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Alabama Republican Party official posts image of KKK hoods

The Republican Party of Lawrence County, Alabama recently posted an image on its Facebook account containing white hoods associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist terrorism organization. The image — which showed the silhouette of a roaring elephant…

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Report: Sex between men, not skin contact, is fueling monkeypox

Since the outset of the global monkeypox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely transmitting through skin-to-skin contact, in particular during sex between men.  Now, however, an expanding cadre…

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YouTube channel dedicated to LGBT history finally restored

Within 24 hours of being contacted by the Bay Area Reporter, Google has restored the GLBT Historical Society’s YouTube channel that was suddenly taken down last month with little explanation other than an alleged violation of sexually explicit content…

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Hate crime charges filed against men who attacked gay couple

Christian Peacock and his boyfriend Jacob Metcalf were standing at the end of Peacock’s driveway in this suburban Salt Lake City town hugging and quietly chatting in “a long goodbye for the night,” two weeks ago when a Nissan-Infinity sedan…

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Gay rugby’s Bingham Cup kicks off with 20 countries represented

The world’s largest amateur rugby tournament has its opening ceremonies in Ottawa Wednesday, with more than 1,700 players from 20 countries participating. What sets this biennial tournament — the Bingham Cup — apart from others, is the fact it has become a…