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Via press release: Today, Free & Equal, the United Nations Human Rights Office’s global public education campaign for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, releases “UN Free & Equal: One Billion Rising” a video highlighting the campaign’s impact to date. “In the past year, more than a billion people around the world have been exposed to Free & Equal’s …

New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, who last week earned widespread condemnation for praising Uganda’s brutally anti-gay regime, yesterday lost his Democratic primary bid for the state Senate. Retaining his seat is Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who took 60% of the vote. Gay City News recaps Cabrera’s downfall: At a time when that government was trying to enact a harshly anti-gay …

The band debuted this track at yesterday’s Apple launch event. Via the Telegraph: On first impressions, Songs of Innocence is not an attempt to create a grand masterpiece that redefines the band, but rather, as the title suggests, to reconnect them with an elusive pop elixir of youthful energy and passion. Lyrically, it reflects on the past, on their origins …

The same Broward County judge that last month struck down Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage has rescinded his own ruling on a technicality. Via the Miami Herald: “It has come to this Court’s attention that the Petitioner, Heather Brassner, has failed to comply with [state law] by failing to notice the Office of the Attorney General of these proceedings by …

Via press release: For many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in Central Brooklyn, being rejected by parents or family members can lead to risky and dangerous behavior. Project Accept LGBT Youth (ALY), a CAMBA HIV prevention initiative, is working to change this by encouraging parents, guardians and families to accept these young people. Funded by the New York …

Just in via email: Joe, In the newest “Live in Levi’s” commercial, there are many suggestions of what you can do in your Levi jeans. The ad states consumers can do many things in their Levi’s. For several reasons this Levi commercial is distasteful and sends youth the wrong message. Many have found the “unbutton them” and “button them” segment …

Trump Entertainment files for bankruptcy again: http://t.co/3Urfu5F6LK pic.twitter.com/UL0vZN7pKt— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) September 9, 2014

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It’s called the Apple Watch – not the iWatch. Apple today also unveiled the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Pay.