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US Selective Service says trans women must register for draft

The U.S. Selective Service says that transgender women must still register for the military draft, regardless of whether they have transitioned. According to the Selective Service website, “U.S. citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to…

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Two scientists just joined the small club of LGBT Nobel laureates

Two queer scientists, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, were awarded Nobel prizes for their scientific discoveries. Swedish geneticist Pääbo, a 67-year-old bisexual man, was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of…

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Grindr’s new CEO has a troubling conservative past

Twitter is doing what human resources could not. Barely one month after hookup app Grindr announced that it would appoint gay businessman and investor George Arison as its new CEO, Twitter users have unearthed a tweet of Arison’s that, while…

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Supreme Court action will make Prop 8 video available to public

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it has declined to take up a case on video recordings from the 2010 trial against the California’s marriage ban known as Proposition 8, effectively green-lighting the process for making those confidential records…