Results for: meet up
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State of the Union 2015: Instagram, LGBT Shoutout, and a Dysfunctional Tight-Knit Family
“Last night President Obama addressed the nation on a number of pressing issues ranging from Instagram to middle-class economics to the fact that climate change exists.”
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Facebook’s Half-Hearted Apology for “Real Name Policy” Doesn’t Mean Much for LGBT Users
Getting an apology feels like winning, but did Facebook really say the magic words or just massage the truth in the same way that lousy ex of yours did?
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Why Lyft and Uber Endanger Both Passengers and Drivers: A Former Lyft Driver Speaks Out
Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft are a great idea in theory, but in actuality they’re quite dangerous — for the passenger and the driver. I should know; I’ve been both.
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Stonewall Begins Work On Trans Inclusion, Asks for Your Feedback
#TransStonewall, a closed door conference attended by 50 trans activists and community members, hopefully signals a positive future for Britain’s largest LGB charity and its relationship with the trans community.
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7 Vital Stats About Our LGBT Elders
A new report from SAGE lays out what you need to know the lives and experiences of aging LGBT people.
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Strict Voter ID Laws Once Again Rear Ugly Head, Could Disenfranchise Thousands of Trans Voters
Just over a quarter of trans people in states with photo ID voting laws don’t have a valid photo ID that reflects their gender and name to meet the standards required by the law, according to The Williams Institute.
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New Report Demonstrates How Anti-LGBT Laws Make It Hard For Lots of LGBTs To Make Ends Meet
“Anti-LGBT laws make people economically insecure and they disproportionately affect those who are most vulnerable within the LGBT community. They hurt you and kick you when you’re down.”
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New Jersey School District Accommodates Trans Teen After Their Initial Awfulness
After insisting Rachel would have to attend school “as a boy,” Middletown Township Public Schools is now working to accommodate the middle schooler, who began transitioning this summer.
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Injustice in the Justice System: Two Lawsuits Expose Struggle for Incarcerated LGBTs
These cases could create radical shifts for the experience of incarcerated LGBT people and they raise important questions about what a justice system better equipped to incarcerate LGBT people might mean for our communities.
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How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman
“For whatever reason, Stanley assumes that these contemporary characters are living in the same post-racial world that many people prefer to pretend we’re already living in. It’s within the confines of this utopia that these characters appear to be nothing more than sexually charged Angry Black Women, instead of oppressed minorities living in a white man’s world.”
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The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women
Michelle Goldberg’s coverage of radical feminists’ attack on trans woman is disturbingly one-sided.
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Protests in Murrieta and Oracle Point to the Racism of US Immigration Policies
White supremacy and racism, we know, have long and deep histories in American society. It’s not like it only occurred to Murrieta residents to be racist and xenophobic while browsing through their town’s blog.
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Senate Delay Threatens Funding for Thousands of Untested Rape Kits
Money designated for the testing of kits across the country is caught up in a Senate dispute over how to approve amendments to 2015 budget legislation.
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Two Years Later, Shooter of Texas Teenage Lesbian Couple Arrested For Murder and Sexual Assault
19-year-old Mollie Olgin and18-year-old Mary Chapa were sexually assaulted and shot in July 2012, resulting in Mollie’s death. At last, the depraved man who did it is in custody.
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SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights
Today the Supreme Court decided that Hobby Lobby has the right to refuse to cover its employees’ birth control; this is why the ruling happened and what it means.
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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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Also.Also.Also: La Roux Challenges Women’s Colleges and Other Stories We Missed This Week
My cat loves Autostraddle, an OITNB writer realizes she’s gay while working on the show, global governments are changing, the kidnapped Nigerian school girls may be found, and activists are as fierce as ever in fighting injustice.
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Also.Also.Also: Michelle Obama and Chelsea Clinton Are Both Gunning to Be Ellen Page’s Next Lover and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Feminist stock photography, the sexiest women’s history month in, well, history, and gay marriages heard ’round the world. But don’t ask Russia. They don’t recall that all of it ever happened.
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HRC’s New Campaign in the South Wants to Change “Hearts and Minds,” Not Much Else
In a region known for being socially conservative and heavily influenced by faith communities, HRC’s Project One America seems like a much-needed advancement for LGBT rights in the region. But is the HRC prepared to help the South, an area with a long history of struggles fueled by racism from colonization to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement?
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Brown University Student Seeks Justice For Sexual Assault Survivors On Campus
Sclove’s courageous push to bring her attack to the spotlight in order to call attention to the way her university mishandles sexual assault cases is indicative of a greater crisis. Universities and colleges across the United States have a long history of brushing sexual violence under the rug or punishing rapists with a slap on the wrist.