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A Trump administration lawyer who is in charge of a civil rights division had multiple run-ins with the law for his aggressive protests for Christian conservative causes and harassment of women. Matt Bowman is a Christian conservative extremist, and he also happens to be one of the top lawyers in Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Mother Jones reports that he was arrested multiple times from 1996 to 2002 for harassing women while protesting hospitals where he...

A Media Matters investigation found that major news networks have been largely ignoring the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights. While several new anti-LGBTQ initiatives were announced in the past few weeks, four of the major broadcast and cable news networks did not cover them at all, while the other two spent less than 11 minutes in total covering the initiatives over a 10-day period. Media Matters cited three attacks on LGBTQ rights from this past month. First, the Department of...

Industry experts told L.A. reporter Karl Schmid, "Don't—it'll ruin you." A reporter with ABC News came out as HIV positive in a heartfelt Facebook post that’s gone viral. Karl Schmid, a 37-year-old correspondent with KABC Channel 7 in L.A., usually covers human interest and entertainment stories, including this year’s Academy Awards. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf852tOlWlX/?utm_source=ig_embed But the Australian journalist became the subject of the story on Friday, when he decided to share his status. “For ten years I’ve struggled with ‘do I or don’t I?’” wrote...

It’s been announced that ABC has greenlit the production of a new comedy. The series will be a merging of multiple groups such as the LGBTQ community, the South, and the Latin-American community. The story will be about a Tejano, a Mexican-American living in Southern Texas, who moves back to be with his family. But the thing is, he moves back with a husband and baby. This family story will be both something we’ve all seen before (meaning a "modern family"...

'We Are So Moved and Humbled' ABC’s newsman Gio Benitez said “I do” to his fiancé - hunky model Tommy DiDario in Miami on Saturday, 16th of April. https://www.instagram.com/p/BEU7DffmjIt/?taken-by=tommydidario The couple was joined by 160 close friends and nearest and dearest who witnessed how the lovebirds exchanged their self-written vows before sunset near the historic Walton House, a gorgeous English cottage surrounded by tropical gardens. My forever and always! https://www.instagram.com/p/BER0qvSmjHF/?taken-by=tommydidario "It's so special to see how excited our friends and family have been about this wedding," admitted Benitez, 30. "It truly...