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> Male Model Monday: Lucas Loyola. <\/a><\/p>\n> Puerto Rico relaxes school uniform rules for LGBT students<\/a>: “Education Secretary Rafael Roman said Monday that the new regulation he recently signed is meant to be inclusive of gay<\/a>, lesbian<\/a> and transgender students. He added that teachers will no longer be allowed to discipline students who prefer to wear pants instead of skirts or vice versa.”<\/p>\n > Britney Spears will appear on Jane The Virgin<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n > The cast of Eastsiders<\/em> voices support for the Equality Act with #ComingOutForEquality campaign. <\/a><\/p>\n > Nefertiti’s tomb may be inside King Tut’s.<\/a><\/p>\n > Jessica Chastain goes high fashion avant garde for W<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n > Marvel Universe to get its first gay character.<\/a><\/p>\n > Jared Leto went to NYC Comic-Con and posed with fans. <\/a><\/p>\n > John Stamos says he’s on good terms with the Olsens. <\/a><\/p>\n > European Parliament demands discrimination against transgender people in the workplace be outlawed. <\/a><\/p>\n > 4 month-old Snow Leopards make their debut at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois.<\/a><\/p>\n > Just how ‘LGBT friendly’ is the Philippines?<\/a><\/p>\n > New bills in Estonia aim to clear up confusion surrounding the country’s Cohabitation Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n > Outtakes from Robin Williams’ Aladdin<\/em> recording sessions to be released.<\/a><\/p>\n > Straight woman<\/a> who converted to Christianity says coming out as Christian harder than coming out as gay. <\/a><\/p>\n > Report suggests major crisis brewing at Pope Francis’s synod on the family<\/a> between Francis and conservative cardinals: “The cardinals warn the Pope, in diplomatic language, that (a) the synod is being hijacked by liberals obsessed with the narrow issue of giving Communion to divorced and remarried people; (b) going down the route of ‘pastoral flexibility’ could lead to the Catholic Church falling apart in the same way as liberal Protestant denominations; and (c) the synod working papers prepared by the Pope’s allies Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri and Archbishop Bruno Forte are a mess and going down badly with the Synod Fathers.”<\/p>\n > The Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) of South Africa, at its recent general synod, has become the first main stream church in South Africa and in Africa<\/a>, that has agreed to conduct gay<\/a> marriages and to ordain openly gay<\/a> and lesbian<\/a> ministers. Previously it only ordained gay<\/a> and lesbian<\/a> clergy if they agreed to remain celibate.<\/p>\n The post News: Male Model Monday, Marvel, Julio of Jackson Heights, The Vatican, Gay Marriage in Africa<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"julio-rivera\"](\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/julio-rivera.jpg?resize=223%2C300\")
> Julio of Jackson Heights<\/em>, documentary about gay<\/a> man<\/a> killed in Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, NY, to air later this month.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"CRDinOOUAAAwfSN\"](\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CRDinOOUAAAwfSN.jpg?resize=300%2C209\")
> Ian McKellen and Armistead Maupin hung out this weekend, raising the bar of #squadgoals everywhere. <\/a><\/p>\n