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Straight penguins are now the minority at this aquarium. Most of them are gay couples.
The same-sex couples have figured out how to have children, too.
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He wanted to marry his partner in his childhood church, but the congregation wouldn’t allow it
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, as a denomination, has allowed same-sex couples to get married since 2009. But his congregation held a vote and decided not to allow it.
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Madonna’s moving speech honoring her gay friends she lost to AIDS brought the room to tears
She said about her first gay club: “I finally felt like I was not alone, that it was OK to be different and to not be like everybody else.”
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Scrabble adds LGBTQ words like ‘transphobia’ & ‘genderqueer’ to its official word list
Scrabble players can now – and they will – use the gender-neutral pronoun “ze.”
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Sailors were told to ‘clap like you’re at a strip club’ for Mike Pence
It is ironic that sailors were told to pretend they were in a strip club as they were about to see someone who refuses to be alone in the same room as a woman.
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Mayor Pete is going to hell whether he’s a top or bottom, Christian pundit says
The Christian radio show host wanted to be sure everyone understood that the Bible “is talking about both parts of a homosexual liaison.”
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The Equality Act passed an important House committee. Every Republican voted against it.
Republicans tried to stall by making a clerk read the entire bill aloud. Twice.
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Iowa may soon stop covering transgender care through Medicaid
The bill would overturn a right transgender people just won in a state supreme court case.
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A man shot this gay man to death & then bragged about it online
Prosecutors say that the alleged killer “hated homosexuals” and bragged about robbing & shooting a gay man.
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Tennessee moves forward on anti-trans bills, while LGBTQ adoption ban stalls
Two bills related to transgender bathroom use advanced in the state that advocates say will lead to “harassment of transgender people.”