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News (USA)
Antigay fans taunt LGBTQ Olympians with cruel chants
Team USA’s openly lesbian coach and players received a rude welcome from fans in Rio.
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News (USA)
Let the games begin… with a kiss!
These two torch bearers lit a fire on the road to the Olympics as they shared a kiss, now seen ’round the world.
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News (USA)
She’s got gay: WNBA’s MVP comes out, reveals she’s engaged at Olympics
Although social media often features her fiancée, Elena Delle Donne has only now revealed she is gay and engaged.
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News (World)
Two straight Brazilian actors make out — to stick it to “macho card-carriers”
Two of Brazil’s most famous actors — who both identify as straight — shared a long kiss on stage at the Brazilian GQ Men of the Year Awards.
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News (World)
Rio de Janeiro prisons seek to protect transgender inmates
Brazil’s penitentiaries are notorious for rampant overcrowding and violence endured by all inmates. But advocates say few prisoners are as vulnerable as transgender people.
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LGBTQ Pride
Rio de Janeiro celebrates gay pride, calls for end to homophobia
RIO DE JANEIRO — Gay rights activists are using Rio de Janeiro’s annual gay pride parade to demand laws against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Thousands of people paraded down Copacabana’s main coastal boulevard with rainbow flags and thematic floats, many dressed in carnival costumes or wearing t-shirts saying “Fight Against Homophobia.”
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LGBTQ Pride
Gay pride revelers in Brazil pack Copacabana Beach
RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach has been packed with tens of thousands of revelers taking part in the city’s annual gay pride event.
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LGBT Brazilians greet Pope with ‘kiss-in’ to protest stance on gay marriage
RIO DE JANEIRO — LGBT Brazilians on Monday greeted Pope Francis with a “beijaco,” or kiss-in, upon the pontiff’s arrival in Rio de Janeiro as protest of the Catholic Church’s stance on same-sex marriage.
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Brazil: Judge rules same-sex couples in Rio de Janeiro state can marry
RIO DE JANEIRO — A judge in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro on Friday published a legal ruling authorizing marriage equality for same-sex couples.