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How a gay community helped the CDC spot a COVID outbreak

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a lot of ways to pick up on COVID-19 outbreaks, but those methods often take awhile to bear fruit. Not so with the Provincetown, Mass., cluster that started around July Fourth weekend…

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Gay Olympic champion Tom Daley wins yet another medal

Tom Daley has won his fourth-ever Olympic medal after scoring bronze in the individual men’s 10-metre platform in Tokyo. The beloved British diver, who somersaulted into the nation’s hearts in 2008, competed in what may have been his final Olympic dive…

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Tucker Carlson hates Biden but loves this antigay dictator

“If you care about Western civilization and democracy and families and the ferocious assault on all three of those things by the leaders of our global institutions, you should know what is happening here right now.” Indeed, we care about…

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Former school superintendent says he was fired for being gay

A former superintendent of a Massachusetts school district has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was discriminated against and fired because he is gay, and that the circumstances surrounding his termination have made it impossible for him to find another…

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HRC staffers call for Alphonso David’s resignation

Human Rights Campaign staff had an intense meeting Wednesday with the group’s president, Alphonso David, regarding his ties to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with several employees calling on David to resign. David is under fire because of his role…