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They Slay: Five Queer Rappers You Should Know

Arts, Culture & Media

Hip-hop’s persistent homophobia hasn’t kept LGBTQ rappers from taking the mic. Here are five to watch out for.

Members of San Diego's LGBT community gather to celebrate the expiration of the U.S. military policy "Don't Ask Don't Tell," September 20. 2011.

New White House guidelines leave transgender service members and vets in limbo

Justice
Lesbians in Senegal are left out of the gay rights movement organized around HIV prevention and treatment. And they're also left out of the women's movement: "Some women's groups ... don't want to have anything to do with gay women," says Ndeye Kebe.

Lesbians in Senegal just want a place where they can be themselves

Culture
Former Army Captain Easton Branam.

Looking back on the legacy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Sexuality
Marcelo Crivella, the new mayor of Rio de Janeiro, gestures to photographers after voting during the municipal elections on Oct. 30.

Rio just elected a very conservative mayor. Activists are worried about LGBT rights.

Global Politics
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Comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh is the co-host of the podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim.

Coming out as bisexual when you’re Muslim and married

Culture

“I’m bisexual,” I said into the microphone, “and I’m married to a man. That’s not an erasure….”

One of London’s oldest gay bars is pouring its last pint

Food

The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London’s gay community since about the 1920s.The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London’s gay community since about the 1920s.

Black Lives Matters protesters at Toronto's Pride Parade, July 3th, 2016.

Black Lives Matter protesters stop Toronto’s Pride parade

Global Politics

Black Lives Matter demonstrators say they were protesting “anti-blackness” with a sit-in that stalled Pride Toronto.

People visit a vigil for the victims of the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, June 14, 2016.

Tuesday’s developments in the Orlando shooting

Conflict

New information suggests that Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Orlando nightclub shooting, was on a terrorist watch list. And also that his wife tried to talk him out of his attack — but never notified law enforcement.

People join hands around group as they exit building

‘For a lot of our families, having a son or a daughter who is gay maybe was a secret until this weekend’

Culture

Advocates in Orlando hope tragedy can lead to healing of divisions, for Latinos and for the nation.

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