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Int’l Olympic Committee relaxes guidelines on transgender athletes
Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the IOC.
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Tens of thousands protest in the streets of Italy for gay civil unions
On Saturday, crowds demonstrated across Italy for gay and lesbian couples to have civil unions.
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Pope Francis: same-sex marriage is not ‘the family God wants’
“There can be no confusion between the family God wants and any other type of union”.
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Police arrest anti-gay demonstrators in Senegal
Police dispersed demonstrators and arrested some because the protest wasn’t authorized.
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Putin ‘probably approved’ murder of ex-KGB agent who claimed he ‘had sex with underage boys’
Four months before he was poisoned, Litvinenko wrote that “his bosses learned that Putin was a pedophile.”
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Britain’s spy agency named employer of the year by Stonewall
A UK equality charity has named Britain’s domestic spy agency its employer of the year.
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Two German trans women were stoned by migrants
“They took stones from a gravel bed on the corner and threw them at us.”
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ISIS throws another ‘gay’ man to his death in front of a crowd
The man was executed in the Iraqi city of Rawa after being accused of engaging in homosexual acts.
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Romanian Orthodox Church: marriage only between man, woman
The Romanian Orthodox Church says it supports an initiative to change Romania’s constitution to specify that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Episcopal leader: Church will not reverse gay marriage stand
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said Friday the U.S. Episcopal Church will not roll back its acceptance of gay marriage despite sanctions imposed this week by Anglican leaders.