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Are e-Cigarettes Safer

Are e-cigarettes safer than cigarettes for smokers?

Banning Menthol Cigarettes Will Save LGBTQ+ Lives

For too long, Big Tobacco has preyed on LGBTQIA+ communities — and now, an FDA rule can help protect our health.

Two Men Stabbed Outside D.C. Gay Bar

They had stepped out to smoke a cigarette when they suffered an unprovoked stabbing attack.

WATCH: CDC Antismoking Campaign Targets LGBT Community

"Tips from Former Smokers" aims to educate LGBT smokers about the health cost of that cigarette.

Man Sentenced in Horrific Homophobic Attack on Gay Teen Who Was His Ex

Taylor Knight admitted to leading an attack that saw the teen doused with boiling water and pelted with cigarettes.

Study: Bisexual Women Are More Likely to Smoke Menthols

The study's publication comes a few months after the FDA started making plans to ban menthol cigarettes. 

More Queer People Are Vaping Amid Increasing Safety Concerns

Over 40 people have died recently from lung injuries linked to vaping and e-cigarettes.

10-Year-Old Boy Likely Beaten to Death Recently Came Out as Gay

Covered in cigarette burns, Anthony Avalos was found dead of a head injury last week in southern California.

Arrest Made in Murder of 10-Year-Old Gay Child

Anthony Avalos had recently come out as gay before he was covered in cigarette burns and beaten to death.

No smoke and mirrors

At the tender age of 22, Jeff Jordan is leading a company that tries to show gay men they can be fabulous and rebellious without cigarettes

The Special, Toxic Relationship Between Gays and Smoking

Many LGBT people, like our executive editor, used cigarettes to fit in and feel better. We're better than that, he writes.

Out With the Old, In With The New Smokes

Mark Twain said giving up smoking is easy -- "I know because I've done it thousands of times." Could he have used an e-cigarette?

Smoking Is Still an LGBT Health Scourge

While much of the nation gives up cigarettes, many LGBT people continue to puff away. Here's what one antitobacco professional is doing about it.

Civil rights, medical groups sue FDA over ‘almost unconscionable’ delay in banning menthol tobacco products

Over a 20-year period, a ban could lower health care costs among all adult smokers by about $1.62 billion, a recent study found.

18 of the most batsh*t things N.C. Republican governor candidate Mark Robinson has said

The man representing the North Carolina Republican party is a Holocaust denier who has often compared homosexuality to pedophilia.

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Is Vaping the Best Way to Stop LGBT Smoking?

Smoking is an LGBT health crisis. We should look at all options to bring down our unacceptable high rates of tobacco use, says the Log Cabin Republicans' Gregory T. Angelo.

How Tobacco Companies Harm the LGBTQ+ Community

Tobacco companies have long profited off LGBTQ+ and Black communities, and it's time for stricter regulation.

The Menthol Diaries: Taking back Pride from tobacco

Coming together to talk about Big Tobacco and the LGBTQIA+ community, employees of equalpride share their experiences with menthol tobacco and their journey to stop smoking.

The Menthol Diaries: Taking back Pride from tobacco

Coming together to talk about Big Tobacco and the LGBTQIA+ community, employees of equalpride share their experiences with menthol tobacco and their journey to stop smoking.

Paper Trail: Great American Couple

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Hollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream, Brett L. Abrams explores the relationship between Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, who led homosexual lives right under everyone's nose.

Op-ed: Yeah, Yeah, We Know, Smoking Is Bad

Smoking is terrible, yet we do it anyway. And it's detrimental to LGBT people in more ways than one.