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Gay man beaten and insulted by police wins huge settlement.

A gay man who sued the Palo Alto Police Department in California just settled for $572,000. Gustavo Alvarez said that police officers used excessive force when he was arrested for allegedly driving with a suspended license in February 2018. His lawyers released…

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University refuses to fire professor for anti-gay comments.

Eric Rasmusen, a professor of business economics and public policy at Indiana University’s (IU) Kelley School of Business, thinks that women are probably “destroying academia,” black students are “generally inferior academically” to white students, and gay men “cannot avoid abusing students”…

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New Trump surrogate says he has a problem with gay coworkers.

Clarence Mason Weaver, who was recently named to an advisory board position in President Donald Trump’s campaign, is a right-wing commentator who believes that homosexuality is “evil” and an “abomination.” Weaver has said that people have “got to worry about…

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Are U.S. Christians driving homophobia in Uganda?

In recent years homosexuality in Uganda has become an increasingly volatile political and social issue. Last month an LGBTQI activist was murdered in his home and Ugandan police detained 16 men on suspicion of homosexuality and human trafficking…

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What? People Don’t Believe Chick-fil-A?

In a beautifully crafted op-ed in CNN, Richard Morgan writes that because Chick-Fil-A never actually apologized for hatemongering, we may wish to withhold our kudos for this week’s semi-declared move away from funding anti-LGBTQ organizations. He points out that…