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Alibaba releases Chinese New Year ad featuring gay couple.

An ad by e-commerce and tech multinational conglomerate Alibaba has been praised by gay communities in China for depicting, and supporting, same-sex couples. The Chinese company’s ad was circulated on Chinese social media and showed two men returning to…

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TN clerks told not to marry gay couples by anti-LGBT lawyer.

Clerks in Tennessee have been operating under the assumption — one widely held by just about every legal authority — that they’re bound by the U.S. Supreme Court to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but one anti-LGBTQ lawyer in the state is now…

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Youth football coach calls homosexuality ‘mentally disgusting.’

A Florida youth football coach called homosexuality “absolutely wrong and mentally disgusting” on Facebook posts this weekend, calling on community leaders to stop a rise in LGBTQ presence. Johnnie Saunders, founder and coach of the Eustis Junior Panthers and of…

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Trump adviser praises Zambia over jailing of two gay men.

Donald Trump’s faith adviser Tony Perkins has praised the decision to oust a US ambassador who condemned an anti-gay law in Zambia. Tony Perkins, who serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, spoke out after US ambassador to Zambia…

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A surrogate blackmails a gay couple for parental rights.

Steven and Marc Winchester-Horscraft — a married gay couple from Shropshire, England — have launched a crowdfunding campaign to help cover the $34,100 in legal costs after the surrogate mother of their newly born twin girls refused to sign over parental rights unless…