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How Does It Feel to Be Young and Gay Divorced?
When we legally and symbolically bind ourselves together, we’re exchanging some of that fluidity for commitment. Once we marry, breaking up is hard — I mean, really hard — to do.
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Another Day in May
My grandparents and mother were crowded around my grandfather’s laptop; they had lit candles on a cake and sang happy birthday. I was about to make excuses to go back to studying when my grandmother mentioned the referendum. “You know, we’ll see your sister in a few weeks. She’s coming back for the vote.”
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La Boda Jota #3: What’s a Fat Tomboy Femme to Wear on Her Wedding Day?
The first question people asked me when I got engaged was what I was going to wear to the wedding. My impulse reaction was to blurt out, “how the fuck should I know?”
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In Their Own Words: LGBTQ Asia Responds to Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Taiwan’s ruling made me curious about how the news was being received by LGBTQ people across Asia. Did they too face cultural and institutional oppression against their gender and sexuality, or were their countries more accepting? Would the ruling have any impact on their livelihoods? Is Taiwan an inspiration for their leaders to consider marriage equality or LGBTQ rights overall, or will it not matter as much? I set out to find out by reaching out to LGBTQ activists in 42 Asian countries.
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Poly Pocket: Building Intentional Community and Relationship Anarchy
Here’s how a 33-year-old queer, polyamorous, white, trans woman living in Chicago who’s married and has a long-term girlfriend does poly.
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Poly Pocket: Making Relationships Up As We Go
Welcome to Poly Pocket, a new series showcasing polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous relationships. Here’s how a married kinky butch/femme couple does poly.
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Insufferable Jerk Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Tells Judges Not to Issue Gay Marriage Licenses
Roy Moore wants judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Obama gives executive orders on gun control, the officer who arrested Sandra Bland is indicted, and more.
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So, We’re Getting Married Now?
“Neither of us were comfy with the public spectacle of the thing, especially G. She didn’t like the thought of publicizing our private relationship. We also felt a bit blah about marriage itself, which can feel like an outdated institution. And there were practical worries, too — like how would we plan a big event, with so much on our plates?”
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Top 10 Gay Lady Weddings That Made Us Melt in 2015
It was a great year for gay marriage, especially if you were invited to one of these fabulous, totally sweet lesbian weddings.
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Kentucky Legislator Wants to Defeat Marriage Equality with the Power of “Matrimony”
A KY legislator thinks he’s cracked the code on how to stop marriage equality; how and why anti-LGBT sentiment is ramping up in Indonesia, the big abortion case the SCOTUS just heard, and more.
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Love & Canada: No Admittance Except On Wedding Business
“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”
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Daily Fix: Kentucky County Clerk Super-Dedicated To Refusing Same-Sex Marriage Licenses and Other News
A history of a lesbian-only “intentional community” in Arkansas, students at a Missouri high school protested a trans teen for using the girls’ bathrooms, Mansur Ball-Bey’s autopsy contradicts police testimony and more news.
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The Battle Between Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights is Happening Right Now
What the battle over ‘religious freedom’ looks like in magistrate offices and universities; Rahm Emanuel backpedals on police violence in Chicago; the Supreme Court hears arguments on affirmative action and more.
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Love & Canada: Life Finds A Way (To Get In The Way)
“I spent a few minutes wondering whether that means we should be married faster, i.e., the day after whenever I get there, and then I looked at the calendar and realized the timeline is as tight as it can be (and maybe too tight as it is) and I took a really deep breath and anyway it’s probably going to be fine. But it was one of those moments where it felt a little more like leaving Canada is giving something up.”
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Love & Canada: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”
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Daily Fix: California First State to Pay for Trans Inmate’s Surgery and More News Stories
Lesbian couples in Mississippi are challenging the state’s gay adoption ban, while Mexico found their gay adoption ban to be unconstitutional and Chelsea Manning is threatened with solitary confinement for “absurd” violations and more news.
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Love & Canada: My Lesbian Immigration Marriage Feelings, Part 1
The thing about my future immigration marriage is that it’s an immigration marriage but not an IMMIGRATION marriage. I still don’t want to know what save the dates are though.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Greenlights Marriage Equality, WE WON A MAJOR THING
In a historic decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.
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Love & Canada: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
“When I woke up Saturday I was going to get a lot of stuff done and I was just pretty focused on that and by mid Sunday afternoon I had cried for about 12 of my weekend waking hours.”
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Daily Fix: London Chanel, Black Trans Woman, Killed in Philly and Other News Stories
The way the media reported on the deadly Waco shootout, a trans woman was stabbed in Philly, there’s new restrictions on military style equipment for the local police and more news stories!