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Earlier this week, Mike Pence hosted a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association at the gay-owned Caribou Club in Aspen, Colorado. Entry to the event was $35,000 per couple and, in the end, the fundraiser pulled in a total of $700,000. Now, the local sheriff’s department says Pence and his team have stiffed them on the $24,000 security bill. “We had a SWAT team from Garfield County here that I want to see get reimbursed,” Sheriff Joe DiSalvo says. “We had...

After having his GoFundMe fundraiser yanked, a new campaign has been launched to help disgraced rugby player Israel Folau raise $1 million to cover his legal expenses after getting fired for being a homophobe. And it’s making serious bank. GoFundMe announced earlier this week that it was suspending Folau’s campaign to raise $3 million to cover his legal expenses after he his contract with the New South Wales Waratahs team was terminated when he wrote a series of antigay social...

This summer, the 46-year-old Stryker is going even bigger in his personal cycling-for-a-cause campaign.He's participating in Bike Zambia from Chooda.org, which is a 13-person, 325-mile ride from Zambia's capital, Lusaka, to Victoria Falls in Livingstone to fundraise for life-changing programs in Zambia. Chooda is committed to promoting the health and well-being, economic stability, and sustainable development of countries abroad by investing into local organizations working in HIV/AIDS, global health, women's empowerment, and economic development.  Chooda's funding provides resources to small...