Results for: Feel good
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Is School a Battlefield For Your Homogay Heart?
Some things change and some things stay the same, like kids getting bullied in school for their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Also, a new survey reveals that most Americans think gay families are kinda normal-ish.
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Christine O’Donnell Reminds Us That Gay Family Members Do Not a Homo-Friendly Politician Make
Did you hear the one about the [homophobic politician] and their gay [daughter/sister/brother/friend]? So did we, and you know, it’s really not funny anymore.
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Tel Aviv LGBT Center Shooting, One Year Later: March to Equality, Tell Someone You Love Them
The image of Tel Aviv as a liberal gay haven was shattered last year when a gunman injured 15 and killed two youths at an LGBT community center a few months before I was headed there for a study abroad program. On the one-year anniversary of the shooting, LGBTQ Israelis are marching from Jerusalem to Knesset in The March for Equality. Although I was not there today, I also have feelings on this.
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Apparently Everyone Just F*cking Loves Us Now
The official record of this one day when a bunch of stories on Google News made it seem as though the world cared about us, like we were real people. We have no explanation.
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Gay Teens Continue Getting Bullied, Committing Suicide: Seth Walsh, 13 and Tyler Clementi, 18, September’s Latest Victims
Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.
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Takin’ it Back Day: Anti-Gay Politicians ‘Apologize’ For ‘Queers Should Commit Suicide/Get AIDS’, ‘Can We Marry Dogs?’, etc.
An Arkansas school board member responded to a call to fight homophobic bullying with, surprise, homophobic bullying. Good thing he resigned last night? Sort of. And while we’re on topic; apologies for comparing gay marriage to marrying tables/dogs and predicting homo-apocalypse.
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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.
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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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“Homosexuals” Less Popular than Gays: What’s in a Word?
Today is sociology day on the society and culture fix! We’ve got the linguistics of homosexual/gay/queer/lesbian/gaymo discrimination, problematic gay boyfriends, avatars that deal with sexism and racism, and gays who look loaded. Oh and also; Alex explains some of Autostraddle’s brand-new (this week!) design elements.
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Anti-Gay CA Senator Ashburn Walks Out of Gay Bar, Gets DUI, COMES OUT
The lawsuit for those injured in the Atlanta Eagle bar raid needs your help, Roy Ashburn is a lying hypocrite, General Petraeus has worked with queers in the past and hasn’t been raped by a man yet, the VA Attorney General wants to take away college protections, Minnesotans are giving it their all for Uganda, and Roseanne wants to save the gay Mormon kids.
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Forget the Economy. It’s the Gay Sex, Stupid!
You think the economy is f*cking up America? Nope, says Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal: it’s Adam Lambert. Also the first gay wedding in Martha Stewart Living, rugby player Gareth Thomas comes out, FDNY investigates why two EMTs let Eutisha die, feminism is dead?, quadruplets accepted to Yale, Professor Foxy answers a poly-trans-queer’s dating concerns and TIME’s “person of the year” is always a dude so Broadsheet has some lady-suggestions. Also a funny video about B-Roll!
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Thanks Anti-Equality Conservative A**hats, But John Shelby Spong & the Gays Have Had Enough of You Now.
Have we said all there is to say to people who passionately oppose full & equal rights for gays and lesbians?
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How “The Real World DC” Makes Us Love Gay Activism, Our Hypothetical Mothers
The kids on The Real World DC are earnest about activism, and remind us of the good kind of Mom. The New Hampshire House killed two anti-gay bills, Congress is getting close to voting on ENDA, an African-American lesbian is running for Mass state senate and meanwhile rights are taken away from people in Virginia and a discrimination suit is reversed.
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Obama Knows Gays are still “Denied Their Rights”
Craigslist Mondays! Also: My son cannot room with a gay!, Obama admits that gays are still denied their rights, 16-year old German popstar revealed – “she used to be a boy!”, True Blood has an “antigay worldview”?, Lady Gaga fashion, Stevie Nicks Pop Icon, and the comback of boxed wine!
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Daily Fix: Friends of Vanished Gay Med Student Fight to Rescue him from Ex-Gay Ministry Exodus International
Well, the Exodus International conference features a Women’s Oasis breakfast every day (our favorite meal to eat out!) and almost everyone gets a roommate! It’s like an Olivia Cruise, but with less fun and more Jesus and more shame/self-loathing.
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Evangelicals, Rapists, Tramps & Thieves: Why Anti-Gay Leaders Love to Sin, Are the Sinners
Evangelical Christians, televangelists and other conservative religious leaders have been convicted of rape, sexual misconduct, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, rape as an accomplice, polygamy, infidelity, solicitation of male and female prostitutes, incest, sexual conduct with minors, taking indecent liberties with young boys and … stealing a sex toy from a woman’s home. Yet the ball’s still in their court. Why is that?
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Daily Fix: The Gays in Maine Marry Mainly on the Plain
Gays can get married in Maine, Jennifer Beals runs, & Marie Osmond is down with her gay daughter.
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Weekend Fix: Cat Cora Craves Cupcakes & Kids Can Be REALLY CRUEL
Cat Cora is going to have many babies, Lara Perkins is getting married, gay republicans have a new, catchier name, and an eleven-year-old boy has hung himself as an absolutely inconceivably awful consequence of anti-gay bullying.