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Homophobe banned from all UK football matches for 3 years

A football fan has been banned from all matches in the UK for three years after hurling homophobic slurs during a Premier League game. James Grainger-Brown launched a tirade of abuse at Brighton & Hove Albion’s players and fans during their…

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Is it really gay? Here’s the true meaning of the song ‘YMCA’

In 1978, Village People, a disco band of six men deliberately stylized as sexy macho gay characters, released its album Cruisin’. The album featured “YMCA,” an upbeat disco track praising the Young Men’s Christian Association’s (YMCA) community centers…

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Judge orders stay of Missouri AG anti-trans rule until May 1

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a stay on Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule on transgender health care until May 1. Ribaudo said Wednesday that she would like more time to review the matter before…

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Eurovision Song Contest: Everything you need to know

The campest celebration of pop returns this year with Eurovision. Read ahead for everything you need to know about the 2023 contest, from where it will take place, which countries are taking part and who is the current favourite to win…

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Biden sues Tennessee over trans gender-affirming care ban

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state of Tennessee over its S.B. 1, a bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors and gives trans youth already receiving gender-affirming care until March 2024 to detransition…