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Alibaba releases Chinese New Year ad featuring gay couple.

An ad by e-commerce and tech multinational conglomerate Alibaba has been praised by gay communities in China for depicting, and supporting, same-sex couples. The Chinese company’s ad was circulated on Chinese social media and showed two men returning to…

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Shop worker forced to fake being gay to keep his job.

A SHOP worker who was left “humiliated” after being forced to fake being gay to keep his job has won a £7,800 payout. Daniel Hart, 31, was ordered to keep his real sexuality quiet or face the boot from a posh handbag boutique…

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Facebook disables some misleading ads on HIV drugs. (finally)

Facebook has reversed course and quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis…

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Anti-gay church leader caught trying to buy sex on Grindr.

Another day, another antigay church leader busted for trying to buy sex on Grindr. 57-year-old Barry Cole Poyner of Kirksville, Missouri is an elder at the Kirksville Church of Christ, as well as a professor of communications at Truman State University…

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Hallmark Channel reinstates ads featuring lesbian kiss.

At the end of a tumultuous week for The Hallmark Channel, the pay television network has announced it would reverse its decision to pull several ads featuring a same-sex kiss. The controversial commercials were among a series of six ads for…

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The Advocate & Out’s editors resign amid financial troubles.

Zach Stafford, editor of The Advocate, and Phillip Picardi, editor of Out magazine, have both announced their resignations following financial troubles by their publications’ parent company, Pride Media. Pride Media’s CEO Orlando Reece is stepping down as well, leaving an…

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Chick-fil-A donated another $1.8 million to anti-LGBT groups.

Documents show that Chick-fil-A donated to anti-LGBTQ organizations in 2018, a year after its 2017 donations, which came to light earlier this year. This past March, the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s tax returns showed that the organization had donated $1.8 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes…