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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Let’s Celebrate Laverne Cox’s Book Deal and Read These 6 Memoirs By Trans Women Of Color
Not content with producing a documentary, greeting CeCe McDonald outside of prison and shutting it down on daytime TV, Laverne Cox added signing a book deal to her list of accomplishments in the first half of the first month of 2014.
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Orson Scott Card Should Consider Re-Reading “Ender’s Game”
“What if you’d like to let your loyalties walk some middle tightrope, where you can keep the good stuff about this book you loved while also turning your back on its creator? What’s the best way to hate the player and love the Game?”
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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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Michele Smith Makes History: A Love Letter to Title IX and Women in Sports
Ladies, you are now welcome in the wide-world of baseball analysis, at least according to one broadcasting booth. And if you are as awesome as Michele Smith.
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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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Searching For A F*ck To Give About Kirk Cameron’s Anti-Gay Comments
GLAAD wants you to tell Growing Pains’ Kirk Cameron that he’s not your teen idol anymore after his super gross anti-gay comments on CNN.
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6 Reasons You’ll Want to See “Tanner Hall” Despite Its Abysmal Reviews
Portia’s ex-girlfriend and Dianne von Furstenberg’s daughter made a movie about troubled in boarding school starring the girl with the dragon tattoo and there’s a lesbian character. How can you not go see it?
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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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Gay Teens Continue Getting Bullied, Committing Suicide: Seth Walsh, 13 and Tyler Clementi, 18, September’s Latest Victims
Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.
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Heard It On TV: AT&T and Nick Drake
AT&T’s latest commercial features “From The Morning” by English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Jess G.’s first encountered his music a decade ago on Young Americans, a TV series starring then-unknown actress Kate Moennig. How did you first discover Nick Drake?
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Valedictorian Calls Out U.S. School System, Brainwashed Students, Herself
Erica Goldson, valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School, used her graduation speech to deconstruct the institution rewarding her. Must read & process: “Now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker.”
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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.