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Gay ex-footballer condemns FIFA for OneLove fiasco

Former footballer Thomas Beattie has condemned FIFA for its mishandling of the Qatar World Cup’s OneLove armband fiasco. There was uproar when a number of countries backed away from wearing the rainbow-coloured armband at the Qatar World Cup at the…

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Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples. Rule for the designer and the justices will expose not…

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Top drag queens now forced to tour with armed guards

The deadly attack at an LGBTQ club in Colorado last month — where a shooter turned the venue’s “Drag Divas” night into a massacre — has made an already harrowing year for drag performers worse. Eight of the country’s top drag queens…

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AIDS Memorial Quilt founder honored on World AIDS Day

The National AIDS Memorial marked World AIDS Day with a national observance at the 10-acre National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco, honoring AIDS activist and founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Cleve Jones with its Lifetime of Commitment Award…

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GOP wants you to report librarians who ‘sexualize children’

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) has launched an online form encouraging state residents to report the “taxpayer-subsided sexualization of children” by librarians, their supervisors, teachers, school board members, and district superintendents. “Librarians and teachers are neither empowering nor liberating…

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Pro-gay countries are trouncing anti-gay nations at World Cup

Countries that criminalize homosexuality did far worse at this FIFA World Cup in Qatar than nations that don’t kill or imprison people for being gay. There were eight countries that inflict harsh punishments on citizens for being gay — dubbed by…

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The IRS routinely lets right-wing churches break tax law 

The religious right has long argued that the separation of church and state is a false premise and has focused their hatred on the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law that threatens 501(c)(3) organizations, such as churches, charities, and universities, with…