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Christian woman tries to ‘exorcise’ gay teen in chilling video

A Christian woman subjected a gay teenager to a conversion therapy exorcism in a disturbing viral TikTok video. TikToker @seliabrookes posted her first ever video on Wednesday (12 May), and it has already racked up almost 3,000 comments and more than 45,000 likes…

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LGBT health bias protections set to clash with religion shield

New guidance from the Biden administration to protect LGBT people from discrimination in health care is likely to collide with the strongly held religious beliefs of some doctors and the federal law in place to protect them. Under Section 1557 of…

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Univ. of Oklahoma drops king & queen, picks 2 guys as royalty

The University of Oklahoma’s homecoming court has gone gender neutral for 2021. First reported by KOKH, the student body and faculty selected Justin Norris and Reece Henry as their homecoming royalty, ditching the traditional binary-based titles of king and queen…

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Oregon is now the 14th state to outlaw LGBT panic defense

Lawmakers in the Oregon House of Representatives with unanimous support during a House vote on Thursday passed Senate Bill 704, a measure that bans the “gay panic” or “trans panic” defense in criminal court proceedings. The law’s language states that “discovery…

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Gay ‘chartthrob’ Steve Kornacki inks mega-deal with MSNBC

For years, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki has engendered fandom for his deep knowledge of electoral minutiae and sports facts, as well as his humble wardrobe of Gap khakis and dress shirts. Now his nerdy charm will play to even…

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Judge rules man is not a sex offender for consensual gay sex

A man challenging the constitutionality of Idaho’s “infamous crime against nature” law will no longer have to register as a sex offender in Montana. In 1994, Randall Menges pleaded guilty to having sex with two 16-year-old boys shortly after he turned 18…