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The city of Moncton, New Brunswick says it is waiting for the results of a national report looking into the safety of rainbow crosswalks. City spokesperson Isabelle LeBlanc says officials have ordered the study from the Transportation Association of Canada and must carefully review the results before they can allow any more pedestrian walkways to be painted purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. This all comes after the city already began painting some of its crosswalks to show support for the LGBTQ community in 2017, but...

Image via Twitter: Craig BrooksCraig Brooks — a gay, 26 year old employee of a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Austin, Texas — went viral after posting images of himself calmly denying a room to a woman who had called him a “f*cking n*gger” when making a reservation over the phone. The video is priceless, but just as other web users began applauding him, others quickly unearthed a handful of transphobic tweets he had made in the past. Brooks has since...

The Zodiac is a progression. The signs, while separate, bleed into each other and support each other towards our own collective evolution. Aries becomes Taurus, which becomes Gemini. Each sign is a building block towards the next. It’s important to remember that you are NOT just a jumble of planets and placements– you are the whole of the heavens at the moment of your birth. And your job here on planet Earth is to figure out how to embody...

New York police have launched an investigation to a possible hate crime after two Pride flags were burned outside a Harlem bar. Police responded to a call outside the Alibi Lounge on West 139th street late Friday night. Unknown vandals had set the flags aflame, though by the time police arrived, rainfall had extinguished the fire. Investigators are now trying to determine if the incident should be classified as a hate crime. The news reached New York governor Andrew Cuomo the...

Jonathan Parker, image via the Ada County Sheriff’s OfficeJonathan Parker, the former Idaho Republican Party chairman, was arrested late last week for masturbating in front of his ex-wife’s apartment while wearing a wig (not that wearing a wig is illegal). During his tenure, he helped keep homophobic Republicans in power, perpetuating the lie that LGBTQ people are immoral. The Idaho Statesman reports Boise police arrested Parker on a first-degree felony stalking charge because his ex-wife has a restraining order on him...

What’s it like to get down and dirty with someone who’s closer to 3 than to 6 on the Kinsey scale? Redditors are weighing in, and there’s nary a consensus. The heated discussion started when one Reddit user asked, “Have you noticed any differences when hooking up with gay guys and bisexual guys?” “I’ve met a couple of bi guys for regular fun and honestly they’re just super sweet and protective,” he added, sharing that one of those FWBs made sure...

A man walks into a bar. The women all pause. Then … action! Mouths drop, knees weaken, and one smitten lady after another makes her move. Some pounce, others merely purr. It’s a scenario straight out of a heterosexual male fantasy. What happens, though, when the admirers are men? Does it go from being a straight man’s wet dream to an emotionally distressing nightmare? Will he require therapy to recover? Let’s change the setting to the workplace, where colleagues used to be able...

Good Company in Cleveland, Ohio is a laid back eatery where you can grab a sandwich, an ice cream or a cocktail. But the state government recently threatened to revoke its liquor license unless it put a “men’s” and “women’s” signs on its gender neutral restrooms. Vice reports, “According to the terms of the Ohio Liquor Control Commission, restaurants and bars must have ‘separate toilet facilities for men and women’ in order to have a liquor permit.” The restrooms already had...

Life just gets better and better for Markus Feehily, the youngest member of the Irish boy band Westlife. The 39-year-old announced his engagement to partner Cailean O’Neill in February, and now he says the couple is expecting a baby. Feehily announced the good news with an Instagram photo in which he and O’Neill admire a sonogram image of the incoming addition to their family. “It really makes this my most special birthday EVER to let everyone know that later this...

Daniel Jenkins and Daryl HenryPolice have charged two men in Dallas with the attack and robbery of gay men they targeted on Grindr. Law enforcement officials say Daryl Henry (22) and Daniel Jenkins (20) lured men for dates using the popular gay social app only to beat, rob and in some cases rape victims. The attacks occurred in late 2017. Prosecutors unsealed the indictment–which charges both with violating federal hate crime laws–this week. Court documents detail how Henry and Jenkins targeted men...

A retired police officer was just awarded $1.8 million after it was determined by jury that the police chief discriminated against him for being in the military and because be believed the officer was gay. 50-year-old Kenneth Hagel worked as a Sea Girt police officer and was a member of the U.S. Navy Reserves in Lakehurst, New Jersey for more than 30 years, during which time he was deployed to Kuwait, Guam, and Spain. NJ.com reports: For the record: Hagel identifies as straight and...

The rainbow heart mural at the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School, before and after the Catholic Church complained about it. (image via Garden State EqualityThe Bergen Arts and Science Charter School is a taxpayer-funded public charter school in New Jersey run by a private non-profit organization. But their landlord is the Catholic Church, and because of this, the school was forced to paint over a 16-year-old student’s LGBTQ-supportive mural after parishioners complained about it being “offensive” and “obscene,”...

The Progress Bar released a statement reversing their rap ban and apologizing for it. Their statement is at the end of this article. Progress Bar, a gay bar in Chicago, has been accused of racism after an email leaked of the bar instructing its DJs never to play rap. The email, which was posted on Twitter, read: So let’s parse this out: First, there’s lots of great rap music that totally fits a “positive, happy, energetic, upbeat… fun vibe” including Missy...

All 25-year-old Matthew Furlong wanted to do was “follow in his father’s footsteps” and become a police officer. Two years ago, he applied to join the Cheshire Police Department during a diversity drive. The department was hoping to hire more LGBTQ officers. You know, because diversity is a good thing! There was just one teensy tiny problem. Furlong is not L, G, B, T, or Q. He’s straight. 100% hetero. No homo. Got that? Despite this, he applied for the job anyway and when...