Court Dumps Virginia's Gay Marriage Ban
(Newser) – A federal appeals court has struck down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban. A three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled today that state constitutional and statutory provisions barring gay marriage and denying …

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Get Baked: The UK Farewell Tour
Here’s a fun(?) fact about Queen Victoria, the great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth and the monarch after whom this dessert is named: she was the one who gave Royal Assent to Britain’s anti-gay law criminalising sex between men — but not women.

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Grandchildren in hand, trans activist Poppy Rose leads 5,000 marchers during Norwich Pride
Over 5,000 people celebrated Gay Pride in the English town of Norfolk over the weekend. Highlighting LGBTI diversity in schools and promoting acceptance in sport, particularly with regards to the current Commonwealth Games, Norwich Pride started by turning …

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President of half of America
The unconstrained political warfare symbolized by House Speaker John Boehner’s pledge to sue President Barack Obama for allegedly abusing his executive authority pushes this presidency farther down a rocky road that Bill Clinton and George W. Bush would painfully recognize.

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'Orphan Black,' Emmy snubs and questions of identity
Gay, straight and transgender; moralist, survivalist and psychopath; tyrant, victim and savior. The human code contains all possibilities, even when it is the code of just one human.

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Understanding the economics of human trafficking
Although Europe is one of the strictest regions in the world when it comes to guaranteeing the respect of human rights, the number of people trafficked to or within the EU still amounts to several hundred thousands a year according to the European Commission. The most common forms of such trafficking include sexual and economic exploitation, the removal of organs and forced illegal activities …

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