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Baylor Replaces “Homosexual Acts” With “Deviate Sexual” In Student Conduct Code

In 2011, Baylor University, a private Baptist school in Texas, offered a course titled Homosexuality As A Gateway Drug.  And now there’s this. The Student Senate passed the Sexual Misconduct Code Non-Discrimination Act, a proposal to reword Baylor’s Sexual Misconduct Code, in the Student Senate meeting Thursday. The act proposed to remove the phrase “homosexual acts” from the code and …

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Banksy Stripped From NYC Titty Bar

After costumed strippers posed with Banksy’s latest installation, a metal-cutting torch was used to strip the image from the garage door of Larry Flynt’s Huster Club in Manhattan. Gothamist reports: The piece, which went up early yesterday morning and drew crowds all day, seems destined for a framed place of honor inside the strip club. That’s right, soon enough on …

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KANSAS: Christian Couple Stiffs Gay Waiter, Leave Note Calling Him “Fag”

From WTVM in Kansas: A 20-year-old waiter provided exemplary service at an Overland Park Italian restaurant, but his anti-gay customers refused to tip him because of his sexual orientation. As word has spread through social media, other customers are coming in to offer words of encouragement and tip the young server extra. The man works at the Carrabba’s Italian Grill …

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Google Auto-Complete

Inspired by a similar campaign about women’s rights, the United Nation’s human rights office has launched an ad campaign which notes the most common suggestions when Google searches are made on LGBT-related topics. More results are at the link.

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City Of Night Turns 50

John Rechy’s landmark novel, City Of Night, was published 50 years ago this week.  From the Los Angeles Times: The book is a landmark not only of gay literature — it tells the story of a street hustler as he moves through the shadow world of the 1950s — but also of American literature. “City of Night” was not the …

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