Smoking Prevalence in Ohio's LGBT Community Alarms Health Officials

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The vice president admired another man’s appearance while visiting Maine — and added to his administration’s growing catalog of hypermasculine body talk.

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Ace Rios has already started setting up his classroom before a 2-2 split vote by the school board meant he had to leave.

The new film shines a light on queer bodybuilding and the pressures on men to seek physical perfection.

These teen girls just wanted to participate, but the Trump administration decided to wage war on them rather than address other vital issues in this country.

The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

Adam Hlavaty and Henry Parra were remembered as a loving couple devoted to family, travel, and service.

A group of transgender men who call themselves the "SB244 compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.