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Buttigieg: Marrying my husband ‘moved me closer to God’.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a 2020 presidential hopeful, took at a jab at Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday while noting that his marriage to husband Chasten has “moved him closer to God.” Buttigieg, during a speech at…

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The strange case of the missing gay Disney Mouseketeer.

In 1955, Disney began airing The Mickey Mouse Club, a kid’s TV show with young “Mousketeers” performing in musical, dance and informational segments. One of its original Mouseketeers, 13-year-old Dennis Day, would later come out as gay, marry his boyfriend…

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Yes, it matters that Pete Buttigieg is gay.

Pete Buttigieg plays harmonica, guitar, and piano! He speaks Norwegian! Whoa, he actually speaks eight languages! I heard he even wrestled a bear live on CNN. None of the gee-whiz stories solidifying into the Buttigieg canon make any difference to me…

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Archbishop again denounces gay-friendly ‘Santa Muerte’.

A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshipping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or “Our Lady of Holy Death,” saying he fears some mistakenly believe the Grim Reaper-like figure is a…

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Sen. Doug Jones’ gay son has a message for Alabama.

Oh, Alabama. While Roy Moore might not be in public office, it appears that doesn’t mean his anti-LGBTQ politics have left us. Recently, the Senate of my home state voted unanimously to stop issuing state marriage licenses. This bill, now being…

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New approach has doctors ‘kicking and killing’ HIV cells.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburg report a new “all-in-one” immunotherapy approach that could lead to a new vaccine to help HIV-positive people to fight the virus without having to take daily medications. Their new approach exploits another virus, Cytomegalovirus…