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North Carolina GOP governor candidate Mark Robinson calls to 'kill' the left: 'Some folks need killing'

Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina running for governor, has called on conservatives to kill leftists.

Roy Cohn and Donald Trump: Mentor and Protégé

Trump learned much from the closeted gay communist-hunter and counsel to the rich and infamous.

Lindsey Graham Supports Trump's Racist Tweets, Meghan McCain Responds

After Donald Trump said several congresswomen of color should go back where they came from, Graham said they're communists.

Cuban Church Protests Support For Gay Rights

Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday protested the communist government's growing support of gay rights, including a daylong event raising awareness against homophobia and a law allowing sex-change operations. ''Respect for the homosexual person, yes,'' said an editorial in Palabra Nueva, the monthly magazine of the archdiocese of Havana. ''Promotion of homosexuality, no.''

Former Republican N.C. Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86

Former senator Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists, and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. ''It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men,'' said former North Carolina GOP representative Bill Cobey.

LGBTQ Activism Is the New Communism, Catholic Archbishop Says

Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Krakow calls the LGBTQ movement "totalitarian" and a "great threat to our freedom."

Cardinal Blames Bad Marketing for Church Seeming Antigay

Dolan's rhetoric during the debate over marriage equality in 2011 apparently wasn't 'anti-anybody.'

Poland's first-ever LGBTQ+ museum opens: 'For you and about you'

QueerMuzeum opened in Warsaw Friday, becoming the first LGBTQ+ museum in Poland, the first in post-communist Europe, and the fifth in the entire world.

'I Am Gay' Goes Viral After Chinese Site Weibo Censors LGBT Content

The website's decision to remove gay content is viewed as part of a larger move under President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to stifle ideas. 

Republicans Go Nuts Over 'Barbie' Film's Trans Inclusion and Alleged Communism

Far-right politicians and pundits don't like seeing trans actress Hari Nef in the movie, and Ted Cruz thinks an image of a map is Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

Cuban Government Backs Calls to Combat Homophobia

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness -- and high-ranking political alliances -- with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday. The meeting at a convention center in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists ever on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities, presided. ''This is a very important moment for us, the men and women of Cuba, because for the first time we can gather in this way and speak profoundly and with scientific basis about these topics,'' said Castro, director of Cuba's Center for Sexual Education.

Socialism Will Not Cure LGBTQ Oppression

There will be benefits if the government starts lifting up the most disadvantaged Americans, but queer equality won't be one of them.

Rustin Instilled Power To The People

Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his birth, a new book shares the correspondence Martin Luther King Jr.'s right-hand man, Bayard Rustin, known as the "lost prophet" of the Civil Rights Movement.

Archbishop Dolan Compares Marriage Equality Bill to Communist Regimes

He took to his website to compare the legislation to living under Communist regimes like China and North Korea.

Protesters Arrested After Cuba Cancels Conga Against Homophobia

The communist nation last week canceled the march amid growing regional tensions and months after nixing a marriage equality effort. 

Cuba Holds First Transgender Religious Ceremony

Friday marked the first time a trans pastor held a Holy Communion in Cuba, highlighting the modest progress of LGBT acceptance in the Communist-ruled country.

The Red Scare's Lesbian Informant

To bring down the Communist Party, FBI informant Angela Calomiris lied about her political allegiances and her sexuality. Read about her life in an excerpt from the new biography, Undercover Girl.

Election Puts Poland on New Path; Gay Activists Cautiously Optimistic

Poland is set to change course after a turbulent two years under a government whose old-fashioned Catholic values and strident approach to the European Union alienated many younger, urban voters. Opponents of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski turned out in strength on Sunday, swelling turnout to a post-communist record of 53.8% as they mobilized for a different vision of their country, as a nation looking to a promising future instead of a painful past and seeing European neighbors as a source of opportunity rather than a threat.