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Australia: Same-sex marriage survey damaging to LGBTI people's mental health, research finds

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Researchers carried out an online survey during the marriage-law vote with over 1,300 respondents. Those who came across negative media messages more than once a day had distress levels 58 per cent higher than those exposed once a week. Same-sex-attracted people who believed those close to them voted yes reported less-severe symptoms

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US: Ellen Page calls out powerful bigots on The Late Show

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On Thursday’s Late Show to promote her new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, an adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Dark Horse Comics series about a family of grown-up child superheroes, Ellen Page, instead, used her network airtime to fight some real-world evils.

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US: After ‘Empire’ actor’s alleged assault, his upset fans are coming to the aid of NC college

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The campaign to save North Carolina’s Bennett College has drawn some high-profile supporters, including Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor who this week reported he was attacked in Chicago by two masked men who uttered racial and homophobic slurs.