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How being gay or lesbian impacts your earning power.

Another important characteristic of individuals, and one that is the subject of anti-discrimination laws in many countries, including Australia, is sexual orientation. In contrast to the mountain of research on gender pay differentials, there have been very few studies that have…

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Government database holds student sexual orientation info.

The Department for Education is holding named records detailing the sexual orientation and religious beliefs of more than 3 million students and graduates, thousands of whom were not told that their sensitive data had been shared. Data obtained through a freedom of information request…

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TV presenter calls gay people “worse than animals.”

Peace TV faces a ban from the UK after a presenter claimed that gay people were “worse than animals.” The complaint arose from a segment called The Valley of the Homosexuals. Ofcom has ruled that four of the station’s programmes have…

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What exactly is a “friend of Dorothy?”

For LGBT people of previous generations, a “friend of Dorothy” is a familiar saying, but for many younger queer folks, the only place where they may have heard the term is that scene in Cluelesswhen Murray tells Cher that her charming…

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Scam PACs keep pocketing millions from gullible donors.

The right-wing is home to a phenomenal number of scuzzy money-raising rackets. Disgraced (but not gone) televangelist Jim Bakker is selling Silver Solution gel, which promises to “get rid of all venereal diseases.” Milo Yiannopoulos was hawking “milk thistle extract” as a…

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Dying gay man marries his best friend in a bedside ceremony.

Hey When Alfredo Garcia III checked into Chicago’s Seasons Hospice MacNeal Inpatient Center on July 18, he was dying of stage IV liver cancer and had Hodgkin’s lymphoma spreading through his lymphatic system. Bryan Pottow, director of the hospice, asked Garcia…