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Maps show where America’s LGBT families are thriving.

LGBT-identifying people and their families are an essential part of the American community. As part of our recent collection of 50 maps tracking American life today, we included the following two maps that look at how the LGBT community varies across states…

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Methodist dissenters sign letter of apology to gay community.

A group of United Methodists who want to see the denomination drop its ban on same-sex weddings has been circulating a letter of apology directed to the gay and lesbian community. The United Methodist Book of Discipline since 1972 has said that…

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Father who killed his son for being gay is let out of jail.

A father who is accused of killing his own son for being gay has been placed on house arrest. Now the victim’s mother is speaking out. In 2017, Giovanni Melton, 17, was shot and killed in Henderson, Nevada. His father Wendell Melton was…

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Gay man almost dies after taking erection enhancing drug.

Danny Polaris, a Welsh queer performance artist and sex and health columnist living in Berlin, has been in medical care since late July suffering from the effects of taking an erection enhancing drug alongside other medications, the reaction to which…

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Same-sex couples recorded as living together up by 50%.

The number of same-sex couples recorded as living together in the UK rose by more than 50% in the three years to 2018, official statistics show. The Office for National Statistics says there were 232,000 in 2018, compared with 152,000 in 2015. And more than a…