Sunday Funday Is Gonna Be A Big Star
This week, I bring you positive feelings about the justice system – which is rare – and other feelings that are all somehow happy, optimistic, and brief at the same time.
Things I Read That I Love #32: I’m Collecting You
Topics include book collecting, secret shopping, body image, the value of a college education and so much more!
London’s World Pride 2012: This Is What “Plan B” Looks Like
“It’s already mental that we are expecting people to come from far and wide to dance about in our pitiful wet July weather, but the fact that we cannot get our own mayor to cough up the cash for this event is just making us bitter.”
Also.Also.Also: Rachel Maddow Talks Depression And Other Stories We Missed This Week
What we missed this week: DC Republicans adopt inclusive language, Chuck Norris had feelings about boy scouts, and a safer sex guide for trans*women is right at your fingertips!
Dukes v. Wal-Mart and What the Supreme Court Thinks About Oppression
“…a class of people large enough to constitute a population majority—as women did—could not feasibly be “oppressed…”
Texas Teen Lesbian Shooting Victim Remembers That Night, Eyewitness Comes Forward
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.
Sunday Funday Is Proud to Be a Gay American
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!
Even Exodus International Doesn’t Want to Talk About “Curing” Gays Anymore
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.
Things I Read That I Love #31: Working One’s Way Through A Crisis
This week’s topics include bipolar disorder, alcoholism, child abuse, immigration, poverty, deadly amusement park rides and working at the apple store!
Germany Sends Lesbian Refugee Back To Iran With a Little Advice: Pretend To Be Straight
Samira Ghorbani Danesh faces imprisonment and torture if German courts don’t reverse a recent decision.
Gay Rights Are Not Queer Liberation
“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.”
Marriage Equality Not the Same Thing As Divorce Equality for Gay Couples
What happens if you’re gay married but don’t want to be anymore? It might be incredibly difficult.
Fringe Festivals are Weird in the Best Way
Brittani’s Team Pick: For those of you that haven’t had too many brushes with independent performance art, it usually makes you go WTF in a WTF way but sometimes it makes you go WTF in an awesome way.
Navy Officer Actually Fired For Letting Anti-Gay Hazing Go On For Eight Months
In which there are actual consequences for the hazing and harassment of a gay sailor.
Also.Also.Also: The Best Places To Be Gay And Other Stories We Missed
GLAAD wants sports to be fun for everyone, Montreal’s looking out for you, Uganda is getting rid of gay-friendly NGOs and DADT’s not going anywhere.
Teenage Lesbian Couple Shot, One Killed, in South Texas Park
19-year-old Mollie Judith Olgin and 18-year-old Mary Christine Chapa had only been together for five months when both were shot last weekend. No arrests have been made.
Are Male Role Models Necessary?
A new study shows that boys raised by lesbians are properly gender socialized. Um, yay?
Here’s What’s Happening With Gay Marriage In The UK
David Cameron says yay, the church says nay, Parliament has the final say.
The Atlantic Tells Us Why Women Can’t “Have It All” and What We Should Do About It
Having a job, having a family, having feminist principles and having it all.
It’s Sunday Funday and Our Haters Are Our Motivators
Everything’s coming up gay! And our first Fundraiser of the Week ever is here!