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U.S. same-sex couples get marriage licenses without bigotry.

After the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky at the time, refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples. Roy Moore, then a State Supreme Court Justice, followed suit, demanding Alabama county officials…

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Church lady: ‘Naturally ungrateful’ gays can’t celebrate T-day.

The founder of a “pro-family” organisation in the US has said that gay people can’t celebrate Thanksgiving because “ingratitude forms a core ingredient of the ‘LGBT’ community”. Linda Harvey, who founded Christian group Mission: America, wrote a piece for Christian website…

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Trump forgets LGBT people in World AIDS Day proclamation.

In a proclamation Wednesday recognizing World AIDS Day, President Trump again has omitted any recognition of LGBTQ people as among the groups primarily affected by the epidemic. Such was the case in proclamations issued in 2017 and 2018. But the latest absence of…

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47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to charges of homosexuality.

Forty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some…

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The Trevor Project is getting $6 million to help LGBT youth.

Today’s young people seem to be more comfortable than ever expressing their diverse gender and sexual identities. In fact, a 2016 study found that 52% of teenagers do not identify as exclusively heterosexual. With all of this progress, though, it is important not to…