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What a difference a day makes! Former professional rugby player Israel Folau launched a GoFundMe page this week to raise money for his legal expenses after having his four-year $5 million contract with the New South Wales Waratahs canceled after he posted series of homophobic diatribes on social media in April. Yesterday, Folau had only raised $1,300 towards his $3 million goal. Today, he’s raised more than $460,000 and counting from almost 6,000 individuals. Some donors have used their real names when...

Both the Miami Herald and The New York Times published reports this week with lurid new details regarding the Jerry Falwell Jr. x-rated photos scandal that broke earlier this year. Quick backstory: In May, Reuters reported that the evangelical leader contacted Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, for help regarding an “embarrassing personal matter” involving him, his wife, Becki Tilley, and their 20-something pool boy, Giancarlo Granda, in 2016. Rumor had it, Granda had somehow gotten his hands on some scandalous photos...

“It’s gotten better but I can’t make a blanket statement that doesn’t happen anymore. There are always going to be shades of homophobia–sometimes internalized homophobia that I’ve encountered from other gay people in the industry. They might feel that ‘too gay.’ When I first came on the scene almost everybody that I encountered in the music business was very supportive of me personally, but they were all a bit nervous about how it could work publicly. Now it’s...

A new study has made a shocking discovery: men are more likely to hookup using a dating app if the battery on their cellphone is low. Researchers at the Department of Psychology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada completed the study, which appeared in the pages of Sexuality & Culture earlier this month. The conclusion: “When individuals are faced with a low phone battery, a sense of urgency may be experienced.” This can “increase risk-taking behaviors to accommodate an impending phone ‘death.'” The...

Police in Missouri have arrested a man for threatening to murder everyone — yes, everyone — Every. Single. Person — at the St. Louis Pride Parade later this month. Law enforcement apprehended 49-year-old Edward A. Terry earlier this week after linking him to threatening emails sent to STLPride, the organization in charge of St. Louis Pride. In one email, Terry, who is a registered sex offender after being found guilty of aggravated sexual assault against a 43-year-old woman in 1995, said...

Grayson FrittsCracker Barrel has put the brakes on an antigay pastor holding a hate event at one of its locations later this month. Grayson Fritts, a Baptist pastor who also works as a police detective, had planned to hold an event for his congregation at a Cracker Barrel in Cleveland, Tennessee on June 29. The decision to allow Fritts to stage an event at the eatery invited criticism from the Tennessee Democratic Party, which noted that Fritts’ beliefs conflicted with the...

Former professional rugby player Israel Folau is in a bit of a bind and he’s hoping fans will help bail him out… to the tune of $3 million. In April, the now ex-New South Wales Waratahs player took to Instagram to lecture his 330K+ followers about the evils of homosexuality, warning them that “hell awaits … homosexuals,” and urging gay people to “repent” as “only Jesus saves lives.” “Those that are living in sin will end up in Hell unless you...

After ordering a Pride month sign be taken down from outside the university library, the president of the University of Central Arkansas is pushing back against accusations of homophobia. Last week, University President Houston Davis ordered a sign quoting Lady Gaga be removed from the school’s library, claiming it advocated “a personal viewpoint” that could potentially corrupt the minds of young children. The sign was posted by staff members of the university’s Torreyson Library and read: “Being gay is like glitter....

The Fireplace is a cozy Washington D.C. gay bar where locals regularly gather for low-key fun. It’s also the site of a weekend stabbing that injured three people, and the attacker (or attackers) remain at large. The Washington Blade reports that the suspects and their victims got into a verbal dispute on the bar’s second floor at 1:42 a.m. on Sunday night. According to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), “One suspect brandished a knife and stabbed three victims. The suspects...

The president of the University of Central Arkansas ordered a sign quoting Lady Gaga be removed from the school’s library, claiming it advocated “a personal viewpoint” that could potentially corrupt the minds of young children. Earlier this month, staff members of the university’s Torreyson Library made a Pride sign that said: “Being gay is like glitter. It never goes away. — Lady Gaga.” They displayed it on a bulletin board typically used for making special event announcements and activities or to...

The team behind the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ blockbuster hit The Notebook say they are “encouraged” by the author’s “strong statement of support of the LGBTQ+ community” after leaked emails exposed him as a total bigot. As for his racism. Well, they’re turning a blind eye to that. Just to recap: Last week, a series of leaked emails showed that in 2013, Sparks ordered administrators at the Epiphany School of Global Studies, a faith-based prep school he founded...

This is NOT a picture of the accused teen, by the way.Two football playing students from Utah’s Kearns High School have been suspended for sharing a video of them giggling and burning a rainbow flag while saying “All gays die!” Police are also investigating. The video was first posted on Snapchat by a 15-year-old incoming freshman and it was shared by another current student. Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley told ABC News, “We want to make sure every student who...

British reality star Sam Thompson has issued an apology for insensitive tweets he wrote early in his career that have recently resurfaced. “I was wrong to use language like that,” the 26-year-old reality star said of the tweets in which he used the word “gay” as a pejorative. “I’ve grown up a lot since 2013 and would now never be so careless with my choice of words. As a society, we’ve also come a long way, and I think we’re now...

Ryan Thompsen was riding his bike home from work last Thursday in San Jose, California when the driver of a grey Nissan illegally blocked the bike lane. When Thompsen stopped his bike to confront the man about it, the driver went off on a homophobic tirade. And the whole thing was caught on tape. “That’s the bike lane,” Thompsen can be heard saying in the video, which appears to have been recorded from his helmet cam. “Hey, no sh*t,” responds the driver. When...