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There are no gays in Malaysia, tourism minister claims.

The Malaysian tourism minister has claimed that gay people do not exist in his country. Government minister Datuk Mohamaddin bin Ketapi made the claim while speaking to the media at an event in Germany on March 5, according to Deutche Welle…

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Mr. Rogers was bisexual according to his friends.

A recently-released biography of Fred Rogers says that the children’s television icon was bisexual. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King was released this past September and contains a page that discusses how Rogers…

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Doctors announce a second person has been ‘cured’ of HIV.

For the second time, doctors appear to have put HIV into “sustained remission” with a stem cell transplant — effectively curing the recipient. Their work, which was published in Nature and will be presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and…

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‘Slate of Hate’: Anti-LGBT bills introduced in Tennessee.

A series of bills introduced in the Tennessee Legislature have LGBTQ activists outraged over what they have deemed a “slate of hate.” Twelve separate bills — six companion bills each in the House and the Senate — have been introduced in the…

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Marvel is searching for its first gay superhero.

This month Marvel will debut their first female-led superhero movie, Captain Marvel, hopefully altering the landscape of comic book films forever — much to the chagrin of misogynist trolls. Last year Black Panther became the biggest solo superhero film of all time…

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Do marketers use gay ads to enrage the right to promote brands?

Cottonelle and Walmart have both recently produced social media video commercials starring gay men. Predictably, social conservatives flipped out, calling for boycotts and for their god to mete out punishment against the evil doers. According to Curtis Sparrer, Bospar PR principal…