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Josh Hutcherson starred in The Kids Are Alright. (Via – Boy Culture)

Census researchers say there are nine countries around the world where religion may be “headed for extinction.” The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. [snip] Dr Wiener continued: “In a large number …

“If you’re born a male or a female, then you should remain a male or a female on your birth certificate. It’s actually quite deceptive — and it shouldn’t be legal to be able to have a birth certificate that has you identified as one sex when you’re really another sex altogether. I don’t know why we need to have …

Disco legend and gay favorite Loleatta Holloway has died at the age of 64. One of the most powerful and instantly recognizable voices of the genre, Holloway got her start in the 60s as an R&B singer, but in mid-70s she become better known as “the” voice of Salsoul Records, where she fronted the famed Salsoul Orchestra on smash disco …

Not very memorable.

Manhattan’s infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred one hundred years ago this week, spawning the modern American labor movement. HBO’s documentary on the tragedy and the resultant labor reforms airs tonight at 9PM.

JMG reader Mark S. King reports that Walmart’s website refused his review of the It Gets Better book until he removed the word “gay.” King, who contributed to the book with his openly gay brother, writes us: “My submission was nixed because I used the word ‘gay,’ which the site explained was ‘profanity.’ I felt properly chastised and removed the …

According to the authors of a first of its kind study on bird mortality, the American housecat is a “non-native, invasive species” responsible for the deaths of 500 million North American birds annually. Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian …