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How gay men justify their racism on Grindr

On gay dating apps like Grindr, many users have profiles that contain phrases like “I don’t date Black men,” or that claim they are “not attracted to Latinos.” Other times they’ll list races acceptable to them: “White/Asian/Latino only.”…

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Another Mexican state approves same-sex marriage

Lawmakers in Mexico’s Yucatán state on Wednesday approved a bill that will extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. The marriage equality bill in the Yucatán Congress passed by a 20-5 vote margin. “We celebrate that after more than 10 years of…

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Your LGBT history is now being deleted on eBay

One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the…

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Evangelicals view LGBT rights progress as a personal attack

When it comes to LGBTQ progress, conservative Christians see it as a zero-sum game at their expense. That’s the finding of a new research paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “Across five studies, we examined the…

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The nation’s most LGBT-friendly colleges and universities

Campus Pride’s 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list includes schools from Massachusetts to Oregon, from Wisconsin to Texas. And this year the organization is also highlighting community colleges and religious schools leading the way in inclusion…

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Student caught saying ‘fa**ots go to hell’ while defacing art

Less than a week after a controversy erupted over a Mormon Church Elder’s anti-LGBTQ remarks during the annual faculty and staff meeting, a Brigham Young University student was recorded destroying LGBTQ-affirmative chalk messages on campus. The incident took place after…