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Puerto Rico governor urged to resign over ‘cocksuckers’ messages

The governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló is facing calls to resign, after a leaked group chat revealed he made anti-gay jokes to senior aides. Rosselló, a Democrat who has been governor of the US territory since 2017, faced outrage after the contents of his private messages with top aides and officials were leaked. In...
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YouTuber Miles McKenna deadnamed on LGBT panel at VidCon

YouTuber Miles McKenna has said he was addressed with the wrong pronouns and deadnamed while speaking on a panel at VidCon. The LGBT activist asked how “someone that doesn’t know how to address trans people” was invited to moderate an LGBT panel at the event. Writing on Twitter, McKenna said: “Yesterday I was called...
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YouTuber Miles McKenna deadnamed on LGBT panel at VidCon

YouTuber Miles McKenna has said he was addressed with the wrong pronouns and deadnamed while speaking on a panel at VidCon. The LGBT activist asked how “someone that doesn’t know how to address trans people” was invited to moderate an LGBT panel at the event. Writing on Twitter, McKenna said: “Yesterday I was called...
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Canadian ‘LGBT purge’ victims to receive compensation

718 victims of Canada’s “LGBT purge” are receiving compensation for the discrimination they suffered because of “state-sponsored homophobia, bi-phobia and transphobia.” Canada’s “LGBT purge” is the name given to policies which lasted from the 1950s until the 1990s, under...
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Gay politician to face anti-LGBT lawmaker Ruben Diaz in Congress race

Gay, black New York councilman Ritchie Torres has announced he will run for Congress, facing off against anti-LGBT politician Ruben Diaz Sr. Torres, who previously made history as the first out LGBT+ person to represent the Bronx on New York City Council, on Monday (July 15) announced a bid for an open seat in the …...
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LGBT people may be more likely to have memory problems, study finds

A study has found that LGBT+ people have higher rates of memory loss and confusion, two early signs of dementia. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, found LGBT+ people from the US were 29% more likely to report cognitive impairment than their straight or cisgender counterparts. Data from 44,403...