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Demings tore into Rubio about his Pulse nightclub response

Marco Rubio and Val Demings faced off last night in the Florida U.S. Senate debate that literally ended with the anti-LGBTQ lawmaker wiping the sweat from his forehead with a damp handkerchief while she received thunderous applause from the crowd…

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Florida Department of Education approves new anti-LGBT rules

As school districts across the state and particularly in Southwest Florida struggle to reopen after the massive damage inflicted by Hurricane Ian, the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day storm, the Florida Department of…

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Russia prepares to toughen horrific ‘gay propaganda’ law

Russian lawmakers are poised to expand the so-called “gay propaganda” law to cover adults. Officials attended a State Duma session on Monday (17 October) to discuss approving amendments to the 2013 law, which prohibits the distribution of what the country…

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Coming to grips with being ‘culturally gay’

Reading up on Ireland, I came across the phrase “culturally Catholic.” In Northern Ireland, the Catholics and the Protestants fought for a century, in what Yeats called “a terrible beauty.” It’s the reason why my ancestors, the Toals, left County Armagh…