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The first person to play in March Madness with 3 teams is also gay.

There’s only one player to ever play in March Madness for three different teams, and that’s Derrick Gordon. After being featured as a high school basketball player in the HBO documentary xx, along with Kyrie Irving and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Gordon…

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Gay people found ways to ‘marry’ long before it was legal.

Queers have been getting married to one another long before the Obergefell Supreme Court decision in 2015 paved the way for nationwide marriage equality, and I don’t mean that in a metaphorical “they were married in their hearts” sense. Lesbians, gay…

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Who was Gilbert Baker, iconic designer of the Pride flag?

Gilbert Baker, the iconic designer responsible for the LGBT+ Pride flag, was bullied at school for being gay “but set the stage way before it was ever a norm”, his old classmates have said. Baker was born in Chanute, Kansas, in…

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GOP Senator breaks with Trump to fight roll back of LGBT rights.

Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in health care and vowed she would work to overturn the move. As the LGBTQ community celebrated Pride Month…

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United Nations calls for global end to LGBT conversion therapy.

The United Nations released a report documenting the global reach and impact of gay and transgender “conversion therapy,” calling for nations around the world to work to ban the scientifically discredited practice. Conversion therapy practices, the U.N. document states, are…