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School board kills school newspaper after it published LGBT news

A Nebraska high school has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. School administrators eliminated both the high school newspaper and its journalism program following publication of the school’s year-end issue in May, which featured a story on the history…

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LGBT candidates win in Florida in aftermath of ‘Don’t Say Gay’

Six openly LGBTQ+ candidates running for state House or Senate seats in Florida have won their primaries, advancing to November’s general election where voters will decide whether to triple LGBTQ+ representation in the state legislature. Florida’s legislature made national headlines…

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Democrats hope Charlie Crist can best anti-LGBT Ron DeSantis

To take on the herculean task of challenging Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall, Florida Democrats are going with someone familiar over “something new.” For the second time in eight years, Democratic voters will elect Charlie Crist as their nominee…

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Republican campaign rocked by gay extortion attempt

A self-described “strong conservative and Christian” Republican candidate for Wisconsin’s state assembly is speaking out after he says he was blackmailed by someone who had video of him performing oral sex on another man. Peter Schmidt won the Republican primary…

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US Health experts weigh declaring monkeypox an STD

Amid fears monkeypox would spread at an increased rate at the end of summer as gay men gather in close quarters for dance parties and other celebrations, health experts are starting to emphasize that the current outbreak isn’t spreading through…