Results for: garden state
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New Jersey School District Accommodates Trans Teen After Their Initial Awfulness
After insisting Rachel would have to attend school “as a boy,” Middletown Township Public Schools is now working to accommodate the middle schooler, who began transitioning this summer.
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New Jersey Ruling Calls for Legalizing Gay Marriage, Chris Christie Plans to Appeal Like A Total Jerk
The governor’s office plans to appeal the ruling, but activists in the state are already celebrating.
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We Get to Keep a Thing We Won! New Jersey Will Start Marrying Same-Sex Couples On Monday
Couples across the state prepare to marry after the state’s highest court orders same-sex ruling must stand.
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NJ’s Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Is Great, Not Indicative of Christie’s Conversion to Decency
Perhaps Christie’s evolution could help push Republicans into being less bigoted and terrible to queers. But that, of course, might be pie in the sky.
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Chris Christie and His Nonsensical Anti-Gay Arguments Are An Embarrassment to New Jersey
It has become increasingly difficult to defend my home state with our governor saying dumb things left and right, like his brief on marriage equality. Are you ready for a headdesk the size of a Jersey hairdo?
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Pro-Gay AND Pro-Immigration? You’re Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Sane people want the new immigration bill to help binational gay couples. People in power insist that will ruin everything for everyone else. What’s a politically savvy queer to do?
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Kirk Cameron Continues to Be Total Anti-Gay Jerk
Kirk Cameron is being a huge jerk again, this time to gay bullied teenagers. I’m so surprised. Can you hear the surprise in my voice?
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Gay Marriage Wins: In Which We Celebrate and Also Push Forward
“For even one vote to come out in favor of gay marriage only three years later would have been historic; the fact that all four states did so is nothing short of incredible.”
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New Jersey Democrats Have High Hopes for Second Try on Gay Marriage
New Jersey Democrats are hoping that 2011 is the year their state sees marriage equality.
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Same-Sex Marriage Is Taking the Northeast By Storm
The Catholic Bishop in Brooklyn is talking crazy about it, New Jerseyans are suing for it, Rhode Island will take civil unions instead of it (for now), Obama won’t “make news on it” and a city clerk upstate refuses to do her job and sign certificates of it.
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Roommate Indicted For Hate Crime for Acts Leading to Gay Student Tyler Clementi’s Suicide
Dharun Ravi, the roommate of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who committed suicide last September, has been indicted on 15 counts and if convicted, will serve 5-10 years.
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DADT: Dan Choi Back on Active Duty, Lissa Young Talks to AS, Black Women Disproportionately Affected
It’s DADT News, and we’ve got good news and bad news. Dan Choi has been called back to active duty! Yes, really! Autostraddle catches up with DADT discharge Lissa Young for her reaction to last week’s hearing (“exhilarating and infuriating.”) Study shows black women disproportionately discharged under DADT (and the affects of all anti-gay laws hit the black community harder). Also; Iowans and New Jersey on gay marriage actions/reactions, Rhode Island’s gay marriage bill and more on Judge Walker.
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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial Closing Arguments Recap: This Time It’s Personal
Are you ready to get this Prop 8 thing taken care of once and for all? SO ARE WE. We recap today’s closing arguments on the Prop 8 trial on gay marriage in California, with characteristic Autostraddle style and class.