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Trump’s gay press secretary lies, makes excuses for his boss.

Saying that Donald Trump and his administration are anti-LGBTQ is “just a smear campaign,” according to the gay man who works as deputy White House press secretary. That man, Judd Deere, recently gave an interview to BuzzFeed in which he…

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GOP senator: LGBT movement sexually deviant and perverted.

The head of the West Virginia Republican Party is standing by her praise of a state senator’s belief that LGBTQ means sexual deviancy and perversion.Over the weekend, West Virginia state Sen. Mike Azinger, a Republican, penned an op-ed in response…

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LGBT acceptance among young adults drops, says GLAAD.

A new survey shows young adults in the U.S. are now less accepting of LGBTQ people, GLAAD announced on Monday. The fifth iteration of the Accelerating Acceptance Index, conducted for the advocacy group earlier this year, asked 1,970 adults a series…

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The folklore surrounding what makes a person gay.

There has always heard a lot of folklore surrounding LGBTQ people. For example, many claim that left-handedness is linked to homosexuality, or how many male siblings one has.  Now, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of …