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Openly gay judo athlete Timo Cavelius wins championship

After being the runner-up the previous three years, Timo Cavelius, an openly gay judoka, won his class at the German national judo championships in Stuttgart this weekend. Cavelius, 26, took the title by defeating two-time German champ Tim Gramkow in the…

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George Santos to step down from committee assignments

Republican Rep. George Santos (N.Y.) told House GOP colleagues on Tuesday that he will step down from his two committee assignments pending the resolution of investigations and possible law enforcement activity over his alleged financial crimes and violations of campaign…

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The wild story of a 70s gay radical who streaked the Oscars

On Sunday afternoon, New Yorker writer Michael Schulman posted a tweet promising “a wild & crazy story coming out in tomorrow’s New Yorker.” The piece, he wrote, involved “the 1970s San Francisco leather scene, Robert Mapplethorpe, gay liberation, sex, drugs, murder…