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Presbyterian Church Assembly Votes to Make Room for Marriage Equality in Their Constitution
After a landmark vote in the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly Thursday, the denomination’s constitutional definition of marriage allows for same-sex unions.
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Also.Also.Also. Legos and Love Reign Supreme and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Lego is building female scientists, tension at the Supreme Court is building up, and organizers are working to build a more equal future.
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Give OUT Day: Be the Support You Want to See In the World for LGBT Organizations
Less than five percent of LGBT people donate to LGBT organizations. Now is a good time to change that, and the need to support non-mainstream organizations has never been more clear.
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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland’s Former Prime Minister, Proves Lesbians Can Rule the World
“There are a lot of things you’re not supposed to be able to do when you’re gay: get married, have children, be the head of a national government, etc. But stereotypes exist to be broken, at least when you’re former Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.”
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Also.Also.Also: Uh Huh Her is Googling Stand Your Ground Laws and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Marissa Alexander needs to be free, Google needs to stop blocking the word ‘bisexual,’ and you need to see this cute pic of Shane.
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Utah School District Sued Over Limiting Access to Family Book, I Say Huzzah
Last Spring, a school district in Utah removed a book after 25 parents signed a petition for its removal. But decisions about access to age appropriate reading material shouldn’t be left up to 25 parents, so the ACLU is suing.
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Do Your Damn Part: Subscribe To Your Local Newspaper
“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”
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Straight Man Has A Queer Year, Goes Back To Real Life With A Book Deal
Does it really take a straight man to tell the world about prejudice against queers? Apparently, yes.
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Gay Liberation Front Manifesto: Still Revolutionary 30 Years Later
Thirty years later the “Gay Liberation Front Manifesto” goals remain revolutionary. The same can be said about “Sexo y Revolución.”
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Spilling the Sweet Tea on Queer Organizing in the Deep South
We got chills and teary eyes in the first session when leaders from the southern based LGBTQ advocacy organizations we invited told us simply that we didn’t have to leave the south. I can’t remember ever having heard anyone tell me that so plainly before.
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Two Trans* Women of Color Murdered Within a Week; Anti-TWOC Violence Claims Even More Lives
Islan Nettles and Domonique Newburn, two African-American trans* women, were brutally murdered within a week of each other. This is just the latest in a trend of horrific violence against trans* women of color.
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Barbara Buono’s Gay Daughter Rips Chris Christie a New Orifice
Tessa Bitterman takes on Governor Christie for his record on queer issues and tells everyone to chip in and support her mom, Barbara Buono, in the upcoming New Jersey Gubernatorial Election.
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Montana Joins the 21st Century, Decriminalizes Gay Sex
Wait, so this hadn’t happened yet?
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Bisbee, Arizona To Begin Issuing Civil Union Licenses Because They Can
Bisbee, Arizona just realized that the law only says “marriage”, not “civil unions”…
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NOM Thinks Anti-Gay Views Are, Like, So Fetch Right Now
With 75 Republicans signing on for gay marriage, how on earth will NOM stay relevant?
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It Gets Better With Books and Teen Gay Activists
This California teen is working hard to make things better by providing gay books to gay kids all over America.
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Obama’s Inaugural Address Calls Gays “Our Brothers and Sisters,” Incites Cautious Optimism
It’s telling and moving that Obama chose to dedicate a fairly significant chunk of his speech to the LGBT community; it sends the message that we are who he thinks of when remembering how equal we are or are not.
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Michigan, Not Our Michigan: How MI’s Reactionary Politics are Driving Away Young Grads
I’m one of the countless numbers of educated young people who left the Detroit area. And it’s not just the economy, stupid, but the state’s constant refrain of anti-women, anti-labor, anti-LGBT politics that drove me away.
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Australia Modernizes Misogyny
We often talk about the different ways we as a community can reclaim words, but what about when an individual actually does it?
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Controversy Breaks Out Over the Right Way to Be Ex-Gay
Team Closet vs Team Cure, battling to come up with the best (read: worst) way to force heterosexuality on queers.