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Snapchat partners with PinkNews to serve LGBT content on platform

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The UK-based website PinkNews is Snapchat’s “ first LGBT partner ,” meaning the pro-gay news site’s channel will appear in the app’s “Discover” section, accessible to children and teens alongside outlets like Cosmopolitan. PinkNews is “now read by more people than any other LGBT+ media in the US or the UK,” it says. Snapchat, which allows users sending photos and videos that disappear after being opened and post to their “story” photos and videos that are visible to friends for 24 hours, has become an increasingly popular social media platform for millennials and the younger “Generation Z.” The addition of PinkNews will not be much of a significant change, as the Discover section already features content from a number of media outlets, most of which lean considerably left and often are sexually explicit. On Thursday, a story from PinkNews available on Snapchat was about the 10-year-old drag queen “Desmond is Amazing.” The National Center for Sexual Exploitation put Snapchat on its

UK’s right-leaning party doubles down on opposition to gay ‘marriage’ after appearing to backtrack

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LONDON , March 19, 2014  – The leader of the UK ’s right-leaning party denied making comments attributed to him in an article by a homosexualist news agency in which he allegedly said his party would not campaign to overturn same-sex “marriage” in the general election next year. According to  PinkNews , Nigel Farage , head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) , also said his party would remove the legal status of Christian weddings, requiring believers to attend both a religious and civil ceremony. UKIP leader Nigel Farage But in a statement posted to  UKIP’s website  Wednesday, Farage denies making the remarks. “The statement attributed to me yesterday was not made by me and not approved by me. It was a draft by a staff member that should never have been sent out,” he explained. The remarks attributed to Farage by the  PinkNews  article had shocked many because UKIP campaigned strongly against same-sex “marriage” and won support on the issue. In his statement Wednesday