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US: Pansexual college student fundraises tuition after being cut off by family

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A pansexual student at the University of Pittsburgh is crowdfunding her tuition expenses after being cut off by her family because of her sexual orientation.

Kate Koenig told HuffPost Live that she was cut off by her family after they found her online blog where she stated she was pansexual and dating a transgender man.

She says her first worry after being cut off was how she was going to pay for school. On her GoFundMe page, Koenig says she has search for loans without co-signers, but could not find one.

Koenig, who plans to study English, German, and history, plans to spend the upcoming fall semester at a community college due to her current inability to cover tuition at the University of Pittsburgh.

She is currently trying to raise $15,000 (

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Anti-gay activist: Gays just want a ‘cheap orgasm’ and can’t handle being ‘real men’

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LaBarbera is the founder and president of the anti-gay ‘Americans For Truth About Homosexuality’. Get the latest LGBT headlines in your inbox with our free daily newsletter! Join Topics HomophobiaAnti-gaypresident obamaPeter LaBarberaAmericans for Truth About HomosexualityAFTAHJames David Manning Share on WhatsApp 14 reader comments

An American anti-gay activist has taken to the airwaves to say that men who have sex with men are just looking for a

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Pastor who preaches that ‘being gay is a choice’ opens church in Kent

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A controversial church movement which denounces homosexuality as a “sinful impulse” has opened in Sevenoaks, Kent.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, which was founded in Nigeria in 1952, helds its first service in Sevenoaks’ Town Council offices on Sunday, led by pastor Tinuola Adeyemi.

The 47-year-old pastor, who described the church as “happy-clappy” and who is adamant that being gay is “a choice”, said she was surprised at the frosty reception she got when giving out promotional leaflets, the Sevenoaks Chronicle reports.

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US: Veteran files suit challenging Idaho law preventing her from being buried with her wife

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Madelynn Taylor filed a lawsuit to be granted the right to be buried with her late wife (Image: Boise Weekly) Get the latest LGBT headlines in your inbox with our free daily newsletter! Join Share on WhatsApp 3 reader comments

An Idaho woman filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a state law that prohibits her from being buried in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery with her late wife.

Madelynn Taylor, a 74-year-old Navy veteran, married her late wife Jean Mixner in 2008 in California. In 2013, Taylor attempted to make advanced arrangements to have her remains placed with Mixner’s at the cemetary, a right that is given to other military veterans and their spouses.

Idaho does not recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages, leading cemetery employees to deny Taylor’s request to be buried with her spouse.

The lawsuit, filed on Taylor’s behalf by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and attorneys Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham, argues that Idaho state law is violating the United States constitutional guarantee of equal protection and due process by not recognizing marriages that have occurred in other states.

In a National Center for Lesbian Rights press release, Taylor said:

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Julie Bindel: Being gay is a choice, I chose to live my life as a lesbian

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Feminist writer Julie Bindel has claimed that homosexuality is a choice.

She told the Independent: “I think the opposite of having an innate, biological explanation

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Putin allies met David Cameron at Tory summer party while anti-gay law was being passed

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Putin allies and pro-Russian lobbyists attended a Tory summer party while Russia was in the process of passing its notorious anti-gay law, it has been revealed.

According to the Guardian, a number of Russian politicians attended the party on June 24 last year, two weeks after the Russian parliament unanimously voted in favour of the law and one week before Putin signed it into law.

David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson were among the leading Conservative politicians in attendance.

Russian MP Vasily Shestakov, who voted for the anti-gay law, was in attendance at the event, according to a leaked seating plan.

Shestakov – who has been tasked with improving Russia’s reputation in the UK – shook hands with David Cameron at the event.

A member of the party told the newspaper that the handshake was to “make the wheels go round”.

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