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Czechia: Two-thirds of citizens now support marriage equality.

Support for marriage equality in the Czech Republic is soaring, with around two-thirds of the public backing same-sex marriage, a new poll published Thursday showed. In results that researchers branded as “encouraging”, a MEDIAN agency survey showed that the majority of…

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The gays have taken over The Dolly Parton Challenge.

Dolly Parton might have kickstarted the “LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder” challenge, but the gays have definitely made it their own. The “9 to 5” singer went viral this week by sharing four photos of herself for each of the social media networks, ranging from…

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Judge apologizes when his homophobic past surfaces.

A Republican judge in Ohio is apologizing for extremely homophobic letters he wrote to his college newspaper. Maumee Municipal Court Judge Dan Hazard wrote the vitriolic letters when he was a student at Ohio State University in 1992 and 1993…

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It’s 2020 and 16 states still have sodomy laws on the books.

In 2020, there are 16 US states that still have sodomy laws against “perverted sexual practice” and “crimes against nature”. According to ACLU, laws against sodomy were originally designed to prohibit any sex that was not for procreation, and so included crimes…