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Two Catholic high school teachers forced out for being gay.

A revealing, unsettling, puzzling announcement came from Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien on the eve of a three-day weekend honoring two American presidents who helped define, redefine and sustain our freedoms. It read: “Two teachers, Paul Danforth and Michelle Beatty, have…

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Trump official defends relying on faith groups to fight HIV/AIDS.

A top Trump health official, speaking with the Washington Blade this week at a meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, defended working with faith-based organizations to achieve the administration’s goal of beating HIV/AIDS. Assistant Secretary of Health Rear Adm…

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Michigan AG trolls Limbaugh with pic of her kissing her wife.

Michigan’s first openly gay statewide elected official, Attorney General Dana Nessel, has trolled Rush Limbaugh for Valentine’s Day by tweeting a photo of her kissing her wife, Alanna Maguire, on election night in 2018. Nessel’s tweet came in response to remarks…

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Gay bathhouses could soon return to San Francisco.

Nearly four decades after they shuttered amid a court fight at the height of the AIDS epidemic, gay bathhouses could return to San Francisco under a policy change being sought by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, according to the…