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Right-wing parties are desperate to stop a marriage equality advocate from becoming president A hopeful to become French president Emmanuel Macron has denied he is cheating on his wife with a man. The En Marche (On The Move) leader is gaining traction in the polls. It looks like he may defeat one of the far-right candidates campaigning on Euro-skepticism, Islamophobia and homophobia to become president. But after being accused of being a puppet of the ‘wealthy gay lobby’, the marriage equality advocate...

Ruh-roh! A married conservative politician from Louisiana has been outed for allegedly having a teenage boyfriend, local New Orleans news station WWL-TV reports. According to his Twitter profile, Republican Mike Yenni is “the President of Jefferson Parish and happily married with one daughter.” But according to the several unnamed sources, he’s a closet case who has been sending some rather racy texts to a teen boy he met at a Catholic high school function while on the campaign trail last year. 40-year-old Yenni and the teen, who was 17...

“A few Anzac years ago you bought me a beer… if you did it now I’d tip the bloody thing over your head”. Australian Conservative MP George Christensen was outraged last week when Queensland lowered the age of consent for anal sex, suggesting the move would lead to16-year-old boys being “preyed upon and groomed” by 50-year-old men. It prompted one of his constituents and long-time party supporters, 71-year-old Peter Roberts, who has a gay son, to write this reply that has...

He is one of the first openly gay men to run for the Duma in modern Russian history. A politician calling for the impeachment of President Vladimir Putin is a very brave thing to do in Russia. Oh, and he’s also one of the first openly gay men to run for the State Duma in modern Russian history. Bulat Barantayev is aiming to represent Novosibirsk for the socially liberal Parnas coalition party. ‘For a long time now, I have used all opportunities to...