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Meet LifeSite News, one of the most anti-LGBTQ online outlets.

“Christian University Drops Morality Pledge After Top Court Said It Violated LGBT ‘Rights.’” “Irish Singer Who Voted for Gay ‘Marriage’ to Perform at Vatican’s World Meeting of Families.” “’Men Like Me Should Not Be Priests,’ Says Catholic With Same-Sex Attractions.” Those are some recent headlines on LifeSite News, a website that describes itself as…    

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Weekend Read: “You people who’ve got gay children, don’t mess up like I did”.

“Half-baked maggot.” “If he wants to be a female, make him a female. A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.” That’s what adults in Oklahoma had to say this week about a transgender middle schooler named Maddie who used the girls’ bathroom during her first week at Achille Public Schools. She is 12 years old.    

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Catholic Cardinal: ‘Homosexual culture’ is to blame for child rape.

A Catholic Cardinal has blamed sexual abuse scandals on a “homosexual culture” within the Church. US Cardinal Raymond Burke, who serves as Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Rome, added that homosexuality was a “tendency that is disordered” and needed to be “purified at the root.”    

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Is casting Jack Whitehall as a gay Disney character is an act of queer erasure?

Gay people can act straight convincingly, but the reverse is far trickier – just look at Dominic West dancing in the film Pride. News greets us this week of yet another triumphant milestone for LGBTQ+ rights, with the casting of Disney’s “first openly gay character” (tell that to Ursula from The Little Mermaid), in Jungle Cruise, a film…    

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Why homophobic Republicans are so prone to gay sex scandals.

In a new post for the blog Sex and Psychology, Dr. Justin Lehmiller delves into the reasons why so many conservative men continue to find themselves at the center of gay sex scandals. The most one is GOP Rep. Nick Sauer of Illinois, who resigned in disgrace last week after being accused of using his ex-girlfriend’s nude photos to…    

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on LGBTQ discrimination show she has hope for the future.

When the Supreme Court handed down its 7-2 ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission earlier this year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made it clear in her dissent that she strongly disagreed with the court’s decision to rule in favor of a baker who, citing religious beliefs, refused…    

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Facebook bans InfoWars and Alex Jones after calls for drag queens to be burned alive.

Notorious anti-LGBT conspiracy theory outlet InfoWars has been banned from Facebook for violating hate speech rules – after calling for drag queens to be burned alive. The pro-Trump outlet is best known for outspoken conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who pushes a large number of conspiracy theories to his online following via his InfoWars shows.