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Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Thursday marks National Coming Out Day — an LGBTQ holiday that encourages young queer people to be comfortable with their sexuality and live an open lifestyle. 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the first...
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Two Muslim women in Malaysia have been caned after they were found guilty of attempting to have sex with each other. The two unnamed women, aged 22 and 32, were caned six times each in a courtroom at the Terengganu Sharia high court on Monday. More than 100 witnessed...
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JAY-Z was overcome with emotion when his mother revealed she is gay for the first time. The hip hop star – who raps about his mom, Gloria, coming out on his 2017 song “Smile” – says he already knew his mother’s secret before she told him, but was moved...
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A “church” in New Mexico has become the first in the Mennonite Church USA to appoint an open lesbian as “lead pastor.” Albuquerque Mennonite Church, which affirmed homosexual relationships a decade ago, made the announcement on Monday that it had chosen Erica Lea as its new leader. It remarked...
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A Houston woman was volunteering at a church following Hurricane Harvey and she claims that she was let go by the pastor because she is a Jewish lesbian. Carmen Hix saw the devastation the storm wrought first hand and wanted to do something to help. That’s when the 64-year-old Navy...
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Two LGBT-rights organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday challenging President Donald Trump’s tweets declaring he wants a ban on transgender people serving in the military. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of five transgender service members with nearly 60 years of combined military...
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A woman in Dekalb County, Alabama is seeking the recusal of the presiding judge over her divorce case because of his “publicly expressed belief that homosexual relationships and marriages are contrary to God’s law.” Tiara Brooke Lycans, a lesbian mother who is in the process of a divorce from her husband,...
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One Alabama mother believes the judge handling her divorce case should be disqualified because of his personal views on homosexuality. Tiara Brooke Lycans, a lesbian seeking divorce from her husband, Zachary Thomas Lycans, has twice asked DeKalb Circuit Court Judge Shaunathan C. Bell to recuse himself from her case, but he has declined...
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A lesbian woman who is frustrated by the lack of homosexual-friendly material available in Christian bookstores has created what she describes as “the first LGBT Bible app,” featuring resources that celebrate homosexuality and do not condemn same-sex sexual behavior as being sinful. “This app is for people who identify...