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I used to be an anti-LGBT evangelical. Here’s why I changed.

Growing up watching the popular 1980’s sitcom ”Growing Pains,” I found myself going starry-eyed every time heartthrob Kirk Cameron appeared on the screen. When I learned that Cameron was an evangelical Christian, just like me, I admired him even more…

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First woman CEO has been announced for Pride Media.

Pride Media Inc., the largest publisher of LGBTQ-focused content in the United States, has named Diane Anderson-Minshall as its new chief executive officer, the first woman to ever hold the position at the company. Anderson-Minshall is a 30-year LGBTQ media veteran…

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Trump adviser told suicidal teen to change sexual orientation.

An LGBT+ teenager close to considering suicide came to her minister for guidance only to be advised to “change her sexuality”. That minister, Robert Jeffress, would later become one of US president Donald Trump’s advisers. Figures. Jeffress, an evangelical pastor…

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Lawmakers join forces to ban conversion therapy in Kentucky.

Led by a Republican legislator, a bipartisan group of Kentucky state senators proposed a bill that would effectively ban conversion therapy, a practice that attempts to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity, in the commonwealth. Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr, a Lexington…