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Bryan Fischer is affiliated with the American Family Association, which has been designated as a hate group. You can always count on ultra-conservative kook Bryan Fischer for an outrageously homophobic soundbite. The Fundamentalist Christian pundit brought up gay sex Monday as host of Focal Point on American Family Radio, which is run by the American Family Association, Media Matters reports. Fischer broached the subject by defending fellow Christian homophobe Franklin Graham’s recent remarks that Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality is “something...

Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon made it into the top six, with a performance of Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever." Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon has shared the struggle he is going through with his parents not accepting that he’s gay, but the American Idol contestant was able to perform in front of them on the show for the first time on Sunday. His take on Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” brought them to their feet, as well as the rest of...

Andi Mack, the Disney Channel show that features an out-gay teen and earned the network a fair number of “firsts”, has been canceled. The tween dramedy series’ third and final season will air this summer, according to Deadline. While certainly an entertainment niche, Andi Mack rose to national prominence in 2017 when a 13-year-old character, Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) told his friends Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and Buffy (Sofia Wylie) that he had feelings for Andi’s boyfriend, Jonah (Asher Angel). That moment...

'I am proud to be a gay son of God,' he said A student came out publicly during his valedictorian speech at a prominent Mormon college in the US. Matty Easton attended his graduation ceremony at Brigham Young University on 26 April ready to deliver the most important speech of his life. In his speech, Easton gave a shout out to his LGBTI friends at BYU, before revealing he himself identifies as gay. ‘I stand before my family, friends, and graduating class today...

The relationship app is 'designed to be deleted' The first openly-LGBTI candidate in the 2020 US presidential race, Pete Buttigieg, has revealed he met his husband Chasten Glezman on dating app Hinge. The mayor of South Bend called the relationship app a ‘very millennial thing’ on CNN’s Van Jones show. Hinge uses Facebook to facilitate connections and prompts users to continue conversations. It takes the slogan ‘designed to be deleted’. ‘I saw this light, something in his eyes’ Buttigieg said of his now-husband....

Rest in power, Nigel. A gay teen from Huntsville, Alabama, has died by suicide after enduring anti-gay bullying. Nigel Shelby, a 15-year-old freshman at Huntsville High School, was bullied at school by classmates because of his sexuality. He reportedly died last week. https://www.facebook.com/RocketCityPrideAL/posts/2201450500171312 Tennessee Valley Rocket City Pride, a local LGBTQ advocacy group, shared the news of Shelby’s death on Facebook with links to resources for queer youth in the region. “There are no words that can be said to make sense of...

Easter is a holiday that is designed for the family and close loved ones in mind. It is, of course, another prime example of gay men creating a fabulous hashtag like #GayEaster on social media to show off their colorful holiday spirit on such a cheery day. There seems to be a hashtag for everything, and #GayEaster may just be my new favorite based on what came up after I perused the photos that appeared throughout this particular Sunday. Some decided...

His loved ones say 28-year-old Trevor Gray isn't actually gay, but "it wouldn't matter if he were." A 28-year-old man in Mississippi was brutally beaten up because his assailants thought he was gay. According to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, Trevor Gray, who’d recently moved back to his home region of Wayne County, went out to a local bar in hopes of making new friends last week. His Friday night took a turn for the worse when two fellow patrons—Landon McCaa, 32,...

"I realized that you only get to be one person." Pete Buttigieg sat down with Rachel Maddow for a wide ranging interview, including opening up about how difficult it was to be closeted and what it took for him to come out. Buttigieg came out in 2015, while serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a position he still holds today. Maddow noted that she had come out while still in college, becoming the first openly gay American Rhodes Scholar. She...

Talk about a gay-straight alliance! Bryce Richard, a gay nursing student in New Orleans, said his straight best friend, Trent Miller, offered to be Richard’s date to his school’s spring formal. And now gays the world over are posting photos of their own Trents. https://twitter.com/yuhhboybryce/status/1114978628310306816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1114978628310306816&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.queerty.com%2Fgay-student-surprised-straight-bff-wanted-spring-formal-date-20190413 Richard revealed the heart-warming story via Twitter on April 7, writing that Miller was confused when Richard told him he didn’t have a date to the gala. “Why didn’t ask me?” Miller said, according to...

The religious right is upset that out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken the nation by storm. Evangelical leaders are claiming the small town Indiana mayor isn’t actually a Christian because he is gay. They’re particularly perturbed he’s had the temerity to challenge holier-than-thou Vice President Pence’s conservative brand of evangelical Christianity and President Donald Trump’s lack of “Christian values” despite being embraced by the religious right. Buttigieg has made it a point to mention his faith during his media appearances...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - "We're not seen as humans by some people," said Emmit Davis, a transgender man in Colorado Springs brutally attacked with his partner by a group of men. Davis and his partner of 6 months pictured above. The attack happened this past Saturday as Davis and his partner were sitting outside on their porch. "For it to happen in our own front yard, it was pretty terrifying," he said. Davis said three men jumped over the fence to his property...

A 20-something man says he recently logged onto his dad’s personal computer and made a shocking discovery. Now, he’s turning to Reddit for help. It all started when the man, who claims to be 26 and straight, used his father’s laptop to go to YouTube. “As I typed in ‘you’ it tried to autofill me into the website Youporn with some homosexual title to the video,” the man writes. “At first I couldn’t believe what I was seeing given my father...

One of the many things we love about out Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy is that he does not suffer fools lightly. With the annual Breck Pride Week happening this week (April 3-7) in Colorado, the Breckenridge Ski Resort posted a photo on social media last week featuring skiers racing down the mountain with a rainbow Pride flag. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvcqraKncZz/?utm_source=ig_embed But, right on cue, anti-LGBTQ haters had to show up and troll the posts. “Okay, my question is, why don’t we have a straight event...