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Walk Proud: Kentucky Students Protest Anti-Gay Legislation

Society puts far too much pressure on being “in.” What’s trending, what’s hip, what’s happening? We always want to be with the IN-crowd, to be IN on the joke, and to...

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Fight for Your Right to Party: MMA Fighters Defend Drag Show

This story is so satisfying that it must be experienced at full volume. So, cue up The Bodyguard soundtrack and get ready to be swept off your feet by a squad of mixed martial...

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Florida Man Urges Parishioners to Sign Anti-Gay Contract

We’ve all heard the expression Don’t s*** where you eat, but a Jacksonville megachurch just updated it: Don’t poo where you pray. First Baptist was soooooo buns-hurt by a...

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Sissy That Washington: Robert Garcia Owns MTG

Want to make Marjorie Taylor Greene’s peabrain explode? It’s surprisingly easy. Just follow these three easy steps and watch those split-ends fly! One: introduce her to a...

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Hate Preacher Claims This is What Happens to Gay Men Who Have Sex

Who could forget their first sexual encounter? You spot a potential paramour across the crowded gay bar. Your eyes lock, your pulse races, and your attention swells. View this...

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Former Homophobic Kroger Employees Win Religious Discrimination Case Over Refusing to Wear Apron with Rainbow-esque Heart

Religion is like dairy. It can be nourishing, it can be rich, but when left to simmer in the wrong environment, it sours into a toxic slurry. Take, for example, a realm where...

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Fake Religion tRumps Real Health Care in Texas

Does your Bible advise you to prioritize voodoo beliefs over the well-being of others? Does it prevent you from expressing compassion toward your fellow human? Are you so enamored...

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Play Stupid Games, Lose Valuable Contracts

Imagine deluding yourself into believing that you’re the authority on other people’s health and wellness simply because you’re checks notes the spouse of a Grammy-losing...

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Palm Springs Pride Urges You to SAY GAY!

In the 1930s, they shipped us to concentration camps. In the 1950s, they imprisoned us in asylums. In the 1980s, they hid us in hospital wards as we died from apathy and neglect....

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A Texas Library created a Banned LGBTQ book camp for kids and adults

Queer lights shine brighter because we have to. We are often raised by straight people and delayed from embracing our truths until we burst from the closet in a brilliant flash of...

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Over 1,000 queer candidates are running for office in 2022

We get it: campaigns are boring. That’s why we’re going to pepper our politics with sexy pics of Pennsylvania Representative Brian Sims. View this post on Instagram A post...

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Our Pride Is Stronger Than Your Proud Boys

Hate starts from within. When you despise yourself to the very core, you can’t help but lash out at the world, blaming them for the pathetic failure you are destined to be for...

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