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(WB) An LGBT activist in Puerto Rico regained access to his verified and personal Facebook pages on Wednesday after being banned for more than two months.

(WB) The government of Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program will now cover transition-related health care.

(WB) A gay man from Guatemala who has asked for asylum in the U.S. runs a project that helps LGBT asylum seekers in a Mexican border city.

(SS) Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.

(WB) National Coming Out Day, as it is called in the U.S., is celebrated on Oct. 11 as an event that promotes the visibility of LGBT people and calls attention to silence; one of the most deeply ingrained forms of homophobia, lesbophobia and transphobia.

(WB) “Please help me make this video viral! The army just killed my wife! Please help me spread it! … They killed Juliana … We don’t have weapons, we don’t have drugs, we don’t have anything, this man killed her. Look, we’re not wearing anything, they killed Juliana, that man shot her in the head.”