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The folklore surrounding what makes a person gay.

There has always heard a lot of folklore surrounding LGBTQ people. For example, many claim that left-handedness is linked to homosexuality, or how many male siblings one has.  Now, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of …

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Your NYC WorldPride calendar of events is here.

June marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event that launched the beginning of the modern international LGBTQ rights movement. Naturally, for its golden celebration, queer folks from all corners of the world are flocking to New York City…

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The Vatican takes another shot at the LGBT community.

The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies. The document, published during LGBT Pride Month, was immediately…

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YouTube continues to allow racist and homophobic slurs.

It’s a moment of reckoning for Big Tech. YouTube’s is coming, due in no small part to Vox. Vox journalist Carlos Maza’s decision to speak out about harassment he’s been facing for years on YouTube has resulted in a…

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Old crime stories show how the press stoked fear of gay men.

In 1935, a man named Paul Ivar was murdered in Los Angeles. Though he was the victim, newspapers scrutinized his supposedly “shadowy past.” The New York Daily News called him “a neurotic young man with a flair for feminine accoutrements and effeminate companions.” …