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News (USA)
Gay Civil Rights icon Bayard Rustin just got his sodomy conviction pardoned
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California pardoned Rustin, who was arrested in 1953 for having sex with men.
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News (World)
Gay man’s sister kidnapped him & forced him into conversion therapy where he was flogged
His family thought being gay was “demonic,” so his sister hired a “prophet” to beat it out of him.
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News (USA)
Pastor who railed against “sexual immorality” pleads guilty to sexual abuse of boys
His wife has already divorced him.
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News (World)
Two gay tourists were arrested in Malaysia for “immoral acts” with an undercover officer
They were arrested in their hotel room while visiting the country.
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News (World)
Saudi Arabia outed two journalists. Now they’re fleeing for their lives.
The two men believe that they were outed by the government’s counterterrorism arm.
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Election 2020
Buttigieg says leaders of homophobic countries will ‘have to get used to’ a gay US president
The real problem is how those countries treat their own LGBTQ people, he said.
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LGBTQ History
How Alfred Kinsey armed the early gay rights movement with research
Even early gay rights activists wouldn’t have known just how many people they were fighting for without him.
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News (World)
16 arrested for homosexuality in gruesome raid of an Uganda HIV organization
The men were targeted by a homophobic mob so they called police. The police arrested them instead of the mob.
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News (World)
Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill is back & it may be even worse
The law would be expanded to include anyone “involved in promotion and recruitment” – including saying gay people are born that way.
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LGBTQ History
In 1976, the Supreme Court slapped down a sodomy law challenge with just four words
It all started with a Help Wanted ad.