Results for: book
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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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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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Ten Things That Are Purple, Like The LGBTQ Spirit Day Shirt You Wore Last Week
I was writing about LGBT Spirit Day but then it was a week later so I decided to focus on the color purple instead, but with a special emphasis on spirit day.
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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).
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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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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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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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Fifth-Grader with Two Moms Falls, Gets Injured, and Nobody Makes a Sound
Jenna Bissell is being discriminated against in the fifth grade because she has two moms. Happy Mother’s Day! Also, Iowa hates gay campers, David Dean Bottrell hates Setoodeh’s Newsweek article, and important historical milestones for gays in Lithuania and the Philippines.
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Gay Equality Will Require More Imagination, Less Talk of Buttsex
A new book explains how “politics of disgust” have drowned out the “politics of humanity” necessary to achieve equal rights [sidenote: similar imagination and empathy-based strategies apply to challenging racism as well]. Also, gay Asians face racism within the community, International Women’s Day, watching “The Little Mermaid” while trans, Corey Haim’s death, Jon Stewart & Steven Colbert FTW last night and gay TV-makers will lose their tax breaks.
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Uganda is Takin’ it Back: Anti-Gay Bill Will Kill the Gays After All
Uganda calls takebacks — killing gays will remain a piece of the anti-gay legislation after all. We look at other countries with similar laws and recent interviews with anti-gay leaders in Uganda. Also; GLSEN is counting the number of times you say “dyke” on twitter and we don’t understand why and an annoying columnist talks smack about the hot teacher makeout.