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California wildfire ‘sparked by gender reveal party’
The cataclysmic blaze was sparked by "a smoke-generating pyrotechnic", fire officials have said.
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Culture Film & TV
Billy Porter puts Trump on blast in LGBTQ State of the Union address – WATCH
Please be upstanding for OUR gay President.
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‘Gay panic’ defence could soon be scrapped in New Jersey
The bill allows murder charges to be downgraded to manslaughter if the killing was in responses to an unwanted sexual advance
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Kansas City bans gay conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth
This marks the second city in the Missouri state to ban the archaic practice
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Pennsylvania to offer gender-neutral driving licenses
The US state joins 14 others who have introduced non-binary gender options of licenses
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Hawaiian governor bans gay panic defences, gay conversion therapy and introduces non-binary gender driving licences
David Ige signed the three bills into law earlier this week
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Massachusetts becomes 16th US state to ban gay ‘conversion’ therapy for minors
Another battle won - but the war is far from over.
Culture Film & TV
Taylor Swift donates over $100,000 to LGBTQ rights group fighting anti-gay bills in home state of Tennessee
Homophobes, look what you made her do.
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Colorado’s House of Representatives passes bill banning gay conversion therapy
The state will the 16th US state to ban the archaic practice on minors
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South Africa’s National Assembly pass bill to stop marriage officers refusing to marry same-sex couples
The African Christian Democratic Party, the National Freedom Party and the African Independent Congress all objected to the bill
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South Carolina judges are dismissing same-sex domestic abuse cases because of state law
The law currently defines a couple as a "man and woman"
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Florida becomes first state to introduce legislation protecting LGBT youth from conversion therapy
Jose Javier Rodriguez introduced the new Senate Bill 84 this week
Culture Sexuality
Legalised torture: The harrowing reality of forced anal examinations on gay men
State-sponsored abuses of people suspected of being LGBT+ continue in parts of Africa and Asia.
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Hawaii passes bill banning gay conversion therapy
Hawaii has become the 12th US state to ban the practice
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