Thrillist
The Most LGBTQ-Friendly City in Every Red State in America
1 min · · Lively rainbow dots in a sea of red. · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell
The Mirror
Fury as Ann Widdecombe claims 'science may produce an answer' to homosexuality
6 min · · The Brexit Party MEP and long-time anti-LGBT-rights campaigner made the comment in a TV clash as she defended her praise for "gay conversion" · Shared by 14, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
The Pride I’ll never forget: ‘There were only thousands of us there. But we felt like millions’
8 min · · Damian Barr recalls how his first Pride – and Scotland’s – changed him and the country, Ella Braidwood on laying to rest her difficult childhood in Carlisle and Yas Necati on finding peace performing… · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
Psychology Today
Are LGBTQ+ People More Likely to Stay Friends With Their Exes?
5 min · · LGBTQ+ individuals may have many motivations for remaining friends with exes. · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
Noël Coward's private lives: the photographs that could have landed him in jail
5 min · · A newly discovered album contains intimate, joyful glimpses of the playwright drinking, partying and holidaying with his famous friends and lovers. The result is an astonishing insight into gay life… · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
NBC News
Russian LGBTQ activist is killed after being listed on ‘Saw’-inspired site
3 min · · Yelena Grigoryeva sounded the alarm after her name appeared on a website that offered prizes for attacking gays. Days later, she was dead. · Shared by 12, including Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Rick Powell
The Guardian
50 years after Stonewall: Yuval Noah Harari on the new threats to LGBT rights
12+ min · · With rising homophobia and rapid developments in surveillance, a new era of persecution is all too possible. It is time to unite and act · Shared by 12, including Yuval Noah Harari, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Homophobic crimes rise by more than a third in France
2 min · · Figures released on eve of International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia show 36% leap in offences · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell
Jezebel
Define 'Homophobic'
8 min · · Imagine my surprise when late last week, I, an out gay man, found myself enrolled in an online course on homophobia that was attempting to teach me something I didn’t know. I thought I’d seen it all:… · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell
The Washington Post
Some U.S. embassies still hoisting rainbow flags, despite advisory from Washington
· “This is a category one insurrection,” one diplomat says of displays celebrating Gay Pride Month. · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell
CNN
China's LGBT community excited by Pete Buttigieg's presidential run
3 min · · With the official launch of his presidential campaign Sunday, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is pitching to become the first openly gay US President in history. · Shared by 11, including Thomas Power, Rick Powell
HuffPost
I'm 57 Years Old And My Father Just Disowned Me For Being Gay
7 min · · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
The Independent
Homosexuality and bisexuality commonplace in thousands of animal species and may play key role in evolution, research finds
3 min · · Same-sex behaviours can be advantageous from a natural selection perspective as individuals 'more likely to mate with more partners', scientists say · Shared by 10, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Rick Powell
PBS
There is no ‘gay gene.’ There is no ‘straight gene.’ Sexuality is just complex, study confirms
7 min · · A genetics study of nearly half a million people closes the door on a long-standing debate in sexuality. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
The Critic of Gay Desire
11+ min · · Leo Bersani was a groundbreaking queer studies scholar who rejected the word “queer.” We can still learn from his contrarian sense of what made homosexuals unique. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
Lil Nas X Is Attacking the Incoherence of Homophobia
4 min · · A crop of anti-gay comments by fellow rappers suggests that bigotry is on the defensive in hip-hop right now. · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell