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THE ‘REAL HOUSEWIVES’ HAS A LONG HISTORY OF HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA. HERE IT IS. After the most recent seasons of Real Housewives of Orange County andReal Housewives of Dallas sparked co...

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THE FAR-RIGHT THINKS A VIOLENT ANTIFA OVERTHROW IS COMING NOV. 4, BUT THE TRUTH IS FAR STRANGER “The nightmare must end,” the full-page ad in the New York Times announced on Wednesday in bo...

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CANDACE TOWNS, TRANSGENDER WOMAN, FATALLY SHOT IN MACON, GEORGIA Candace Towns, 30, of Macon, Georgia, was first reported missing on Sunday. Two days later, on Tuesday, her body was found at th...

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MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE LEADER TO BE RENAMED IN OBAMA’S HONOR A small public elementary school in Mississippi announced it would make a big change in 2018 by changing its n...

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MEET 3 BLACK MEN WHO COULD CHANGE YOUR PERCEPTION OF SINGLE FATHERHOOD After Mason Parker finishes up his typical 10-hour shift as an assistant manager at a mattress store in Charlotte, North C...

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ONLINE DATING APPS LIKE TINDER ARE LINKED TO SHARP INCREASES IN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE, STUDY FINDS Online dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid have become the second-most common way straight coup...

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GREEN CARD HOLDERS CANNOT ENLIST IN THE ARMY RESERVE “FOR THE TIME BEING,” ARMY CONFIRMS An Army official said green card holders cannot enlist in the Army Reserve “for the time being,”...

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AN ARTIST IN MISSOURI IS CREATING DOLLS WITH VITILIGO AND ALBINISM TO CELEBRATE DIVERSE BEAUTY While the fashion industry is slowly opening up to models with various skin conditions — models ...

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THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT JUST REVERSED A POLICY PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TRANSGENDER WORKERS United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed the Justice Department to reverse ...

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PRETEEN DRAG SUPERSTAR DESMOND NAPOLES’ ADVICE ON BEING YOURSELF “To be beautiful. To be a little sassy. Not much. Beautiful. Friendly,” that’s how Desmond Napoles, a 10-year-old drag v...

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WHY THE IDEA THAT PERFUME IS FOR WOMEN AND COLOGNE IS FOR MEN IS AN ARCHAIC MINDSET Perfume is for women and cologne is for men — that, for many, is what we’ve been taught for most our live...

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TRUMP SAYS HE’S CONSIDERING LIFTING 1920 LAW KEEPING FOREIGN AID FROM REACHING PUERTO RICO Appearing before the press Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced he was considering ...

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BY PROMOTING “BUMPER-STICKER PATRIOTISM” TRUMP IS BUYING INTO WHAT THE NFL HAS SOLD FOR YEARS Sportscaster Bob Costas criticized President Donald Trump Monday for engaging in empty “flag-...

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TRAILBLAZING PLUS-SIZE MALE MODEL KELVIN DAVIS LANDS HIMSELF A CONTRACT WITH BRIDGE MODELS Kelvin Davis , one of the few successful plus-size male models in the United States, who’s been in ...

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ARRESTS, SIT-INS, SHOUTING — ACTIVISTS PLAN A WEEK OF NATIONWIDE PROTEST TO FIGHT GRAHAM-CASSIDY Since early March, when the first Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care ...

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IT WAS A RECORD SEASON FOR PLUS-SIZE AND TRANSGENDER MODELS AT NYFW Watching New York Fashion week this season, we had a certain inkling that we were seeing more models of color on runways than...

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TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS ARE UP SINCE THE HURRICANES. THEY’RE STILL HISTORICALLY BAD. President Donald Trump’s approval rating is on the upswing, now standing at 41% in the RealClearPolitics ...

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EXCLUSIVE: HILLARY CLINTON SAYS, “NO ONE, INCLUDING ME, IS SAYING WE WILL CONTEST THE ELECTION” Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she’s not going to contest the results of t...

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TRUMP SAYS US MAY HAVE “NO CHOICE BUT TO TOTALLY DESTROY NORTH KOREA” DURING UN SPEECH President Donald Trump will “totally destroy North Korea” if it threatens the United States or its...

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TRUMP HINTS THAT US WILL PULL OUT OF IRAN DEAL IN UN SPEECH  On Tuesday, the first president in generations to question whether America should be a world leader will offer his first address to...

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