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Pastor: Bisexuals are like white people going blackface.

A millionaire pastor from New Zealand, Murray Watkinson, delivered a deeply biphobic rant in a sermon earlier this month, in which he essentially compared bisexuality to blackface. During the sermon, at the Celebration Church in Christchurch, he touched upon the…

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British Museum adds five important LGBT artifacts to collection.

The British Museum has added five new LGBT+ artefacts to its collection, improving the diversity of its collection with priceless pieces of queer history. The pieces, which will be permanently displayed at the museum, include a “nine-bob note” from the…

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Understanding the generation gap within the LGBT community.

During Pride Month, generations within the LGBT community are continuing conversations about what is important to gay youth versus those who remember the Stonewall riots and those who survived the AIDS crisis. Differences between generations — perceived or real…

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One of the largest conversion therapy groups is giving up.

Hope for Wholeness, a prominent ex-gay ministry that boasts one of the most expansive networks of conversion therapy offerings in the United States, is disbanding. The Spartanburg, South Carolina-based organization, founded in 1999 as Truth Ministries, told members in an email…

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Former head of the Log Cabin Republicans now works for Trump.

A former president of Log Cabin Republicans with a reputation for defending President Trump has landed a job as spokesperson for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Gregory Angelo, who served as…

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How globalization has transformed the fight for LGBT rights.

On a visit to Senegal in 2013, Barack Obama held a press conference with the Senegalese president Macky Sall. “Mr President,” asked an American journalist, “did you press President Sall to make sure that homosexuality is decriminalised in Senegal? And…