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Tokyo Paralympic host a record number of LGBT athletes

When the 2020 Paralympics kick off on Aug. 24, there will be at least 27 openly LGBTQ athletes from eight countries competing, according to LGBTQ sports site Outsports.  That’s more than double the 12 who competed at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, and it…

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Married lesbian couple shot to death at Utah campsite

Police in Utah have launched a homicide investigation in the deaths of a married female couple shot to death Wednesday at a campsite in Grand County. The victims were Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, and Kylen Carrol Schulte, 24, who had lived in…

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Poland’s LGBT Equality marches held under heavy police guard

Two separate LGBTQ Equality marches known as marsze równości were held Saturday under a heavy police presence in the Southern city of Częstochowa and the Baltic seaside port city of Gdańsk. Polish media outlet RMF24, Agence France-Presse along with the…

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Tom of Finland models recount early days of danger

Fotografiska New York has collaborated with the Tom of Finland Foundation to produce The Darkroom, a collection of the photographic portraits by Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), which served as the reference images for his later works…