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Politics
Pete Buttigieg thanks his husband at his historic Senate confirmation hearing
LGBTQ people are beaming with pride as the first out Cabinet secretary nominee ever brought his husband to his confirmation hearing.
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Health and Wellness
Trans people may have “rare” gene variants related to brain sex differentiation
A new study compared the DNA of transgender people and cisgender people and found 21 gene variants that may be related to gender identity.
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News (USA)
The American Medical Association announces it will push to ban conversion therapy
Soon-to-be physicians want to advocate for legislation ending conversion therapy, train medical staff on sexual orientation and gender identity, and close the pay gap among other recommendations.
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News (USA)
Kids know their gender identity at an incredibly young age
They’re telling us. We just have to listen.
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News (USA)
Trump elevates another unqualified homophobe to run a federal agency
NASA will be overseen by a climate change denier with no scientific background. But, boy, Jim Bridenstine doesn’t like LGBT people.
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Commentary
A study found evidence of a genetic determinant of sexuality & that’s OK
Why are scientists trying to determine the causes of sexual orientation? Because they’re human.
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News (USA)
Rick Santorum, Donald Trump, and oxymoronic ‘Biblical’ science
What is more traditional and value-laden than conserving and thus sustaining the Earth’s resources?
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News (USA)
Researchers say gay men might be able to conceive children without women
Before you go making babies, however, know this: it’s only been tested on mice and women would still be needed to carry and deliver the baby.
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News (USA)
The gay man long accused of “starting AIDS” is finally off the hook
New research shows that Gaetan Dugas was not the “Patient Zero” long thought to have launched HIV in the U.S.
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Life
Robert Spitzer, psychiatrist who shed light on homosexuality, dies
Dr. Robert Spitzer — a psychiatrist who played a leading role in establishing agreed-upon standards to describe mental disorders and eliminating homosexuality’s designation as a pathology — died Friday in Seattle.