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Conservatives are in a meltdown over having a gay cabinet member.

Richard Grenell was appointed as the acting Director of National Intelligence, a Cabinet-level position that supervises all 17 agencies within the United States government with covert or intelligence operations. He is the first out person to serve in a Presidential administration’s cabinet…

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Taiwan had nearly 3,000 same-sex weddings in first year.

Typically drab and droll household registration offices across Taiwan exploded with colour after the courts legalised marriage equality, paving the way for nearly 3,000 same-sex weddings in a single year. One couple after another embraced their new legal right to register their…

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The renaissance of Harlem was as gay as it was black.

Black LGBTQ people have profoundly shaped American culture — and yet, it’s rare to see their full identities acknowledged. In Black spaces, revolutionaries like Angela Davis and James Baldwin are celebrated for their pro-Black activism while their queerness is left out…

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Students thought BYU was now OK with gay people. Not so fast.

Students kissed people of the same-sex in celebration of Brigham Young University’s (BYU) new honor code, which no longer prohibits “homosexual behavior.” But the school is saying there was “some miscommunication” about what it means, leaving LGBTQ students confused about…

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How bearded Buttigieg caught fire on gay social media.

Images of Pete Buttigieg with a beard are turning heads on social media. A triptych of photographs circulating Facebook with the hashtag #BeardedButtigieg depicts the gay presidential candidate from what appears to be his time in the U.S. Navy with…