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Flippo Magnini / Image via Instagram @filomagno82 A former Italian Olympic swimmer is being praised for saving a married gay man from drowning. According to the BBC, 45-year-old Andrea Benedetto recently married his boyfriend in Cagliari, Italy. The two were then celebrating with a beach trip on the island of Sardinia. But disaster struck while on the water. The pair were sitting in an inflatable unicorn when Benedetto fell into the water, which was colder than expected. Even worse, Benedetto was incapable...

Mike Pompeo recently announced a new government commission that will decide what constitutes a human right. Image via BBC. Secretary of State Pompeo has a commission in the making that will reevaluate what “human rights” means, potentially harming marginalized groups such as LGBTQ people, according to The New Yorker. On Monday after announcing the formation of the commission, named the Commission on Unalienable Rights, Pompeo explained that the group will be responsible for reviewing “the role of human rights in American...

A poster was taken down because it perpetuated homophobic myths and stereotypes. Image via Weibo from SCMB.com After outrage on various social media platforms, an HIV awareness poster was removed from Hengxian No.2 High School for having a “harm of homosexuality” column, according to Global Times. An employee at the high school was responsible for putting up the poster as part of an AIDS prevention campaign that the school was participating in. The employee, however, did not closely review the contents...

The iconic tv series Queer As Folk is returning in two different iterations. / Image via Channel 4 Not only are we getting a Queer As Folk reboot in the UK, but we’re getting a French one too?! Queer as Folk was an iconic tv series, created by tv legend Russel T. Davies and produced by Nicola Shindler, that originally ran in the UK for eight episodes in 1999 and then a two-episode follow-up in 2000. Despite its short run, the...

Image via the Public Domain Will Hurd wants his fellow republicans to start acting like the upstanding citizens they claim to be. While at a function organized by the conservative group the Log Cabin Republicans, U.S. House Representative Will Hurd, the only Black Republican House member, pleaded that his fellow party members, “Don’t be an a–hole. Don’t be a racist. Don’t be a misogynist, right? Don’t be a homophobe.” According to the Washington Blade, almost 70 people were at the bipartisan event...

Illinois Governor Jay Pritzker recently signed an executive order that focuses on making schools safer for transgender students. Image by Jose M. Osorio via Chicago Tribune. On June 30th, Governor Pritzker of Illinois signed an executive order that is designed to minimize discrimination, bullying, and harassment, of transgender students, according to Think Progress.  As per the order, a twenty-five person task force called the Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, a group made up of parents, students, teachers, medical professionals, and...

Jonathan Lowe and Jimmy Tran are a testament to what “commitment” can truly mean in our community. Celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary in September and being together for sixteen years, they are slowly becoming an example in their own community, and are also starting to learn to be a source of strength for their community in small steps. They are also beginning to to use their own journey together as just one example of the types of relationships in...

Photo by Steven Van on Unsplash A Florida church is being recognized for supporting LGBTQ teens. In Jacksonville, Florida, the Storybook Pride Prom was a proposed event to honor LGBTQ teens. At it, the teens were given a space to be themselves, date, and have fun with others like them and their allies. Unfortunately, this year’s event was almost canceled thanks to conservative backlash. The Willowbranch Library was going to host the event where teens could dress in the costumes of their...

Screenshot via Twitter @ABCNewsLive A US Army specialist has come out on national TV. This past weekend was the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. To honor Stonewall and the legacy of Pride that followed it, the World Pride Parade in New York City was visited by around 3 million people. And one of those three million was Brion Houston. ABC News was in Manhattan to record the parade and all of its participants/watchers. During the day, they caught up with Houston...

Photo by Devon Divine on Unsplash An Ivy League school is trying to archive gay history and literature. If you hear titles like Biker’s Lust, The Book of Studs, The Leatherman’s Handbook, and Astrogay, you normally wouldn’t think of cherished tomes held by Brown University. But, they are. The John Hay Library at Brown University has collected over 4,600 paperback books for its gay pulp fiction archive. The collection of books from the 1950s and 1990s is being kept so that LGBTQ...

LGBT Elders experience their first Pride parade thanks to the Dublin Bus / Screenshot via YouTube @Dublin Bus Get ready for your daily dose of adorableness. It seems that with the 50th anniversary of pride, there’s been a lot of conversation about the history of gay rights and Pride. In addition, there’s a need to recognize where those two things are today. But how about merging the two, past and present? That’s what a new YouTube video by the Dublin Bus...

An Irish priest recently compared gay people to zombies, a move that left people speechless. Image via Express.co.ukTom Forde, a priest at the Friary in Kilkenny compared LGBTQ people to zombies during his sermon which stunned the people attending the service, according to Attitude. He prefaced this homily by saying that people may disregard what he says and then goes on to say that he likes zombies and then lists TV shows and movies that feature zombies. He described zombies...

Image via PexelsThe ever controversial Transgender military ban may be dwindling. Two years ago, US President Donald Trump announced, through Twitter, his plans to ban newly enlisted transgender military service people. While several federal judges pushed back that executive order, it eventually took effect two months ago. But now, it appears that the ban has done more harm than good for Trump, as the idea is losing favor with his political party. A...

Photo by Nathaniel Tetteh on UnsplashA change is coming to Africa. While Kenya’s High Court has decided to keep laws against gay sex in the country, the country of Botswana has made the opposite decision. Botswana’s High Court has ruled to end colonial-era laws criminalizing sex between members of the same sex. Section 164 of Botswana’s Penal Code stated that “carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature,” was an offense...