Speaker Mike Johnson frets that high schoolers increasingly identify as LGBTQ in fundraising email: 'We have much to repent for'

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House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol on November 28, 2023.
House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol on November 28, 2023.

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Cops raided gay bars in Moscow and documented its customers 2 days after Russia's top court deemed LGBTQ+ groups 'extremist'

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LGBT activists wave their flags during a rally in Moscow, Russia in July 2020.
LGBT activists wave their flags during a rally in Moscow, Russia in July 2020.

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An ex-Qatar Airways flight attendant says he was fired and deported after police found he was wearing tinted moisturizer, then accused him of being a sex worker

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an Airbus A350 of Qatar Airways company after taking off from the Toulouse-Blagnac airport
A Qatar Airways A350.

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'Give him the benefit of the doubt': Why one gay GOP leader is holding his fire on Mike Johnson — and wants to know if he has any gay friends

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Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Mike Johnson warned the US was going down a 'dark and depraved' path before he was named speaker and said the country 'almost seems irredeemable'

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Mike Johnson
US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Bayard Rustin organized the 1963 March on Washington but was nearly written out of civil rights history because he was openly gay. He was also my life partner.

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Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin
Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin.

Courtesy of Walter Naegle

Guide to buying a home as an LGBTQ+ person

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Our experts answer readers' home-buying questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess mortgages). In some cases, we receive a commission from our partners; however, our opinions are our own.

A gay Israeli soldier says he's going to fly the LGBTQ+ flag on his tank while fighting Hamas

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Yoav Atzmoni holding an LGBTQ+ flag in front of two tanks in Israel
Yoav Atzmoni holding an LGBTQ+ flag in front of two tanks in Israel

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New House Speaker Mike Johnson once wrote that homosexuality will lead to 'chaos and sexual anarchy'

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Mike Johnson
US Rep. Mike Johnson leaves a House Republican conference meeting in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on October 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.

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An American LGBTQ+ activist who fled Israel during Hamas attacks says she never imagined feeling safer in Dubai, where being gay is a crime

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Rockets are fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel.
Rockets are fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel.

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