Results for: meet up
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Indonesian LBT Women Exposed to Backlash
CEDAW–the international beacon for women’s rights–does not shine on lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people in Indonesia. This is a painful disappointment, given LBT people’s need for protection from a fundamentalist backlash.
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Troy, MI Mayor Suggests Gays Should Be Cured, Manages to Look Like Even More of a Jerk
Michigan mayor’s attempt to get friendly with the gays by attending a Troy High GSA meeting proves insincere.
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Russia’s Gay Revolution, As Seen by An American Abroad
“Friends at home are asking me what’s going on with all the protests… I never know what to say.”
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More on Nigeria’s Terrible, Horrible Anti-Gay Anti-Human Rights Bill
“…under the proposed legislation, even writing journalistic pieces such as this would be illegal.”
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Anti-Gay Rhetoric By Any Other Name in Tennessee
No one will notice you’re homophobic if you talk about economics enough!
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First Rule of Boycotting Club Is No Gays Allowed
In which anti-gay groups try to explain how boycotting is only okay when they do it.
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“Corrective Rape” in South Africa: Not Getting Better
The contempt, and rage, felt toward the lesbian community in South Africa is pretty devastating, and the meeting with the LGBTQ activists wasn’t the catalyst we’d hoped for…
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The Magical Mayday for Marriage Tour Is Coming to Take Gay Equality Away
The tour will include an RV they describe as “wrapped in marriage messaging” going from city to city throughout the month to meet with legislators – and average, everyday straight people, too!
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Tennessee Passes ‘Don’t Say Gay’ and ‘Do Be Racist’ Bills
The recent passing of two ‘WTF’ bills has us wondering what in Dolly’s name is going on in Tennessee. Luckily, George Takei has a solution. [WITH UPDATE]
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Burnaby Parents Will Fight for Their Kids’ Right to Discriminate Against LGBT Students
A group of parents in British Columbia are planning to hold a protest later this evening over the Burnaby school district’s proposed anti-sexual-orientation-based-discrimination policy.
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Mazel Tov, Flour Bluff High School Gets a GSA – For Now
The administrators of Flour Bluff High School are making major strides, all it took was the threat of a lawsuit from the ACLU to get them to reluctantly grant a hospitalized teen temporary permission to have a GSA!
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Texas Colleges To Subvert Homogay Club Agenda With “Traditional Values” Resource Centers
Needless to say, if this bill goes into effect, and it looks like it will, the gay clubs will be offering superior refreshments and entertainment.
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Seriously, Who Does A Gay Teen Have To Petition To Get A GSA Around Here
This isn’t the first time a high school has threatened to cut all extracurricular clubs because they didn’t want to have a Gay Straight Alliance. But this week marks the first time someone actually has! Way to go, Flour Bluff High School in Texas!
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Haters Gonna Hate (Gays) Forever, Apparently
Bad and not-that-bad stuff happening with homophobes in the UK, Toronto, Ohio, Michigan and New Zealand. Also some good news, silver lining, heartwarming things and a Daily Show clip!
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Is Oklahoma’s Del City High School Encouraging Lesbian Students to Drop Out? [UPDATED]
Forget prom — lesbians at Del City High School are being told they shouldn’t even bother showing up to graduation.
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PLEASE STOP: Zach Harrington, Gay, Suicide At 19
We need gay and lesbian teens to stop killing themselves. Which means we need the rest of the world to stop making it so fucking hard for them that it feels like they would be better off 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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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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Malawi “Gay” Couple Pardoned, Ceding to U.N. & International Pressure (No Homo)
GOOD NEWS! Following a meeting with U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned the “gay” couple who had been sentenced to 14 years of jail and hard labor, announcing, “I have done this on humanitarian grounds but this does not mean that I support this.” Also,
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Uncool High Schools: Constance McMillen Transfers, Kern Votes Against Harvey Milk Day
Constance McMillen, the lesbian who wanted to bring her girlfriend to prom, has switched schools to avoid bullying. Harvey Milk Day won’t be celebrated by the teenagers who need it most because of homophobic Prop-8-supporting school administrators! Awesome! Also, gay unions legalized in Portugal, more feelings on Elena Kagan, Montgomery College will have an African-American lesbian president, Christian charities are maybe kind of allowed to legally discrimate sort of, and Jezebel wants to talk to you about women’s colleges.