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Gay senior cop told to ‘behave like a straight white man’

Brian Paddick, a former police chief who became the country’s most senior gay police officer, has shared the discrimination he faced during his time on the force. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 1 October, the ex-officer says more…

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After 60 years of evil anti-LGBT rants, Pat Robertson finally quits

Televangelist Pat Robertson, one of the most vicious anti-LGBTQ Christian leaders for decades, announced that he will step down as the host of his popular 700 Club television show. The far-right preacher started the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) 60 years ago today…

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Top 90% of Christian Facebook pages were run by troll farms

Nineteen of the 20 top Christian Facebook pages were run by troll farms out of Kosovo and Macedonia in 2019 according to a leaked internal report. In the run up to the 2020 presidential election, Facebook executives commissioned a report on the prevalence…

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Why more LGBT sportspeople than ever are coming out

Sport, up until very recently, was considered a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ athletes. The treatment of some of sport’s first openly LGBTQ+ athletes, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and footballer Justin Fashanu, shows this. But this year has…