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Caitlyn Jenner to write weekly column on LGBT issues
Jenner’s spokesman said the columns on the celebrity content website WhoSay are part of Jenner’s effort to explore matters of concern to the LGBT community.
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Life
.lgbt — Internet’s first top-level domain for the LGBT community launches
The internet’s first top-level domain (TLD), dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community — .lgbt — launched this week.
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News (World)
Former cop launches Chinese gay dating app that grows to 15 million users
BEIJING — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced being gay himself. After several years, the police force found out and told him he could not run a private website that was…
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UK man jailed for 6 years for false claims that he was raped by four gay men
A UK man who falsely claimed he was raped by four gay men he met on dating websites has been jailed for six years. Mark Wixey, 43, of Herefordshire, West Midlands, met three of the men on Gaydar and another on Plenty of Fish.
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News (USA)
Founder of popular South Florida gay website dies after being hit by vehicles
MIAMI — The founder of the popular South Florida gay travel and entertainment website Mark’s List died Friday after he was struck by a pickup truck and two other vehicles as he crossed U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys.
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Online web filter ending longtime block on mainstream gay websites
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A popular online safe-search filter is ending its practice of blocking links to mainstream gay and lesbian advocacy groups for users hoping to avoid obscene sites. For several years, top Web-filtering services have been resolving a security over-reach that conflated gay rights websites with adult content, blocking both from web surfers using …
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It’s not all unicorns and rainbows at ‘Have a Gay Day’
Michael Knote wants you to have a grand ol’ gay day. And he’s posting plenty of content on his Facebook page to make sure you do. It all started in 2011 with the death of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, a high school freshman in Buffalo who committed suicide because of the constant bullying he encountered for being bisexual. Knote, who lives in Piqua, Ohio…
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For gay dads, two new websites help navigate joys, struggles of fatherhood
Just in time Father’s Day comes two new websites geared toward gay dads and the joys and struggles of fatherhood. Gays With Kids helps gay dads navigate fatherhood − from creating their families to raising them, and The Handsome Father offers advice, assistance and support to other men looking for resources on adoption, surrogacy and raising their family.
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News (USA)
Homeland Security employee behind racist, homophobic website
WASHINGTON — A Homeland Security employee is the operator of a racist and homophobic website predicting and advocating a race war, a department official said Thursday.
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News (USA)
#Gay = Porn: Yahoo! blocks gay, lesbian search tags in recently acquired Tumblr
Tumblr, the world’s most popular a microblogging platform is now censoring LGBT-related tags following its recent takeover by Yahoo!.
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Tim Hortons blames website censorship on vendor after boycott threatened
TORONTO — Tim Hortons, the Ontario-based coffee and doughnut house with more than 3,500 locations in Canada and the U.S., said Friday it has lifted a block of a popular Canadian LGBT news website from its in-store Wi-fi under pressure from gay rights advocates who vowed to launch a boycott of the chain.
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News (World)
Anonymous hacks Nigeria’s government website over anti-gay bill
DUBLIN, Ireland — An Irish hacker, who claims that he is part of the Anonymous hackivist group, took down Nigeria’s official government website over its intent to pass a law that would jail LGBT people for up to 14 years.
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News (USA)
New York makes pitch for LGBT visitors with new tourism website
NEW YORK — New York state making a pitch for gay visitors with a new “I Love NY LGBT” tourism website.
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Life
Linda Harvey: Gay news sites trick kids into becoming gay
Linda Harvey of Mission America is worried that “homosexual news blogs” and other websites “that are sympathetic to the social and political goals of the homosexual movement” may actually trick young people, who could simply be visiting such sites in order to research the debate on same-sex marriage, into becoming gay by putting them in close reach of “homosexual-themed pornography.”
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News (World)
Report that gay Somalian teen stoned to death in doubt due to fraudulent photos
Reports by an LGBT activist group in Africa that a gay Somalian teenager was stoned to death last week as a punishment for the crime of homosexuality, and widely reported by LGBT bloggers on Wednesday, may prove to be false.
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eHarmony founder: Homosexuality is ‘a painful way for people to have to live’
Neil Clark Warren, the Christian co-founder of the dating site eHarmony, said he’s “tired” of the debate over marriage equality for gays and lesbians, and blamed same-sex marriage for damaging his company.
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News (USA)
Reddit ‘Gaymers’ fight cease-and-desist letter from trademark holder
Gay video game enthusiasts who belong to a “Gaymer” subsection of the website Reddit have urged the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to cancel registration of the term.
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‘Oops, sorry,’ says Facebook after deleting ‘offensive’ photo of gay couple
Is this photo offensive? Well, somebody at Facebook thought so — and determined that this wedding photo that appeared on the Facebook page “Gay Marriage USA” not only violated their “policies and community standards,” but was worthy of blocking the page admin from posting on Facebook for a week.
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News (USA)
Pentagon blocks LGBT websites for ‘operational security reasons’
More than 15 months since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s former ban on openly gay service members, the U.S. Department of Defense continues to block access to websites it categorizes as LGBT.
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News (World)
Website helps Dutch Catholics protest church’s opposition to gay marriage
AMSTERDAM — A website operator in The Netherlands is helping thousands of Dutch Catholics research information on how that can leave the church in protest of its opposition to same-sex marriage.