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Why some straight women prefer watching gay porn

You know how tons of straight men enjoy watching lesbian porn and nobody bats an eye? The same doesn’t seem to apply to women who watch gay porn. This was made abundantly clear earlier this year when TikTok user @kirahofficial…

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Bay Area Reporter marks 50 years of covering LGBT news

The Bay Area Reporter distributed its first edition on April 1, 1971. While publisher Bob Aaron Ross may have chosen April Fool’s Day as as a light-hearted start for the gay community’s latest bar “rag,” the newspaper would go on to do…

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High percentage of LGBQ youth have attempted suicide

A new study by the Williams Institute at University of California Los Angeles School of Law finds younger LGBQ adults experience greater psychological distress and suicidal behavior than older LGBQ people. Researchers examined a representative sample of LGBQ people in…

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Anti-trans states might not get to host NCAA championships

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has issued a warning to states enacting or considering laws barring transgender athletes from competing under their gender identity — these locations may not get to host NCAA championships. “The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and…

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Judge to decide if gay couple’s marriage in 1974 is valid

Nearly five decades after they tied the knot, a gay Winnipeg couple is still fighting to have their marriage registered by the Manitoba government. “We’re dealing with irrational prejudice here,” said Chris Vogel, who married his love Richard North in 1974…