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Singapore upholds the criminalization of homosexuality.

Singapore’s High Court today ruled to uphold the criminalisation of homosexuality, the Human Dignity Trust have confirmed. The decision would have overturned an anti-gay colonial law instated in 1938 under British rule. Gay rights activists were challenging the law, following success…

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LGBT Olympic hopefuls react to the delay of the summer games.

This year’s Summer Olympics were supposed to bring us the most publicly out LGBTQ athletes in the history of the Olympics. That dream isn’t canceled, it’s just postponed, as the IOC announced the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo will now take place…

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Liberty University’s Falwell gets holy hell as students fall sick.

Jerry Falwell Jr. last week partially reopened his Liberty University ― an evangelical Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia ― despite the spread of the coronavirus.  Now, The New York Times reports that nearly a dozen students have symptoms that could suggest infection…

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HIV+ service members targeted by Trump win partial victory.

A federal judge has refused the Trump administration’s request to remove the Modern Military Association of America from a lawsuit challenging discrimination against HIV-positive service members, meaning a greater number of troops will be protected from discharge now and…

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Now an Iraqi cleric is blaming gay marriage for the pandemic.

An Iraqi cleric has blamed the global coronavirus pandemic on the legalisation of same-sex marriage, missing a very obvious point. Homosexuality is not illegal in Iraq but discrimination is widespread and LGBT+ people are frequently victims of vigilante justice and…

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International AIDS Conference to be held virtually.

Organizers of the 2020 International AIDS Conference on Friday announced the event will be held virtually because of the coronavirus. The conference was scheduled to take place in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., from July 6-10. International AIDS Society President Anton Pozniak and…