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Two men arrested for painting slurs on rainbow crosswalk

Two men have been arrested in connection to hateful graffiti spray-painted on a high school’s brand new rainbow crosswalk. Witnesses said that around 18 to 20 people were at a gathering in the school’s parking lot late on Saturday night, and several…

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FYI: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is actually not about a gay teen

The internet was abuzz when the first trailer for the upcoming musical Dear Evan Hansen premiered yesterday, and while most of it was wildly positive, there was also plenty of confusion tossed in there.  First things first: one thread of…

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TikTok pushes hate speech directed against LGBT people

Social video sharing app TikTok’s notorious algorithm has been caught circulating anti-LGBTQ+ content, adding to its long track record of homophobic actions. A new analysis from progressive media watchdog Media Matters is drawing attention to an uptick in anti-LGBTQ+ content…

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LGBT history has been made in the capital city of Nebraska

After Monday’s swearing-in of new Lincoln City Council members, three of the seven members are drawn from the LGBTQ+ community, and one of them was elected council chair, the first out official in that position. James Michael Bowers, a gay man…

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Great news for US fans of the Eurovision Song Contest

What do ABBA, Olivia Newton-John, and Celine Dion have in common? They all had their early careers boosted by competing in the Eurovision Song Contest, the annual event that’s been bopping heads since 1956. Increasingly, a number of those heads belong…