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– NerdWallet has launched a new tool to help LGBT couples untangle their financial, legal, and tax complications.
– Just like straight couples, gay couples with kids have less time and energy to have sex.
– Watch the “hundreds” (tens?) of Dump General Mills protesters debate whether Lucky the Leprechaun is gay.
– Advocates for the marriage equality initiative in Maine have raised over $1 million and had face-to-face or phone conversations with over 100,000 people.
– A gay U.S. foreign service officer spoke at the Chilean LGBT rights march.
– Cuban activists held a kiss-in on Thursday, demanding LGBT equality from the government.
– The founder of the International Day Against Homophobia has launched a hunger strike until the French president introduces a United Nations resolution to decriminalize homosexuality, as promised.
– In Australia, 40 percent of gay couples identify as Christian.
– Six in ten Scottish LGBT people have witnessed homophobia in sports.
– What’s it like growing up with a transgender parent?
– Washington United for Marriage has released a series of new videos about why marriage matters for same-sex couples: