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Ryan Bridge was outed on-air on The AM Show. New Zealand news host Ryan Bridge has confirmed that he is gay, after his co-host Mark Richardson accidentally outed him live on-air. Bridge was filling in for regular host Duncan Garner at the time. Bridge and Richardson were discussing collector’s item with Amanda Gillies, when she asked Bridge if he collected anything. Newshub reports that Richardson said “ex-boyfriends” despite Bridge not being publicly open about his sexuality. After a long pause, Bridge responded by saying: “Yes, it’s true, I’m gay. There…

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The commissioner also said that being gay or trans was a “mental illness.” A human rights commissioner, Kenick El, at the Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission (VBHRC) has refused to give up his position after calling homosexuality an “abomination” in Facebook posts, as well as saying that being gay or trans was a “mental illness.” The chair of the VBHRC has also refused to remove him from his position. In response to a Fox News article about a trans woman who was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, Kenick wrote:…

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In 2014, Apple boss Tim Cook became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out as gay. It came three years after he took the mantle at Apple Inc following Steve Jobs’ resignation and the usually private Tim Cook informed the world through an editorial where he stated he was “proud to be gay”. Five years on and the business leader has reflected on his public coming out as he prepares to receive the Champion Award in Los Angeles from GLSEN; the leading advocacy organization for…

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