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- Yesterday’s New York Times editorial applauded how the “pseudotheory” of ex-gay therapy is languishing, saying “it should have been rejected long ago.”
- An Oregon man has filed a complaint against a therapist who offered him ex-gay therapy without his consent.
- Apparently North Carolina pastor Charles Worley has preached against “queers and lesbians” for the past two Sundays.
- Many Indian American leaders have applauded President Obama’s position on marriage equality.
- Should cisgender actors play transgender characters?
- A pair of gay penguins at the Madrid Zoo are eager to raise a chick together.
- Adam Lambert has become the first openly gay artist to top the Billboard albums chart.
- The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons hasn’t been overly discreet about his identity, but he officially came out in a New York Times interview this week.
- Jack Antonoff of the band fun. (“We Are Young”) is HRC’s latest American for Marriage Equality.
- Watch the touching reunion between Navy veteran Lee and his boyfriend Trent, who’d been out to sea for many months:
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