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NYC: Police abuse, arrest LGBT protestors at Stonewall march.

A peaceful “We Choose Freedom” march that started at Stonewall Inn last night descended into violence as police arrested marchers for a second night straight. Multiple videos of the scuffles with police were broadcast live on social media, capturing the…

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A major US city turned bluer with the election a gay POC mayor.

California Assemblymember Todd Gloria won his race for mayor of San Diego, becoming the first openly LGBTQ+ person and first person of color elected mayor of California’s second-largest city and the nation’s eighth-largest. Gloria was part of a blue wave…

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Four out candidates were just elected in Puerto Rico.

Four out candidates in Puerto Rico won their races on Tuesday. Ana Irma Rivera Lassen, a lesbian woman of African descent, was elected to the Puerto Rico Senate. Rivera won her race less than five months after Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa…

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UK: It’s not adultery if your straight spouse has gay sex.

A parliamentary petition in the U.K. is calling for the government to recognize same-sex affairs just as much as opposite-sex affairs when it comes to adultery. At issue is the U.K.’s Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, which only allows for married couples…