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Impartial LGBT news needed to advance global human rights.

“Filthy”, “diseased”, “devil worshipper”, “disgusting”, “abnormal”, “paedophile”. These were real words used by some media outlets around the world this year when reporting on LGBT+ people. This might sound shocking. After all, we are more accustomed to…      

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What they really mean by ‘religious freedom’.

The call to protect religious freedom — often code among social conservatives for the ability to discriminate against LGBT people — continued to be a rallying cry at the annual anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit, where attendees declared support for…        

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Is there really such a thing as a gay global culture?

Is there really such a thing as a global culture? Consider gay rights. Last Thursday the Indian Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality. Last April a court in Trinidad and Tobago found colonial-era laws banning gay sex to be unconstitutional. And late last year…    

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The epidemic of gay loneliness.

Dear Dan: I’m a 40-something gay male. I’m single and cannot get a date or even a hookup. I’m short, overweight, average-looking and bald. I see others, gay and straight, having long-term relationships…