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The following statement may be attributed to a spokesperson for The Walt Disney Company: “Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that. We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and...

A University of Michigan class that earlier prompted state lawmakers to consider a 10 percent budget penalty for the school and is taught by a homosexual professor openly endorsing the "uncompromising political militancy" of "lesbian and gay studies" is returning. The class at the tax-funded University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is called "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," and is taught by David Halperin. It surfaced in 2000, returned the following year and again a couple years later. Now university officials have confirmed it is returning, and Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan,...

Growing up in Qualicum Beach, a town of 5,000 on Vancouver Island, Tyler Hoffman got hooked on baseball at 5 and was umpiring games by age 12. After graduating from "umpire boot camp," the Academy of Professional Umpiring in Florida, Hoffman launched his pro career in the minor leagues. Working games across the United States 200 days a year, he ate, worked, played, lived and breathed baseball — truly "one of the boys." But Hoffman, now 29, kept a crucial part of himself out of the locker room. "You just learn to bottle it up and deny that you're gay...