Lifting the Veil on the New York Public Library’s Erotica Collection
“We collected in the heyday of midcentury gay erotica,” Mr. Baumann said … published in Paris in 1955 after Nabokov failed to find a publisher in the United States. Also in the Berg Collection, in the archived papers of Terry Southern, the …

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Advertising watchdog defends gay hook-up ads at train stations
The app’s ads were previously removed from trains in Canada – after the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) claimed they encouraged gay commuters to “break the law”. TTC spokesperson Danny Nicholson said: “The ad was taken down as it promoted sex in …

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Broke, hungover, lambless – the new year can only get better
In Ireland, New Year’s Day is further complicated thanks to … Friedrich Nietzsche, while killing off God in The Gay Science in 1882, also pledged that for the new year he would embrace positivity and celebrate the beauty in things.

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Christmas box office: Star Wars sinks Titanic and heads for Avatar
Photo: Hilary Bronwyn Gay. The family decision over which animated movie to see went in favour of Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur ($4.5 million) over Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip ($3.8 million). The Force Awakens’ success in Australia echoes its results …

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Happy New Year from HRC!

This year, HRC is committed to moving #EqualityForward.

HRC will continue to work with lawmakers and advocates to pass the Equality Act in Congress, as well as work towards strong anti-discrimination protections at the local and state levels.

We will continue the fight against HIV & AIDS, anti-transgender violence and will make sure that all families are treated equally. We will work to increase critical protections and policies through our Healthcare Equality Index, Municipal Equality Index, State Equality Index and Corporate Equality Index for a more advanced and inclusive society.

We will work with advocates from around the world, from Australia to China, Mongolia, South Africa and Turkey to advance equality worldwide.

We wish you a happy new year and hope you can join us in celebrating the victories and remembering the moments of the past year, as well as what lays ahead in 2016.

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From Leo Vardkar to The Dress – test your brain with our end of year general and news knowledge quiz 2015
Do you log the tries of all New Zealand’s rugby games? How’s your knowledge of Irish … But please remember – Googling takes all the fun out of it…) TD Leo Varadkar came out as gay, live on radio, to which RTE presenter?

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Gay Open Marriages Need To Come Out of the Closet
Monogamish couples are a constant presence on apps like Grindr and Scruff, which allow gay men to connect with other men to chat or hook up … “On a macro level, we have the opportunity as ‘the new normal’ to redefine what a healthy gay relationship …

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Rainier’s Paradise Opens Again; Snow-Play by This Weekend?
Some backcountry enthusiasts grumbled on Twitter and in Internet chat rooms, unhappy that a favorite winter stomping ground has been inaccessible during the holidays. “From the webcam at Paradise the parking area looks clean. I’ll bring my chainsaw if …

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