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Painting By Gay Artist Francis Bacon Nets Record $142 Million: Today In Gay

Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych by the late queer artist, has broken the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. An anonymous collector cut a check for $142.4 million at Christie's New York yesterday, following a fierce bidding war.

Only expected to go for around $80 million, the painting—a trio of portraits of Freud's friend and fellow artist—outdid Edvard Munch’s The Scream, which fetched nearly $120 million in 2012.


"I am opposed to discrimination of any kind, in the workplace and any place else. But I think this legislation that I’ve dealt with as chairman of The Education & The Workforce Committee…is unnecessary and would provide a basis for frivolous lawsuits.

People are already protected in the workplace. I’m opposed to continuing this. Listen, I understand people have differing opinions on this issue, and I respect those opinions. But as someone who’s worked in the employment law area for all my years in the State House and all my years here, I see no basis or no need for this legislation."

We're already protected? Well, maybe we are surprised!


The newly passed School Success and Opportunity Act allows students to choose activities and facilities and activities based on their gender identity and not their birth gender. Crowing about bathroom chaos, Privacy For All Students gathered more than 600,000 signatures to put the measure up for a referendum.

”Protecting this law is our number one priority,” says Equality California director John O'Connor, “and we will put everything we’ve got into it.”


Speaking of protecting LGBT youth, England is preparing to debate a ban on gay-conversion therapy.  Members of Parliament will take on the issue November 20,  after Labour MP Geraint Davies proposed a ban, calling reparative therapy, proposed a bill aimed  an “awful practice”.


xavier bettelXavier Bettel has been named the first openly gay prime minister of the small European nation of Luxembourg. Bettel, the current mayor of Luxembourg City, will form a coalition government with the Greens and Socialist Workers’ Parties. Adding another layer of awesomeness is the fact that Bettel's vice-prime minister, Etienne Schneider, is also openly gay.

Bettel, 40, has said marriage equality is a major goal for his Administration: “Gay weddings with be done forthwith. At the moment in Luxembourg, we have to go through the situation of weddings, religion and divorce laws. But I don’t think it’ll be in the next five years – it’ll be next year.”

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