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ICE releases two gay men with HIV after months in custody.

Immigration Equality and Lambda Legal say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday released from their custody two gay Cuban men with HIV. The men — who Immigration Equality and Lambda Legal identified as Ramón and Iván — asked for asylum in…

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Did Pence refuse to wear a face mask due to fragile masculinity?

On April 27, Vice President Mike Pence sparked mass criticism for touring a Mayo Clinic location in Rochester, Minnesota without a face mask — a violation of the hospital’s policy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and against federal guidelines dictating the best practices…

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Brazil’s president accuses WHO of turning kids gay.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of trying to turn children gay in a series of bizarre claims on Facebook. He later deleted the post. Like the Brazilian president’s claims about COVID-19, the statements weren’t true…

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‘Go to Holland’ is a new bizarre homophobic slur in Turkey.

Turkish homophobes have added a strange new slur to their vocabulary: “Yallah Hollandaya”, which translates to “Go to Holland”. The hashtag #YallahHollandaya began trending on Turkish Twitter after Ali Erbaş, the director of the Turkish institute for religious affairs (Diyanet)…

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How to win LGBT equality in the South.

In a time when COVID-19 has brought such heartbreak to so many and has so disrupted the normal routines of life, it can be hard to yank our attention from the moment we are in.  But something truly significant has…