Results for: gay marriage
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Bring Love Back to Academia
“Why is a hug or a kiss seen as so much more loving than spending the time to give comments on a paper full of cherished ideas? Than sharing a drink to celebrate a quarter’s hard work? Than creating something together?”
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Team Pick: “Queer Kid Stuff” Brings Fun LGBTQ Videos to Preschool Children
Lindsay Amer is the cool Queer Big Sister you wish you had when you were a wee tot and she’s changing the landscape of kid-friendly content for ages 3-7.
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Daily Fix: Obama Calls for an End to Conversion Therapy and Other News Stories
Obama’s big statement on conversion therapy, Walter Scott’s murder, anti-abortion law in Kansas, discrimination against non-bisexual people alleged at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and more!
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Daily Fix: Republicans Didn’t Rise to the Occasion for Equal Pay Day and More News Stories
The state of conversion therapy, campus sexual assault protests at Columbia, Marylin Zuniga and get-well cards for Mumia, an anti-trans bathroom bill in Nevada, abortion laws in Oklahoma, and more!
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Daily Fix: All the New Research You Can Shake A Stick At and More News
Research on nationwide LGBT legal equality, bisexuals in the UK, racism in the university classroom, and religion. PLUS updates on your fave/least fave Republicans, police practices overhaul in Cleveland, new laws and more!
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There May Be Two Sides to Every Story; That Doesn’t Mean They’re Both Important
Wisconsin’s Janesville School District issued an apology for showing a pro-marriage-equality video without also showing an anti-equality rebuttal. When it comes to educating kids, though, that kind of “fairness” doesn’t help anyone.
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LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More
On the 45th anniversary of Stonewall and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, it is worth interrogating how we learn and know our histories — and the conditions that contribute to our learning environment.
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A Few Anti-Gay Apples Ruin the Bunch in Manitoba, Help Make the Case for Bill 18
In Winnipeg it proves difficult for restauranteurs and citizens to thrive when homophobia is the only thing being dished out. But hopefully Bill 18 can change that.
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Québec Government Wants to Know What Your Deal Is With Homosexuality
A new government campaign asks simple questions to win all the points.
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Utah School District Returns Controversial Lesbian Family Book To Shelves, We Win A Thing
Davis County, UT school board realizes that maybe letting books help teach students’ tolerance about same-sex families is actually an awesome idea.
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Sir James Dyson Likes Vacuums, Dislikes French Lesbian Poetry
“Imagine how wonderful it would be to take a class on French lesbian poetry in university, but wait, who’s that British man in a suit, aspirating your French lesbian poetry textbooks into his bag-free vacuum cleaner?”
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Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As “Religious Freedom”
To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don’t reflect their “values.” But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it’s not so simple.
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Schooled: Remember That Gay Teacher You Had?
Ever wonder what that teacher was thinking? How they handled being out at work? Or did you wish they were more out and outspoken? Here are three real-life queer teachers to give you a peek inside their teacher-brains!
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Bradlee Dean’s Anti-Gay Metal Band Rocks Iowa School to Everyone’s Horror and Dismay
“In the aftermath of the apparently horrific “performance,” the school is now scrambling to not only recover the money paid to the Junkyard Prophets but provide counseling to the students who attended it.”
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Louisiana Lawmaker Weirdly Obsessed with Making University Drop LGBT Studies Program
A Louisiana lawmaker wants to a local university to drop its new minor in LGBT studies because he claims the program is political; he also seems to have no awareness that it is also political to discourage the program.
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Effort to Repeal California Gay History in Schools Officially Fails
The people trying to repeal SB 48, California’s gay history bill, aren’t going to be able to pull it off.
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A Tale of Two Plans for Sex Ed in Alabama
‘Not an acceptable lifestyle,’” Todd said. “What the heck does that mean? It’s like they’re trying to say we shouldn’t exist.”
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Why Gay History Could Make History In California
Schoolkids in California are one step away from having gay role models included in their standard social science curriculum.
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Also. Also. Also: All The Gay Teachers, Marines, Anchors, Cheerleaders, Grad Students, Vandals, Etc.
What’s it like to be a gay teacher these days? Also: vandals on both sides of the cause, a lesbian couple arrested after being denied marriage license, ira glass, amy poehler, a song about pizza, homophobic teachers and so much more!
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Bad Education: Why Some Gay People Can’t Be University Professors
“I think that anybody that adheres to a lifestyle outside of what the biblical mandate is would not be allowed to continue here.”