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Alabama’s Secretary of State, John Merrill, who is also eyeing up a Senate bid, has claimed that pop culture has become too obsessed with “homosexual activities”. Yellowhammer News reports that he made the comments at a campaign event in Fort Payne. When asked about a cultural shift in pop culture, he slammed politicians for allowing it to happen. “That’s what we’ve allowed to happen. How have we allowed it to happen?” he said. “There are no more good TV shows on like...

A gay teenager says his family cut off his earlobe to permanently “mark” him as an abomination. The 19-year-old, who has only been identified as “Modou” in the press, is seeking asylum in the Netherlands on the basis of his sexual orientation. Homosexuality is currently punished with life imprisonment in his home country of The Gambia. Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh had previously threatened to “cut the heads” off any LGBTI person. “I was so afraid to tell my family about my...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump presented a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said. With U.S. lawmakers’ August recess looming, the official did not give a timetable for introducing the bill to Congress, but described it as laying out the president’s vision to rally Republicans around a detailed proposal. The president will meet with Republican congressional...

Members of the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified Germany's Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission — making her the first woman to fill the EU's top job. It is not the first time she has made history: in 2013, she became Germany's first female defence minister, a position she has held ever since. The Brussels-born 60-year-old has been a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for several years and it was once thought she...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump planned to present a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said. With U.S. lawmakers’ August recess looming, the official did not give a timetable for introducing the bill to Congress, but described it as laying out the president’s vision and unifying Republicans around a detailed proposal. The bill has 10 Republican...

Families of 24 detained Ukrainian sailors have expressed pessimism over their potential release later today. A court in Moscow is set to decide whether to extend their custody. The two-dozen sailors were detained by the Russian Navy last November in the Kirch Strait, off the Crimean peninsula. The sailors and three of their navy vessels were fired upon and captured by Russia as they attempted to pass through the Kirch Strait, a narrow stretch of water that separates mainland Russia from...

Former Sand Lake Village President Tom Norton is running to unseat newly-Independent Rep. Justin Amash, who currently represents Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District. The Republican candidate on Tuesday unveiled a new campaign ad claiming that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Amash “both support taxpayer-funded sex changes.” “Justin Amash is having an identity crisis,” Norton says in the ad titled “Hold the Sausage.” “He, like Nancy Pelosi, both support taxpayer funded sex changes,” Norton claims as he can be seen serving his...

The Center Launches the Host Homes Program On the heels of the startling news that homelessness in Los Angeles County rose 12 percent over the last year, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is doing its part to curb the crisis by introducing Host Homes, a new program in which youth experiencing homelessness are sheltered in local private homes. The Center is seeking a diverse pool of residents who are interested in opening up their homes for short periods of time to...

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R), who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate last week, claims Americans are too “preoccupied with homosexual activities” and “the wife swap shows” and it is ruining everything from TV to the country’s moral direction. Merrill, one of multiple Republicans looking to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in 2020, made the controversial comments over the weekend at a town hall event in Dekalb County, according to the Yellowhammer News. One attendee asked Merrill about the...

Members of the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified Germany's Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission — making her the first woman to fill the EU's top job. It is not the first time she has made history: in 2013, she became Germany's first female defence minister, a position she has held ever since. The Brussels-born 60-year-old has been a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for several years and it was once thought she...

Jacob Tobia is tired of being asked where non-binary stops and trans starts. “At a certain point I want to say, ‘Can you stop dissecting me? I’m a person,’” the author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story said. “I don’t want to dissect my community like that. I don’t want to dissect my chosen family like that. I just know what feels like home when it feels like home.” Tobia, who identifies as genderqueer, made their comments during a panel discussion at...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nationwide wave of arrests of immigrants facing deportation will commence over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, confirming that the plan, intended to discourage a surge of Central American migrants, was on track after a delay. The operation is expected to target hundreds of families in 10 cities that have recently been ordered deported by an immigration court but have not yet left the country. Trump revealed the operation on Twitter...

La Fille du Régiment tells the story of Marie, a young girl abandoned on a battlefield by her family who has been rescued and raised by the 21st army regiment. Her foster-father Sulpice decrees that she should only marry a man from the regiment, as a token of gratitude for being saved by them – which complicates matters when she falls for the Tyrolean Tonio. Upon learning Marie’s fate, Tonio enlists in the 21st regiment in a bid to...

A woman recognised by a Spanish court as one of the Franco dictatorship’s "stolen babies" has found her biological family thanks to DNA testing done in the United States, she announced on Thursday. Franco came to power in 1939, after defeating the Republican left-wing party in the Spanish civil war. During his regime, he tried to purge Spain from Marxist influence, which explains how the practice of taking babies away from left-wing families was born. Many of these newborns were...