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Anti-gay former GOP congressman Aaron Schock comes out.

Aaron Schock, the former Republican congressman who was long suspected of being gay, came out in an Instagram post on Thursday. “The fact that I am gay is just one of those things in life in need of explicit affirmation…

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Students say they were tricked into coming out by anti-gay school.

Students at the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University in Utah say that the school tricked them into coming out by erasing “homosexual behavior” from its honor code and then bringing back the policy several weeks later. Now they’re afraid of the…

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Joe Biden releases plan for LGBT equality.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, surging in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after a series of recent primary victories, today released his plan to advance LGBTQ equality. Biden promises to make enactment of the Equality Act during his first…

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Being LGBT and living inside a Polish ‘LGBT-free zone.’

A 19-year-old queer woman from Poland has revealed the heartbreaking reality of living in the heart of one of the country’s ‘LGBT-free zones’. A third of Poland has declared itself to be an official LGBT-free zone as local municipalities sign…