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Gay director estimates he’s had up to 20,000 sexual partners.

Turns out Joel Schumacher‘s box-office figures aren’t the only sky-high record he’s got. The 79-year-old director of smashes like “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Batman Forever” and “The Lost Boys” recently gave a wide-ranging interview to Vulture in which he…

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Evangelical preacher accused of offering male intern $$$ for sex.

A prominent evangelical preacher is facing allegations of sexual misconduct, and his response has only added to the strangeness. The allegations target prominent speaker Todd Bentley, and originate with a former colleague who has accused Bentley of various sexual misdeeds…

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Students forced to remove pro-LGBT t-shirts at school.

Several students from Martin County High School in Kentucky were forced to change clothes after wearing pro-LGBT+ t-shirts to school to support the queer community. Martin County student Lilly Vance told WYMT that those wearing the t-shirts on Thursday, August 22, were told…

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Does Pete Buttigieg have a lesbian problem?

Campbell Spencer, a lesbian and political consultant, moved to Washington in the 1990s to work in LGBTQ advocacy. She wooed gay and lesbian voters for Al Gore, worked a stint in the Obama White House and now serves on the…

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Ohio joins Trump’s fight for LGBT workplace bias.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joined the Trump administration last week in its argument before the United States Supreme Court that LGBTQ individuals are not protected from workplace discrimination by federal civil rights laws. Yost, a Republican, announced Aug. 23 that he had…