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The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men.

If white men were being infected at the horrifying rate that African-Americans are, it would be front-page news. There is an epidemic of HIV/Aids in the United States, and the reason you may not have heard about it is because of who it harms: black men who have sex with other men.

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Why Stoli Vodka and Harvey Milk Day make a nasty cocktail.

This Tuesday, California celebrated Harvey Milk Day, a holiday to honor the influential LGBTQ rights activist who became the first out queer person elected to public office in the state. Milk, who was tragically assassinated 40 years ago in 1978, would have turned 88 this week.

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LGBT travelers shouldn’t just visit queer-friendly destinations.

Because of my position within the LGBT travel community, my friends have expressed passionate arguments for boycotting antigay destinations I’ve visited. For them, the decision to boycott is clear: they just won’t visit because they believe they shouldn’t give LGBT tourism dollars to known anti-gay destinations.

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Pope Francis tells gay man: ‘God made you like this’.

Juan Carlos Cruz, who was sexually abused, says pontiff told him God did not mind that he was gay. A survivor of clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him that God had made him gay and loved him, in arguably the most strikingly accepting comments about homosexuality to be uttered by the leader of the Roman Catholic church.

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A woman running for Congress filmed herself yelling at a transgender woman for using the bathroom.

Viral footage shows a transgender women being confronted in a Denny’s bathroom by a woman running for Congress. Jazmina Saavedra, who’s running for US Congress in California’s 44th District and is the spokeswoman for the California branch of Latinos for Trump, posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday…

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Major national survey finds majority of Americans in every state oppose LGBTQ discrimination.

As the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to rule in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission — a case involving a Denver-area baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple — a major new national survey found a strong majority of Americans in every state oppose licenses to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

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Pro-LGBT Corporate America strong-arms Kansas into submission – An opinion from the right.

Religious liberty and the best interests of vulnerable children hang in the balance as Corporate America again flexes its muscle to coerce a state into bending to the will of LGBT special interest groups. Apple, Google and Amazon––along with more than 80 other tech companies…