Week of August 5
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts is slated to become the first cable news anchor to marry someone of the same sex. Roberts is expected to marry his partner Patrick Abner late this September.
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Out Australian Olympian Ji Wallace publicly announced he is HIV positive. Wallace is a trampolinist who won a silver at the 2000 Sydney Games and was inspired to make the public announcement after seeing an interview with US diver Greg Louganis about his battle with HIV.
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The D.C. Office of Human Rights has created a campaign to combat anti-transgender discrimination, the first government funded campaign to do so.
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Texas House of Representatives member Mary Gonzalez came out as pansexual to the Dallas Voice making her the first openly pansexual U.S. elected official.
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The New Yorker is reporting this week that Uganda held a gay pride weekend this summer. Read the whole story here.
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