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Four Black Queer Writers in Conversation About Jussie Smollett and Holding Up Space for Each Other
This piece was co-written by Natalie, Reneice, Alexis, and Carmen. We’re four of the black members of The Speakeasy, Autostraddle’s collective for its writers of color.
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Oh For F*ck’s Sake: Kansas Legislator Dick Jones Claims Gay People are a “Third Sex”
This jerk Dick Jones in Kansas, last night’s GOP town hall, a lesbian high schooler wins the right to wear a gay t-shirt to school, women making moves in state and federal government, and more!
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Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too
In Donald Trump’s world, women without “normative” gender presentations are fat slobs and “traditionally attractive” women are bimbos and idiots.
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Trail Life USA Tries to Blaze A New Trail For Anti-Gay Scouting
Luckily there are other scouting alternatives for your kids!
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Priest Who Ruined Lesbian’s Mother’s Funeral Placed On “Administrative Leave”
The priest who denied Barbara Johnson communion at her mother’s funeral and walked out during her eulogy is suspended — but higher-ups claim it’s got nothing to do with that whole lez thing.
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Russia’s Gay Revolution, As Seen by An American Abroad
“Friends at home are asking me what’s going on with all the protests… I never know what to say.”
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Penn State Scandal: Everybody’s Talking About How Nobody’s Talking About Homosexuality
One side blames homophobia for the cover-up and reluctance to intervene, the other side blames anti-homophobia for the media’s apparent reluctance to equate homosexuality with pedophilia!
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Artists, Politics and the Gays
What is the role of artists in the fight for queer equality — if they have one?
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Sorry, Gay Montanans, Your Secret Evil Recruitment Plan Is Blown
Republican Senator Ken Peterson has a lot of really special feelings about gay people.
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Remember Bradley Manning? Wikileaks’ Forgotten Gay “Unparalleled Hero” Made to Sleep Naked in Jail
This is what it looks like to get all of the backlash and none of the glory for exposing the American government’s dirty laundry.
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Everything You Need to Know About Gay Marriage Today
In today’s edition of “I am gay and want to do things anyway,” gays are still trying to legally be in love, around the world, and state rights are still proving to be ineffective ways to govern the love lives of American gay people (ahem).
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Is Oklahoma’s Del City High School Encouraging Lesbian Students to Drop Out? [UPDATED]
Forget prom — lesbians at Del City High School are being told they shouldn’t even bother showing up to graduation.
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Friends of Lesbian Teen Gave Her Six Months to Go Straight Before Attacking Her
New information in the Cheyenne Williams case (maybe), and shocking violence in Edmonton. Gay and bisexual politicians abound, and the petition on Ref. 71 is finally going to court. Also, a defense of the Boy Scouts, and an investigation of the gay dollar.
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Teens Attempt Throwing Lesbian Classmate Off Cliff on Day of Silence
Some classmates tried to push their lesbian friend off a cliff because she’s gay; but police are saying this attempted murder, committed on the day of silence, could just be a “prank gone awry.” It looks like DADT won’t be repealed in 2010, and Dan Choi’s civil disobedience got little to no mainstream news coverage. Plus, it’s harder for LGBT victims of violent crimes, Jon Stewart’s Gaywatch, and the Tories in the UK are courting gay voters.
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‘Prop 8 Campaigners Are Sacrificing Children to Their Own Homophobia.’
Rob Tisiani explains it all for you and how Yes on 8 prefers to spread false homophobic messages rather than actually combat the real issues surrounding child sexual abuse — it’s a must-see. Also WSJ takes Obama to task on DADT and looks ahead towards our first hearing on the issue since it was enacted in 1993, and Jon Stewart does Keith Olberman.
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Thanks Anti-Equality Conservative A**hats, But John Shelby Spong & the Gays Have Had Enough of You Now.
Have we said all there is to say to people who passionately oppose full & equal rights for gays and lesbians?
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Evangelicals, Rapists, Tramps & Thieves: Why Anti-Gay Leaders Love to Sin, Are the Sinners
Evangelical Christians, televangelists and other conservative religious leaders have been convicted of rape, sexual misconduct, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, rape as an accomplice, polygamy, infidelity, solicitation of male and female prostitutes, incest, sexual conduct with minors, taking indecent liberties with young boys and … stealing a sex toy from a woman’s home. Yet the ball’s still in their court. Why is that?