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Nazi Germany’s forgotten victims, homosexuals.

At 8 PM on the evening of Friday, July 13, 1934, German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler stepped to the speaker’s lectern of the Reichstag in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House to explain his murderous conduct during the recent Nazi “Blood Purge” against the…

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See what you missed at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Thousands of people in bold and sparkling outfits gathered in the centre of Sydney, Australia on Saturday for the annual LGBT Mardi Gras parade. Organisers estimated that more than 12,000 people took part in the event, which featured nearly 200 creative floats…

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Washington is the tenth state to ban the ‘gay panic’ defense.

Washington has overwhelmingly passed a ban on the ‘gay and trans panic’ defence in murder trials. The bill passed in the state’s Senate by 46-3 votes, reports The Seattle Times. The bill is named after 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen, a trans teen who…

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Drag queen charity bingo is so dangerous, it’s a felony.

When the state called Benjimen Blair in for questioning, he decided it might not be prudent to come dressed as his drag queen alter ego, Sylvia O’Stayformore. “I figured these are the cops, right, so I should play it straight,”…