HEROES

Mara Wilson’s journey out of the closet.

Matilda star Mara Wilson has revealed that she “often wishes” she did not come out as bisexual/queer when she did. The actress opened-up about her sexuality in the wake of the June 2016 Orlando Pulse nightclub tragedy, but has now revealed that she received a lot of backlash over the timing of her coming out.

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Malaysia blocks visitors from entering country for gay party.

The Immigration Department is working with the police and Malaysia Islamic Development Department (Jakim) to obtain information about individuals who could be entering Malaysia for the beer festival and gay party, said Immigration Department director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali.

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A clever way to turn a negative sign positive.

Aside from being divisive topics in the world, pineapple pizza and marriage equality seem to have little in common. Yet both have staunch supporters as well as people who believe that they just aren’t “natural.” The difference, of course, is that hating pineapple pizza is just a benign opinion, while hating the idea of marriage equality is homophobic and can negatively impact the lives of all LGBTQ people.

HEROES

An LGBT reunion at BYU…a first.

Like a lot of Brigham Young University students, Guy Berryessa met his future spouse while he was a student at BYU in Provo. The only thing was, at the time, he and his future husband didn’t know the other was gay. “It was a very lonely place in that sense that neither of us could ever tell our deepest secret,” Berryessa said. “Neither of us were asking about it.”

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Fair housing bill that protects LGBT people now waits for Congress to act.

The facts are striking: In 28 states, it is perfectly legal to deny someone housing simply because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity; in 2013, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found same-sex couples faced“adverse treatment” in their search for housing—a finding echoed the following year in a study conducted by Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) and the Equal Rights Center, which found a staggering 48% of LGBT individuals faced “adverse differential treatment” in their search for housing.