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Pussy Riot band leader makes daring escape from Russia

Pussy Riot band leader Maria Alyokhina has escaped house arrest in Russia by disguising herself as a food courier to avoid Moscow police.  Alyokhina and her bandmates in the feminist collective Pussy Riot have been arrested and imprisoned multiple times…

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LGBT college students more likely to pick school far from home

A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law conducted in collaboration with the Point Foundation, the nation’s largest LGBTQ scholarship fund, finds LGBTQ people were four times more likely than non-LGBTQ people to report having picked…

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The US states where same-sex marriage could be banned

Same-sex couples would no longer be able to marry in 25 U.S. states if the Supreme Court were to overturn marriage equality in the wake of repealing Roe v. Wade, according to a new report. According to a March report from…

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Students angered by censorship of yearbook pics of LGBT protest

Lyman High School administrators in Seminole County Florida on Monday held up the previously scheduled distribution of the school’s yearbooks due to pictures of the student led walk-out over the state’s infamous ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law which had not been…

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Zander Moricz is the gay hero we need in Florida right now

Zander Moricz is many impressive things: an openly gay 18 year old, a Class President, a Harvard-bound future Government major. He’s also the youngest public plaintiff in the lawsuit against Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and is preparing to say gay…

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Grindr announces plans to go public with multibillion valuation

Grindr is going public. The gay dating and hookup app announced it has entered into an agreement with Tiga Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company. The two companies have agreed to merge under the name Grindr Inc. in a deal…

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Gay Days are back at amusement parks around the country

Dancing on our own. Listening to “Chromatica” on repeat. Watching “Drag Race.” Who doesn’t love those gay days? But riding on all the biggest roller coasters under a flurry of colored light with all queers and you’ve got something special…