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Cycling annually to reduce stigma and raise awareness about HIV & AIDS in South Africa and globally

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09/27/2026

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Jacob Tierney, the man behind the gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry, got HIV at 34, and the illnesses that followed left him, in his words, "basically dying all the time."

"It was really, really bad," the director, 47 today, said on the Good Morning, Sodomites! podcast in 2022. He got very sick and lost a lot of weight. Then Type 1 diabetes went undiagnosed for months until his HIV doctor caught it - two weeks, he said, from complete kidney failure.

His show is the opposite kind of story, on purpose. Nobody ends up back with a miserable wife. Nobody is punished for loving a man. When a corporate note called one s*x scene too quick, his reaction was that it ran six and a half minutes.

Q***r stories, he has said, keep going back to tragedy. He wanted a gay show that was s*xy, h*rny and fun - and he got to make it.

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09/24/2026

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While in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten visited the birthplace of the LGBTQ rights movement. Jetten is the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister.

09/22/2026

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07/20/2026

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German judoka Timo Cavelius has become a trailblazer in the world of sport, not just for his competitive achievements but for his visibility as an openly gay athlete. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he made history as the first out gay male judoka to compete at the Games, breaking barriers in a sport and global event where openly q***r male representation has been scarce.

Cavelius came out to his parents and teammates in 2015, and described his decision as a “conscious decision… because the hiding had to stop.” He later wrote that the pressure of elite competition, school exams, and keeping his true self hidden had become too much, and he knew he needed to live authentically.

His teammates accepted him unequivocally, and Cavelius has embraced his role not only as an elite athlete but as a role model showing that LGBTQ+ athletes can compete at the highest levels without hiding who they are.

Sometimes making history isn’t just about medals.

Sometimes it’s about courage, visibility, and inspiring others to live openly. 🌈

07/02/2026
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06/25/2026

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Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying and his husband Mark Hoying have announced the arrival of their baby girl.

Speaking to PEOPLE, Scott revealed that the couple’s daughter had arrived via surrogate on Wednesday, 3 June and that they have named her Birdie James.

"It really was beautiful. It was this overwhelming flashback of all these memories growing up and being like, 'Am I going to find love? Is gay marriage going to be legal? Am I going to be able to have a kid?'” he said.

He continued to say that the process of having a child with his husband has taken four or five years. “It's been a long time coming and just looking at her, I started crying because it was just such a beautiful thing that I feel really, really lucky,” he said.

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