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Prosecutor fired after violent, racist, and anti-LGBT comments.

Texas assistant attorney general Nick Moutos has been fired after his violent, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-Muslim tweets – many of which promoted bizarre conspiracy theories – got media attention. “How is it ‘Bigoted’ to say that #LGBTQ is an #Abomination?” Moutos tweeted earlier…

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Cadets can sue the Pentagon over ban on HIV+ service members.

On Wednesday, a federal judge denied a request from the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two former U.S. military cadets challenging a policy banning service members with HIV from deploying overseas — thus making them ineligible to continue…

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Why do so many gay couples open up their relationships?

As gay men, we’ve been through a lot. For so many years we were deep in the closet, fearful of being arrested, and threatened with pseudo-medical cures. Then came the Stonewall uprising, the declassification of homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder…

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The Gay Games might not be heading to Hong Kong in 2022 after all.

Officials with Gay Games Hong Kong 2022, the committee organizing the quadrennial international LGBTQ sports event scheduled to take place in Hong Kong in November 2022, announced at an online webinar on Aug. 27 that a “contingency planning committee” has been created to…

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Gay senator called pedophile over sex offender bill.

A gay California state senator is being subjected to homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs and even death threats over his bill to reform the state’s sex offender law to treat gay and straight sex equally. Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco…