Sex robots could be 'biggest trend of 2016' as more lonely humans seek mechanical companions

Sex robots could be 'biggest trend of 2016' as more lonely humans seek mechanical companions
“It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t. Dr Ian Pearson even wrote in a report produced for online sex shop Bondara: “Brothels and strip clubs will soon include robots and they will be a specific fetish for some people, as well as a potentially …

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Rewind: Web chat with Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes

Rewind: Web chat with Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes
Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable Neil Rhodes joins The Lincolnite for a web chat this lunch time to answer your questions. Chief Constable Neil Rhodes has joined us at The Lincolnite offices and will be here for the next hour responding to questions …

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The Awesome Queerness in Choice of Robots

The Awesome Queerness in Choice of Robots
Someone in a blind accessibility chat room suggested text-based games to me. Most of these aren’t written with the blind community in mind, but text-readers can be set up to narrate the choices to the player. I went on the hunt for great text-based games.

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The students running 'white unions' on US campuses

The students running 'white unions' on US campuses
The BBC spoke to a number of them. While they asked to remain anonymous, they agreed to video chat and make contact using their university email addresses. One student, known only as Ajay, runs the Iowa State White Student Union Facebook page. He says he …

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The Family Law’s Ben Law Tells B&T About His Upcoming SBS Sitcom

The Family Law’s Ben Law Tells B&T About His Upcoming SBS Sitcom
Based on the memoir of the same name it follows the tribulations of growing up gay in an Asian-Australian family in Queensland. The book’s author Benjamin Law spoke to B&T on why he hopes the show ruffles a few TV feathers… Despite the TV show being …

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AL Chief Justice Defies Supreme Court, Orders Probate Judges To Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couple

AL Chief Justice Defies Supreme Court, Orders Probate Judges To Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couple

Today, HRC strongly condemned a shameful order from Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore saying the state’s probate judges “have a ministerial duty” not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming a nationwide right to marriage equality.

“Yet again, Chief Justice Roy Moore is flagrantly defying the rule of law, and empowering those who wish to stand between same-sex couples and their constitutional right to marry the person they love,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “Regardless of what Roy Moore says, marriage equality is the law of the land. His obstructionist tactics tarnish the reputation of the great state of Alabama, and we urge all of the state’s probate judges to issue licenses to same-sex couples, as is their duty under the law. Moore’s personal opinions are not at issue here. As a judge, he has an obligation to follow the law. If he refuses to do so, he should be removed from office.”

Claiming the Supreme Court did not specifically address Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges case, Moore justified his unconscionable position by quoting a state law that says he can “take affirmative and appropriate action to correct or alleviate any condition or situation adversely affecting the administration of justice within the state.”

 Today, HRC strongly condemned a shameful order from Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore saying the state’s probate judges “have a ministerial duty” not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision affirming a nationwide right to marriage equality.

“Yet again, Chief Justice Roy Moore is flagrantly defying the rule of law, and empowering those who wish to stand between same-sex couples and their constitutional right to marry the person they love,” said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. “Regardless of what Roy Moore says, marriage equality is the law of the land. His obstructionist tactics tarnish the reputation of the great state of Alabama, and we urge all of the state’s probate judges to issue licenses to same-sex couples, as is their duty under the law. Moore’s personal opinions are not at issue here. As a judge, he has an obligation to follow the law. If he refuses to do so, he should be removed from office.”

Claiming the Supreme Court did not specifically address Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage in the historic Obergefell v. Hodges case, Moore justified his unconscionable position by quoting a state law that says he can “take affirmative and appropriate action to correct or alleviate any condition or situation adversely affecting the administration of justice within the state.”

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Trans passenger forced to remove prosthetic genitalia in search

Trans passenger forced to remove prosthetic genitalia in search
At an ongoing Australian Senate inquiry into airline security … (Editor’s note: This post was originally published on our media partner HuffPost Gay Voices.)

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