19-year-old Kristene Chapa is recovering (without health insurance) from the shooting that killed her 18-year-old girlfriend. Also, new information from her family and the Portland Police Department.
Let’s celebrate Canada Day with all the other Canadians!
This week on NSFW Sunday: dating yourself, couch surfing, and tastes and sex. I know, sex! Crazy.
This week, marriage equality is “in the works,” people are coming out as stoners / childbearers / lesbians, and the people who made your calculators are excited for pride. And it’s almost July 4!
Recaps of season three episodes one and two are here! Rejoice!
Carolyn’s Team Pick: “I came out into a scene that really valourized masculinity and so I felt like in order to be recognized as a queer person I had to cut my hair short and dress in this particular way.”
Things we wrote and the best of what you clever dolphins said.
This week you’re helping out with a variety of mom-related issues, girlfriend feelings, touchy feely straight girls, coming out as trans* and a possible stone butch, among other things. Maybe our best FS Friday ever.
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and married to Leslie Chambers with two adopted children, now says his group will no longer operate around claims of being able to “cure” anyone.
This week’s topics include bipolar disorder, alcoholism, child abuse, immigration, poverty, deadly amusement park rides and working at the apple store!
Samira Ghorbani Danesh faces imprisonment and torture if German courts don’t reverse a recent decision.
“I’m not sorry we can now enter the military, and I’m not sorry that we can now marry. But frankly I come from a moment in time, and a radical vision in time, that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”
You know what’s better than a book on tape? A book in a song.
Did I make this mostly as an excuse to make a sideways Pride flag on my counter? (Spoiler alert: yes.)
“This is the kind of movie that needs to be made more often. It’s like Tangled on feminist steroids.”
The Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act and its mandate that Americans carry health insurance or else face a tax is constitutional.
“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”
I believed deeply, at one point, that words could do a majority of the communicating I would need to do in my life. I was wrong.
Suspiciously enough, “record” is not on the list.
What happens if you’re gay married but don’t want to be anymore? It might be incredibly difficult.