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International Transgender Day of Remembrance: We Will Win the Coming Revolutions
Yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. So today we remember, but also look forward. Also: Queer As Folk/Glee, Harry Potter!, Anne Hathaway, Pretty Little Liars, queer youth, and zombies!
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26-Year Old Gay Youth Activist Joseph Jefferson Kills Himself in Brooklyn
26-year-old Joseph Jefferson was a gay youth activist and an inspiring human being. Now he’s dead.
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Friday Fix: Essence’s Lesbian Wedding, Stephen Colbert’s Gay Fear, Other Stories
Essence’s first lesbian wedding! Early returns from DADT Survey have good news! And Stephen Colbert faces his fears, which include the editor of OUT Magazine, Feministing interviews Rachel Maddow and Winston is a snail for Halloween. Also, moar, with a special appearance by Anderson Cooper and the Jersey Shore (not together).
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Doctor Finds Homosexuality Cure, Involves A Better Diet, Less Alcohol, Exercise
A dude in Serbia thinks homosexuality can be “cured” if you drink enough water and think good thoughts! Also: put your purple on people, Hillary Clinton says it gets better.
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Gay Bullying Update: Your Near-Daily Roundup Of Stuff That’s Happening
Largely positive, and largely in video form! A Fort Worth councilman breaks every part of your heart and then puts it back together again, awesome kids with awesome families fighting against queerphobia, and other people working to help our communities.
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Gone Too Soon: 13-Year Old Gay Texas Boy Driven to Suicide by Bullying
13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.
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Good News, Ladies: You Can Be Good At Math, Bad At Feelings
Feel free to be a brilliant scientist and total emotional wrecking ball today as an author debunks all the gender myths about how your brain is too female to function.
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Victory, Howl, Bisexuality, Death, Glee, Labor, Freedom
Today there was some good news related to DADT just in time for Sunday Funday! Lucky you. Also, Stephen Colbert did something funny, Celebrate Bisexuality Day happened, many people have many feelings w/r/t Glee and one of those feelings is BRITNEY, and we have insights from Franzen and A REVIEW OF HOWL OMFG.
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SMACKDOWN: Lies In “The Truth About GLSEN’s School Climate Report” from Anti-Gays
It’s tempting to look for people to blame in the wake of the terrible tragedies this past week has brought, but it’s best to resist that urge. Oh wait, no. You can blame these people.
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Yvonne Moore Sued Her Church For Performing “Disgusting” Gay Marriage, Which is Crazy
Yvonne Moore, “world’s worst church lady” (according to THAT’S GAY), sues her church for 250K for that gross lesbian wedding they threw. But hey, let’s check out that book she’s been reading in “Autostraddle’s Primer on New & Old Testament’s Mentions of Homosexuality” which will soothe your soul, even if you’ve eaten trail mix, which’s bad for your soul. FYI.
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Hey Jackie, You’re Not A Lesbian, Also We’re Not Your Chemistry Experiment
An essay by British sort-of-former lesbian is so ridiculous we didn’t write about it, we just quoted it for you. Plus, gay parents are great parents, European nations don’t have to grant same-sex marriage, an awesome 15-year-old boy is pissed that his library has no gay books, and Soledad O’Brien talks about DADT.
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What Happened To Mitrice Richardson
The recent discovery of Mitrice Richardson’s body finally put an end to the speculation about her whereabouts – but there are still important questions that need to be asked about how she disappeared in the first place.
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10 Best Quotes From Midsummer’s Great Girl-on-Girl Feminist Cyberwar
It’s a new dawn & a new day for feminism on the internet, and a lot of ladies have said a lot of things about it and even if nobody won The Daily Show/Olivia Munn/#yallarejustjealous cyber-wars, some of those things are really important things! Also, Jezebel is taking over the internet if that’s ok with you.
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Gay Best Friends Named Prom King & Queen, Are The Future
Two gay best friends won prom king & queen by a landslide, American Apparel gets shadier by the minute, Judy Shepard’s memoir deemed “homophobic” in the Bible Belt – WTF, Pride dos and don’ts. We bring you an unfortunately non-Alex Vega Lady Gaga recap, and exciting news for celesbian chef Cat Cora, as well as a new lesbian indie film.
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Is Facebook Helping the Gay Rights Movement by Outing You?
Newsweek has a new article about gay people! This time, a new writer wonders if facebook might change the ACTUAL FACE of gay America? Also, Margaret Cho on Rue McClanahan, lesbian newlyweds are the first in the New York Times Vows video series, Dutch airline denies gay flight attendants request to not stay in Iran and South Africa’s only lesbian soccer team.
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The Nightmare of Rape on College Campuses
An article about one woman’s experience of the aftermath of rape sheds light on a problem on college campuses nationwide. Plus, does prom even matter, Ellen maybe ruined AI, people who shop at Whole Foods are thin because they have money, and watch the trailer for Kiana Firouz’s controversial movie.
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77% of Americans Know That They Know A Gay Person
A new poll reveals 77% of Americans know a real live gay person! Someone should come out to the remaining 23%, amirite? Pride parades all over the world are dealing with Israeli-Palestinean tensions by, er, not dealing with them at all. Also, lesbians makes great parents–holla, Vikki!, Janelle Monae’s airtime could be suffering from racial taste segregation, Deborah Rhode wants to protect all you shawties (and baldies and spotties), and Sarah Palmer talks about cows and gender.
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Who the F*ck Are Those Anonymous Internet Commenters, Anyway?
The Boston Globe takes an in-depth look at anonymous internet commenters and clearly we have some feelings re: this. Also, Samoan culture has a third gender for trans women, Target accidentally got into the business of fascism, French law seems to love gender policing, more on the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition, and there’s a new Bollywood film about Hitler?
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Larry King’s Gay Christian Night: Jennifer Knapp, Clay Aiken, Ted Haggard & Pastor Bob
Larry King has booked quite a show tonight — recently out Christian singer Jennifer Knapp will appear with Clay Aiken, Ted Haggard and Pastor Bob Bostford, who recently spoke out against Knapp’s sexuality. (ETA: We’ve got VIDEO!) Also; a new That’s Gay, Pan-Am’s gay flight, America’s highest cities, documentary exposing Afghanistan’s “boy play,” Generation Y’s debt and more!
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Actual Female Named Most Powerful Gay in America (Guess Who?)
The Out Top 50 Most Powerful Gays in America ranks a lady at the tippy-top (and a handful of others!) Constance McMillen may not be attending prom, but she’s gonna be grand marshall of the pride parade! A day of firsts, shaving woes, Mike Huckabee is a bigger asshat than we initially thought, and how you can help make the Martin Luther King Jr. Memoiral.