Results for: book
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Lambda Literary Awards Now Open to All Authors, Not Just Gay Ones
For the last two years, the Lambda Literary Awards have only been open to LGBT authors, but that’s about to change.
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Hate Crime Killing On Video: This Still Happens
Two white teenagers in Mississippi beat a black man, then drove over him in a pickup truck.
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Also. Also. Also: From “Homosexuality in America” to “Gay in America” and Beyond
Another installment of stories you should read and things you should know about. Includes time travel.
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Lesbians Face Discrimination in Dollywood, a Vermont Inn and a SF Gertrude Stein Exhibit
Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene, I’m begging of you please don’t take my t-shirt
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Gym Teacher Suspended Over Lesbian Affair With Student, Just Like in the Movies!
Is there a double standard for gender when considering inappropriate and often criminal sexual misconduct between teachers and students?
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Also. Also. Also: Bi Actress Bai Ling is a Survivor, NFL Ballers Pose Shirtless for Gay Equality
Gay man says he was kicked out of Pizza Hut for wearing a dress, gay pop star & boyfriend sent to the back of the bus, Google + goes gender-free and so much more!
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TOMS Guy Speaks at Anti-Gay Group Focus on the Family’s Event, Apparently Regrets That Now
“All Mycoskie had to do was type “Focus on the Family” in to that long skinny box at the top of his browser. Oh, he’s using Firefox? So the top right box.”
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“Gay Girl in Damascus” is Actually a Delusional Guy in Turkey
Straight guy poses as a lesbian on the internet, acquires internet girlfriend — with a devastating and appalling political twist.
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You’ll Never Guess Who’s Funding NY’s Pro-Gay Marriage Push
You guys, what if Republican donors made gay marriage happen in New York. Like really, what if.
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People Say The Darndest (and Anti-Gay) Things, They’re Not Funny
Three tales of terror from the crypt of “Dude, you’re like, a grown man. Are you serious?” / “Brokeback Mountain jokes haven’t been funny for YEARS.”
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Ivan Coyote on ‘Flying While Butch’: Don’t Let “State-Enforced Gender Conformity” Control You
“I managed to convince her that it was the wad of $20s I had from selling books in my front left pocket (I dress left), and she radioed back that the “object had been identified” and let me go, but my hands did not stop shaking for a couple of hours.”
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Do School Libraries Need Books? (Yes! We needed “Annie on my Mind”!)
Many schools are considering doing away with books — NYTimes debates the issue with Experts, and we have feelings. Also; gay Canadian teens in rural areas are lonely, lesbian activist marries gay man to prove a point, transgender woman on Oprah, first African-American gay speaker of the house in Rhode Island, Utah GBLTs won’t be ignored, and a kickass parody of the offensive Dodge Charger Superbowl Ads.
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Alabama Lesbian Arrested for Getting Attacked Outside a Straight Bar
Thankfully, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act means that when someone is attacked by a dozen people and the police are called to the scene, justice can finally be served. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
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Gay Bullying: How Did We Get Here? An Expert Explains
It’s 2010, and Portia de Rossi just changed her last name to DeGeneres. How is bullying of gay kids in school really still a life-threatening problem? Finally, an actual expert gives you some answers.
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What if Reading Your Girlfriend’s Email Was Illegal?
A dude in Michigan is facing felony charges for reading his wife’s email on their shared laptop. As if.
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Gay Pastor Comes Out and Other Evidence of It Actually Getting Better
We’re doing things one day at a time now and this was a pretty good day as far as they go. A megachurch pastor has come out so that his story can save lives, educators in Britain are educating on queer heroes to end anti-queer bullying, and librarians are honoring the authors of queer books for kids.
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Everybody Hurts
Not all gay kids are depressed — and not all straight kids are happy. In The New York Times’ “Gay or Straight, Teenagers Aren’t So Different,” experts discuss new research and make salient points. This whole thing reminds me of “Pump up the Volume.”
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Learning to H8: BBC Finds Anti-Semetic, Homophobic Material in Textbooks
6-year-olds in part-time Islamic schools across Britain have been learning about the difference of opinion re: methods of executing gay people.
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Top 18 Anti-Gay Hate Groups Listed, Obsessed With Nazis, Resent Being Called “Hate Groups”
NOM and the Family Research Council are upset the Southern Poverty Law Center called them hate groups, because it’s not hatred if you’re right.
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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).