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Proud Papas. After trying to become parents for nearly a year, two gay King penguins at the Odense Zoo in Denmark adopted an abandoned egg. The two successfully incubated and hatched a chick last month. 

The Most Anti-Gay Piece Of Political Mail This Year

A mailer prepared by “The Committee To Save The Eric County Republican Party” in New York has set a mighty low bar. (Republican state Sen. Mark Grisanti voted for the state’s marriage equality bill in 2011 and faces a primary challenge from Kevin Stocker on Thursday.)

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A History of Soaps’ Gay Characters

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Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor dies | The Jerusalem Post

Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin.

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Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred Lewin, who had declined to separate himself from his family.

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Member Of The Westboro Baptist Church Cluelessly Protesting With A Glee Shirt On | Buzzfeed

This one of those all too important moments in hypocritical politics.