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LGBT news publisher leans far right on gender pronouns

TJ Montemer — the publisher of the Mirror Media Group including publications such as the Santa Monica Mirror, Palisades News, and LGBTQ newspaper The Pride LA — allegedly denounced a teacher being criticized for asking his students what their preferred pronouns are…

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Aetna sued for discrimination against LGBT couples

Insurance giant Aetna is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company discriminates against LGBTQ couples seeking fertility treatment. The company requires couples to actively try to get pregnant for six to 12 months. Opposite sex couples can simply say they’ve…

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Ford responded to homophobia with a very gay rainbow truck

When someone commented about the new Ford Ranger Raptor truck in Germany with an anti-gay slur, Ford responded in just the right way. According to Ford, “the #VeryGayRaptor was initially created digitally” after someone on social media described a blue-colored…

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Your LGBT history is now being deleted on eBay

One day almost twenty years ago, the historian Vi Johnson won an eBay auction for a numbered first edition of “Sex Life in England Illustrated,” by Iwan Bloch, an early sexologist. (Among Bloch’s bona fides: he located and published the…