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Sexuality is fluid until your late 20s, research finds.

Sexual orientation is fluid and continues to develop between the late teens and late 20s, a new study in the Journal of Sex Researchhas found. Researchers asked more than 12,000 people between 1995 to 2009 about who they were attracted to…

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‘Save Chick-fil-A’ bill moves forward in Texas.

A bill cast by conservatives as religious freedom protection and by liberals as a tool to discriminate against LGBT people was tentatively passed by the Texas House on Monday. The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill needs one more procedural vote from the…

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Rocketman review: Elton John movie isn’t your average biopic.

When the signature number in Rocketman, “I’m Still Standing,” kicks in at the end of the new Elton John biopic starring Taron Egerton, there is genuine euphoria to be felt. Not just at John’s rags-to-riches-to-ruin-to-redemption story, but because Rocketman is…

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Polish towns go ‘LGBT free’ ahead of bitter election campaign.

Teresa Drzewiecka grew up during World War Two, when German and Soviet troops battled for control of her town of Swidnik in eastern Poland. Now 83, she sees another threat to her country’s survival: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people…

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It’s 2019 & politicians still equate same-sex marriage to pedophilia.

Back before the U.S. legalized marriage equality in 2015, conservative politicians would warn that it would lead to pedophilia and man-on-dog marriage (right, Rick Santorum?). Of course, these hateful predictions never materialized. But even though American conservatives have mostly stopped doomsaying…