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Popular soccer chant with anti-gay slur now banned.

The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) has partnered with GLAAD to announce a new campaign meant to curb fans from participating in a popular homophobic chant and provide a more inclusive environment for LGBTQ sports fans. This new measures come…

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Only 20 states use this method to reduce LGB youth suicides.

While all 50 states have anti-bullying laws on the books, only 20 of them (and Washington D.C.) include specific protections for sexual minorities. Researchers from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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Is PrEP to blame for the rise in sex-related infections?

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rebounding in developed countries after being firmly in retreat for decades. The consequences can be devastating. Syphilis, for example, causes more than 200,000 stillbirths and infant deaths worldwide annually, and years later can lead to blindness…

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Bohemian Rhapsody will screen in China…just not the gay parts.

Bohemian Rhapsody will air in China – or most of it anyway. According to The Hollywood Reporter, around a minute of the Freddie Mercury biopic will be cut to appease the Asian country’s notoriously anti-LGBTQ censors. Sources say these scrapped scenes include…