Results for: queer parenting
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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.”
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Transgender People, Transitioning and Those Darn Standards of Care
“A disorder is a description of something with which a person might struggle, not a description of the person or the person’s identity.”
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More Visible Than Purple: LGBT Kids and the Road to Safer Schools
I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”
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Elmhurst College Hopes To Be Enriched By Gay Students, Give Them Money
Elmhurst College in Illinois has become the first school to ask (optionally) about your sexual orientation on their admissions application. How does that make you feel?
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You Need Help: Lesbian Back-To-School Edition
So you’re going to your first semester at college! Do you have to come out to your roommate?
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How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?
Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.
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100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds
This weekend, one third of Michigan Law’s 2011 class walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest an anti-gay graduation speaker. Lucky for us, Sarah was there for the whole thing.
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Postcards from Uganda: An American Lesbian Abroad
The incredibly true story of my first two months in Kampala, Uganda, where I really can’t tell anyone that I’m gay.
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Science For A Brighter Future: Research On Bullying and Gay Teen Suicide
We all know that bullies and homophobes, from the locker room to the Senate, are part of why gay and lesbian teens (and adults) have such ridiculously high rates of suicide. But when a panel of 26 leading researchers back it up, we may finally be on the way to changing things.
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The PP & Me: Why We All Need Planned Parenthood
I’ve been going to Planned Parenthood for thirteen years, which is probably my longest relationship with anything, ever. I’m not ready to give that up — and you shouldn’t be, either.
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Zero Percent Of Kids With Lesbian Parents Report Abuse, Gay Moms FTW
Zero percent of teens with lesbian parents report instances of abuse; probably this means everyone should have two moms, like Riese. Also: You can get married over Skype now, Dan Choi is eloquent on Veterans/Remembrance Day, and meeting Autostraddlers and making friends will make you happy.
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Lily’s College Lesbianage #10: Words and Music Videos
Lily is back from an extremely long bout of procrastination to talk about being gay at the doctors, her attempt to become a perfect Barnard woman, and her love of Jennifer Lopez.
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Gay-Friendly Universities That Are Actually Friendly to Lesbians
We think that list of gay-friendly colleges is a little heavy on the bromance and a little light on the lezbromance so we’re going to fix that for you.
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Will Healthcare Reform Lure College Grads Back to The Parental Units?
Some are ‘worried’ that extending family health care under Obama’s plan to 26 year-olds will encourage ‘slackers,’ many more find this safety net ‘awesome.’ New provisions will make it harder to kick gays out of the army ’cause of DADT (like your ex-girlfriend can’t do it for revenge, etc.) while they decide what the f to do long term. Also; the redacted memo, web 3.0, prom in New Orleans? & marijuana legalization on the ballot.
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Health Care Reform Passes: What’s Next, Gaymos? (Is Rush Limbaugh Moving to Costa Rica?)
Health care reform passes — what do gays & ladies think of it? Constance goes to prom court and her school plans a private prom at a furniture mart and doesn’t invite her. Also; tea partiers protesting in DC manage to be horrifyingly disrespectful to everyone ever, gay sex might be decriminalized in Delhi, and reports on homophobic professors, companies, and bed&breakfasts.
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Live-Blogging Dinah Shore Weekend Part IV: Sunday, Bloody Sunday
More up-to-the-minute Dinah debauchery updated constantly! We ran out of room or something in the old post and had to start a new one!
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Sarah Warn Leaves Lesbian Website AfterEllen, Karman Kregloe Takes Over as Editor-in-Chief
After nearly seven years of building, developing and leading number-one lesbian website AfterEllen.com, Sarah Warn is stepping down as editor-in-chief.
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NYC Pride Weekend 2009: The Recap – If It’s Good For You Then It’s Good For Me
This is the true story of seven team members and twelve interns picked to sleep on the floor and have their lives photographed, cartooned, tweeted, blogged, facebooked and autostraddled. Find out what happens when lesbians [and interns who claim to not be lesbians] stop being polite and start getting real queer!
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Why Are Gay Ladies So Afraid of the Gynecologist?
“We saddle up, feet in stirrups, ready to go and … bam! suddenly all become heterosexual women with one interest: reproduction!”