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One of Trump’s anti-LGBT faith advisors has died.

Bishop Harry Jackson, a famously homophobic pastor who advised Donald Trump, died Monday at age 66, Religion News Service reports. Jackson had joined Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board during the 2016 presidential campaign and became a regular faith adviser to the Trump White…

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Hungary is pushing to ban adoptions for same-sex couples.

The new law would mean that only married couples can adopt children and single people can only adopt with special permission from the minister in charge of family affairs. Justice minister Judit Varga, a member of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s…

HEROES & HISTORY

The time when lesbian ‘obscenity’ reading was suppressed.

On 9 November 1928 Bow Street Magistrates Court was crowded. D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow had been successfully prosecuted for obscenity in the same courtroom 13 years earlier. Now it was the turn of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.  The perceived obscenity…

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Let the speculation begin. What’s next for Pete Buttigieg?

Just 48 hours after the Associated Press and various other news outlets declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 Presidental Election, speculation has already begun as to the cabinet Biden plans to assemble. Said cabinet, no doubt, will include a number…