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The two television networks – ABC and NBC – that covered the 2014 Tournament of Roses parade live on Jan. 1 are not saying why the wedding of two men atop the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s float was not part of their programming viewed by more than 60 million people around the world. 
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Cedar Springs Road wasn't always the heart of Dallas gayborhood. Until Richard Longstaff, a British expat, opened Union Jack in 1971, there probably wasn't a gay-owned business on the block, according to a 2011 Dallas Voice article.
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Hello. My name is Chris Kluwe, and for eight years I was the punter for the Minnesota Vikings. In May 2013, the Vikings released me from the team.
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LGBT rights organization Friendfactor is in its second year of the MBA Ally Challenge which seeks to find the most LGBT friendly business school.
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Seeking to reduce health disparities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute, and the Center for American Progress, have released "Optimizing LGBT Health under the Affordable Care Act: Strategies for Health Centers," a guide detailing how the ACA will improve LGBT health and best practices for health centers to increase enrollment of LGBT people in coverage under the ACA.
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On Monday, Rachael Sacks spoke out in another Thought Catalog post, this time blasting the media for leaving out that fact that she is gay in their coverage of...
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The help - and money - provided by city housing officials "is really what's made this project move forward," said Seth Kilbourn of Openhouse, one of the site's developers and a group that provides services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors.
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Robin Roberts thanked her longtime girlfriend, Amber Laign, in a year-end post published on the ABC News anchor's Facebook page on Sunday, confirmed Heather Riley of ABC.
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Young Beijinger worked in finance and could have emigrated but decided to stay in China to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual rights
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He would like to disguise his voice, but he doesn't have the technology. I am a gay soldier, and I am currently serving in Iraq, he says to the camera.
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Although the relevance and popularity of the pan-African tradition gets debated annually, it's no coincidence that Back lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans across the country have been embracing ... Via Kelly Riker
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Later, I would learn “our” language, through personal interactions and through the explosion of black gay media: ”Brother to Brother,” “Noah's Arc,” “The DL Chronicles,” and so many other films, television shows, ...
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Is it ever okay to out a person who is suspected of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT)? If you answered yes, you will be happy to know that a gay witch hunt is currently underway, to forcibly out any prominent athlete, actor or politician. The reasons for the outings are varied, but the sensational headlines mean large volumes of traffic and revenue for the blog and news sites who partake in the witch hunts.
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NPR Transgender Issues Follow Path Blazed By Gay Rights NPR It may have been "the gayest year ever," as some gay and lesbian activists put it — 2013 saw the Defense of Marriage Act struck down by the Supreme Court and the number of states offering... Via Kelly Riker
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If they press for more detail, Cullinan explains that in the past four years she has forged a dependable career as a fiction writer of gay-male romance.
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It's hard to take the world seriously if we have people legally allowing the courts the power to imprison and even sanction death penalty for gay people to exist.
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Don Guardian was sworn in as the resort city's 49th mayor amid a brutal slowdown that has seen it lose its place as the nation's second-largest gambling market, with casino...
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Barazoku, the first mass market magazine specifically for gay men, debuted in 1971 and began printing gay manga by the mid-70s.
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MSNBC's Roberts has since been joined by a coterie of out-and-proud gay anchors and correspondents, notably CNN's Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and...
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The American-born soccer star signed a deal to play with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday. Via Kelly Riker
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There are nearly 700,000 transgender individuals in the U.S., or 0.3 percent of the adult population,...
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It's rumored that Annise Parker, Houston's lesbian mayor, will marry Kathy Hubbard, her long time partner of 23 years.
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The Boy Scouts of America will accept openly gay youths starting on New Year's Day, a historic change that has prompted the BSA to ponder a host of potential complications -- ranging from policies on tentmates and showers to whether Scouts can...
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Even as society encourages women into typically male roles, research shows it holds rigid gender stereotypes for men — probably to everyone's detriment.
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