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The Palm Institute has received a $1.3M private grant to study transgender military service. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Indra Lusero, the project director of the Palm Center’s Transgender Military Initiative, has commissioned 16 scholars to conduct 11 studies investigating “whether and how the U.S. armed forces could include transgender troops without undermining readiness”—in areas ranging from privacy and medical …

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Their follow-up to the inescapable I Love It, which went multiple platinum all over the world and was heard five times a day during Bear Week.

An interesting report notes that Sweden’s national recycling program is so successful, they’ve actually run out of garbage. Sweden’s waste management and recycling programs are second to none as only four percent of the nation’s waste ends up in landfills. By contrast, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, over half of the waste produced by U.S. households ends up …

JMG reader Robert notes there’s lots of gay activism among Brazil’s rise in citizen journalists.  This clip is a great example.

“So who on earth does the IOC, or Putin for that matter, think they’re kidding with their ‘assurances’? Can they really be so entirely naïve or so thoroughly cynical that they don’t think non-Russian LGBT people or our allies care about what’s been happening to our Russian counterparts in the wake of Putin’s edicts so long as our own skins …

According to Quinnipiac Poll issued yesterday, Bill de Blasio is benefiting from Anthony Weiner’s tumble to fourth place in the New York City mayoral race. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has surprisingly shot up to second place in the Democratic primary for mayor, as scandal-scarred candidate Anthony Weiner’s numbers continued to tumble in the wake of his latest sexting scandal, …

Over the weekend Christie took on the libertarians: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians — including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism. “This strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought,” the New Jersey …

“Summarizing the pope’s comments on homosexuals in the priesthood, the AP reported: ‘Francis was much more conciliatory [than Pope Benedict], saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten.’ Pope Francis didn’t say that, and the report is wrong on so many levels. First of all, it suggests that being gay itself, is a sin. What Pope Francis really …

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