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Meet the big man on campus: first openly gay student body president at Texas A&M
Bobby Brooks ran on a platform of expanding diversity at the university, and won.
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Study finds discrimination against people with a ‘gay voice’
A study found that straight people didn’t even need to know someone’s sexual orientation to react with homophobia to their voice.
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Malaysia theater to defy censors and show unedited ‘Beauty and the Beast’
After disappointing fans, Malaysia’s largest theater operator decided to go ahead and show the full film despite orders to cut LeFou’s kiss.
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Mormon Church releases video about ‘accepting’ gay children
A video produced by the Mormon Church tries to get parents to accept their LGB kids while not rejecting the church’s teaching that being gay is wrong.
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Not getting enough? Ellen discreetly suggests lesbian love to straight viewers
Ellen wanted to “help” her audience by reminding them that lesbians could be having better sex than straight women.
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YouTube reverses some restrictions on LGBTQ videos
YouTube set a huge number of LGBTQ videos on “restricted” mode, upsetting some of its biggest stars and their fans.
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Here’s what happened at Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
Gorsuch said his role, if confirmed as the next Justice, was “not about politics,” and pledged equal justice to both “poor and rich.”
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Nearly half of sexually active high school girls in NYC have had female partners
The study also showed that students who had experience a same-sex relationship were more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.
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Founders of the Homocore movement angered by Gucci ‘Queercore’ shoe line
“Queercore didn’t ‘lend it’s name’ to Gucci for their shoes. I should know, I invented the term ‘Queercore,’” said legendary punk filmmaker and musician G.B. Jones.
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YouTube sends ‘regrets’ to LGBTQ users for filtering videos, makes no change
The video sharing service stunned and angered users by turning content about same-sex relationships and gender identity invisible, and says it will “look into” concerns.