have just one…

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Now a third person may have been cured of HIV.

A third person may now be HIV free after receiving a bone marrow transplant, leading to renewed hope that a cure could be found for the virus. The “Dusseldorf patient” appears to have no trace of the virus three months…

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Utah Republicans gut bill to ban gay cure therapy.

Republicans have gutted a bill that would have banned gay cure therapy in Utah. A group of lawmakers in Utah had fronted a bipartisan push to outlaw conversion therapy in the ultra-conservative state, putting forward a bill that would have…

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Catholic school denied young child because of gay parents.

A Prairie Village Roman Catholic grade school this year denied enrollment to a kindergartner who is the child of a same-sex couple. Now almost 1,000 people have signed a petition asking church leaders to reconsider. The petition over St. Ann Catholic…