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Tom Bosworth Proposes to His Boyfriend at Rio Olympics

British race walker Tom Bosworth proposed to boyfriend Harry Dineley Monday on the beaches of Copacabana. The world-record holder posted Dineley’s response on Instagram.

He said yes!

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Target To Install Gender-Neutral Bathrooms In All Of Its Stores

Target drew praise from LGBT rights advocates in April when it announced it would allow customers to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. The new single-stall bathrooms, which are by definition gender-neutral, seem meant to assuage the concerns of customers uncomfortable with this policy and will provide a third option for all customers.

But Boylan confirmed that Target continues to welcome transgender individuals to use a bathroom of their choosing.

As a result, the new move can be seen as a deft effort to calm critics without fundamentally altering its policy. In fact, it may even be seen as an expansion of the policy, given that customers who identify as genderqueer may feel most comfortable in a bathroom that allows them to eschew identification with either gender.

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In historic step, Belize court scraps law targeting gay and bisexual men

A law in Belize that disproportionately affects gay men was today ruled unconstitutional by the country’s Supreme Court after a three-year wait for the judgment.

Section 53 of Belize’s Criminal Code, an old British colonial law, banned ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’ and thereby made relationships between adult men in private illegal in Belize. Today, the provision has been ruled ‘unlawful’ to the extent that it can be applied to same-sex activity.

“With this ruling, Belize provides a ray of hope and a path forward for the global LGBT community, especially throughout the Caribbean,” said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis. “This is an important step forward that we hope will continue to build momentum and advance acceptance in 76 countries around the globe that criminalize LGBT people. Our communities – no matter where they live – deserve their identities to be affirmed and their lives protected from violence, hate, and discrimination – especially from their governments.”

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Olympic Volunteer Proposes to Her Brazilian Rugby Player Girlfriend, Everyone Cries

Brazilian women’s rugby player Isadora Cerullo may not have won the Olympics, but she still broke a record: She’s the first Olympian to be proposed to during the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

On top of which, it came from another woman — girlfriend Marjorie Enya, one of the stadium’s managers, who asked for Cerullo’s hand in marriage Monday night.

#LoveWins

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FDA Reconsiders Gay Blood Ban

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Help this LGBTQ photo book be published after 15 years in the making

Kings & Queens in Their Castles features 160 subjects at their homes across the country. The photo book, created by photographer Tom Atwood, also includes around 60 celebrities, like actor George Takei, cartoonist of Fun Home Alison Bechdel and television personality Carson Kressley.

Find out more information about how you can help support the book’s publication here.

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Dustin Lance Black Will Dedicate Memorial To America's First LGBT Rights Demonstration

The award-winning Milk screenwriter will present a Philadelphia Conference Historic Marker at the Arch Street Meeting House, the site where 300 LGBT activists gathered to plan the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

The activists gathered at the house a few short months after the assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, a leading activist in the fight for LGBT equality.

There, they strategized and put into motion the steps that would lead to the groundbreaking 100,000-person demonstration in D.C., which many regard as a turning point in the LGBT civil rights movement.

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23 Reminders That Representation Really Is Important

3. The impact of representation starts young – and it can ripple out through the rest of our lives.

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Here they are, the ‘enemies of equality’ for LGBT Americans

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans know in their bones there is a “vast right-wing conspiracy” out to deny them their humanity and dignity. A conservative cabal actively working the levers of power to block their rights. Well, now we have the evidence that one actually exists.

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GLAAD celebrates lift of transgender military ban

“As of today transgender service members can serve their country without fear of losing their jobs or their benefits. This is an important step toward acknowledging that transgender people exist in all walks of life - in every profession, neighborhood, and school - and that discriminating against us is not an American value. The next step is to ensure that when service members leave the military, they can return home to a country that protects them from discrimination at their next job, or when renting an apartment, going to college, or simply using the bathroom at a restaurant. But today we celebrate another step toward full acceptance of transgender people and recognize the thousands of trans people who have served our country for decades,” said Nick Adams, the director of GLAAD’s Transgender Media program.

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