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Long road to motherhood: Lesbians fight for IVF in Europe

It took Leonie Plastina and her wife Sonja years of careful research – poring over LGBT+ rights laws and private medical costs in various European countries – to fulfil their dream of having children. The Swiss couple consider themselves lucky…

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The language of sexuality – Was Shakespeare bisexual?

New research out of the United Kingdom has come to a provocative and questionably accurate conclusion: William Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language (or, for that matter, any language), was a bisexual man. Sir Stanley Wells and…

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A win for high school trans athletes in federal court in CT

In a rare Sunday ruling, a federal judge in Connecticut today dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of four young women who are cisgender, challenging the transgender inclusive policy of the state scholastic sports agency…

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Montana weaponizes ‘religious freedom’ against LGBT people

The Republican signed controversial Senate Bill 215 on Thursday (22 April), otherwise known as the Montana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), into law. The bill would enable service providers and individuals to freely deny certain goods and aid to LGBT+ people…