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Tom Daley awarded Royal honor for diving & LGBT rights work

British Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley was honoured at Windsor Castle Tuesday, as Prince Charles standing in for Queen Elizabeth, bestowed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on the 28 year-old champion diver. In the citation…

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LGBT senior housing project vandalized with hate speech

A Boston affordable housing project for LGBTQ seniors was vandalized with homophobic and threatening graffiti Sunday. The Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization that is leading the housing project’s construction, LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., shared photos of the hateful messages — including “we will… 

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What to know about monkeypox and its symptoms

The monkeypox virus, primarily transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, can infect anyone, health officials say. But here in the United States it is disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men.  The Biden administration has begun distributing JYNNEOS, a two-dose, FDA-approved vaccine…

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Russia plans to extend ‘gay propaganda’ law to all adults

Russian lawmakers have proposed extending a ban on the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual relationships to minors to include adults as well, a senior legislator said on Monday. Russia’s existing “gay propaganda” law, passed in 2013, has been used to stop…