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Grenell hid money he took from a corrupt European millionaire.

Richard Grenell — the out gay U.S. ambassador to Germany who Donald Trump recently named as acting director of National Intelligence — has failed to report his past work on behalf of a corrupt and mega-wealthy Moldovan politician named Vladimir Plahotniuc…

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A third of Poland has now been declared an ‘LGBT-free zone.’

A third of Poland has declared itself to be an official “LGBT-free” zone as local municipalities sign a pledge adopting resolutions against “LGBT propaganda”. Nearly 100 Polish municipal or local governments have now proclaimed themselves to be “free from LGBTI ideology”…

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The teacher suspended for being gay won a big settlement.

A Texas teacher who was suspended for showing her students a photo of her then-fiancé has reached a $100,000 settlement with her school district, her attorney announced Tuesday. Stacy Bailey will donate $10,000 of her settlement money from the Mansfield Independent School District…

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Five GOP lawmakers voted to keep an outdated sodomy law.

Maryland’s House has voted to repeal the state’s long-defunct sodomy law, but five Republican lawmakers voted against doing so. The Maryland House of Delegates voted on February 20 to repeal the state’s sodomy law, which punished sex “against the order of nature”…