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Putin assures: There is no sexual orientation bias in Russia.

Russianpeople are treated equally regardless of race, gender, or belief, President Vladimir Putin emphasized on Friday. “Russia has never had, nor does it have, nor will it ever have anything connected to restricting anyone’s rights based on sexual orientation, race or…

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Putin takes potshots at US embassy because it flew a Pride flag.

Vladimir Putin has implied that employees at the US embassy in Moscow must be secretly queer because they raised the Pride flag last month. The embassy raised the flag during Pride Month despite an order from Donald Trump forbidding embassies…

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Reddit bans anti-trans ‘feminist’ community for hate speech.

Reddit has slashed thousands of communities that traffic in hate speech, including forums for Trump supporters and anti-transgender activists. One of the communities, called subreddits on the platform, was a popular forum for so-called “transgender exclusionary radical feminists” or TERFs…

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Republican who came out as gay in Utah ousted in primary.

A Republican voted out of office in a primary after coming out as gay in conservative Utah says a backlash during the campaign has him questioning whether his party has a place for him. Rancher Nathan Ivie announced his orientation…

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How ’80s-era HIV contact tracing can help kill COVID-19.

Yesterday, testifying before Congress (BTW, isn’t Senator Rand Paul an ass?), Dr. Anthony Fauci said he would not be surprised if the United States reached 100,000 positive cases a day. That is mind-blowing. Also, at the hearing, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the…