New app bridges gap between LGBT and straight communities

LOS ANGELES – GALPAL is the new friendship app that connects gay men, straight women and anyone seeking lasting relationships by matching individuals with specific interests and hobbies. Centered on building real, meaningful, supportive relationships, GALPAL is not for hookups or cringe worthy first dates. Making its official debut today, GALPAL is the first app…

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Watch: Straight men get pranked in gay rap video

https://youtu.be/bSpixO341_c Just how accepted is homosexuality in black America? F-Comedy, a digital extension of the Fusion cable network and comedian Ben Bizuneh decided to find out. In an interesting social experiment, Bizuneh created a fictional hood rapper named Boss Quoss (who’s gay on the down-low), recorded a song for him titled “Strokin,” and decided to…

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Gay youth bullied more than straight youth, Boston Children’s Hospital study reports

BOSTON — A new study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine and led by Mark Schuster, MD, PhD, chief of General Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, shows that sexual minority youth (youth who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual) are more likely to be bullied and victimized than their peers. “What really stands…

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Same-sex attracted Mormons three times as likely to divorce from straight wives

At first blush, an article from the Salt Lake Tribune by Peggy Fletcher Stack reads like something you might find on TheOnion.com: Gay men – or in Mormon parlance ‘same-sex attracted’ – who marry heterosexual  woman are two-to-three times more likely than opposite couples to call it quits. It’s tempting to shrug it off with…

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‘Misterbnb’ offers a community alternative to ‘Airbnb’ for the gay traveler

Almost six years ago, two of the three Airbnb founders, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, found themselves unable to pay their rent on a pricey San Francisco loft. But instead of downsizing, they cleared out their living room, threw down a few air mattresses and provided home-cooked breakfasts to the various travelers looking for a…

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