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A university used electroshock therapy on gays to cure them.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, had a way of treating LGBTQ people: electroshock therapy. In a revealing story from the Belfast Telegraph, a former patient given the pseudonym “John” shares his experience after he…

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1 in 5 LGBT adults isn’t registered to vote, despite high stakes.

Some 21% of LGBTQ adults aren’t registered to vote, according to a study released this week by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Williams Institute. That’s compared to an estimated 17% of non-LGBTQ adults. The finding, part of a larger poll of 2,237 people that…