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“Mitt Gets Worse” Chronicles Romney’s Backwards LGBT Agenda
Not scared of Mitt Romney yet? Let this new oral history project fill your heart with fear and your pockets with voter registration slips.
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Nepal’s Colorful, Musical March to Even Greater LGBT and Gender Equality
Today Nepal’s queer community has fought to end fear, shame, and invisibility — and they made it fun.
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Retroactive Retirement Is All The Rage: The Deal with Romney and Bain Capital
Here’s what the Mitt Romney news has looked like for the past few days: Bain Capital, retired, 1999, 2002, Bain Capital Bain Capital Bain Capital. Autostraddle is here for you in your time of need, with a simplified primer on what it all means and why you should care.
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Germany Sends Lesbian Refugee Back To Iran With a Little Advice: Pretend To Be Straight
Samira Ghorbani Danesh faces imprisonment and torture if German courts don’t reverse a recent decision.
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Washington Has Enough Votes For Gay Marriage Bill to Pass, We May Win A Thing
“What we’re asking you to do is vote in favor of civil rights. Not what your district says,”
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Republican Women’s Policy Committee Shows Little Interest In Helping Women Outside the Committee
24 Republican female legislators have formed a Women’s Policy Committee, but it’s way less exciting than it sounds.
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The Last Thing I’m Ever Gonna Write About Dharun Ravi
Dharun Ravi has issued an apology in which he failed to actually apologize for anything, but maybe we need to look at the big picture and the scary numbers now, instead.
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Conservative Group Doesn’t Want You Having A Gay Ol’ Time At Disney World
The Florida Family Association is trying to raise enough money to fly a warning overhead for Gay Days at Disney World. Perhaps they would be better off just shouting hate from the top of the Dumbo ride.
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Troy, MI Mayor Suggests Gays Should Be Cured, Manages to Look Like Even More of a Jerk
Michigan mayor’s attempt to get friendly with the gays by attending a Troy High GSA meeting proves insincere.
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Rick Santorum Almost Wins Iowa Caucus, But Actually Romney Does
As close as it was, and it was very close, Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucus.
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Anti-Gay Lawsuit Opposing New York Marriage Equality Will Be Allowed To Proceed
“It is ironic that much of the state’s brief passionately spews sanctimonious verbiage on the separation of powers in the governmental branches, and clear arm-twisting by the Executive on the Legislative permeates this entire process.”
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Did You Hear The One About The Anti-Gay Politician Secretly Donating Sperm to Lesbian Couples?
Bill Johnson is a Republican politician from Alabama who campaigned on a platform against gay rights. He’s also been secretly donating sperm to lesbians. He has a “human need,” you see.
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Learning the Difference Between “Neutrality” and “War on Gay Teens” in Anoka-Hennepin
“Every time a loudspeaker crackled in class, kids braced themselves for the feared preamble, ‘We’ve had a tragic loss.'”
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Occupy Atlanta Saves Lesbian Vet’s Home, Accomplishes Tangible Change
Occupy Atlanta successfully helped a lesbian couple, one of whom is an Iraq War veteran, keep their home.
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More on Nigeria’s Terrible, Horrible Anti-Gay Anti-Human Rights Bill
“…under the proposed legislation, even writing journalistic pieces such as this would be illegal.”
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Judge Walker Still Gay, Still Totally Competent To Rule on Prop 8
In case you were worried we hadn’t spent enough time discussing Judge Walker’s gayness.
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Don’t Mess With a Lesbian Mom in Distress
The Mayor of Troy is brilliantly called out for her homophobia and the IRS is making life harder for some lesbian couples. Also some lesbian mom stuff is happening in Australia.
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Anti-Gay Rhetoric By Any Other Name in Tennessee
No one will notice you’re homophobic if you talk about economics enough!
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Occupy Oakland’s Awesomeness Triumphs Over Fringe Craziness
Occupy Oakland’s achievements were overshadowed in the media by the violence of a splinter group and that’s really not fair because Wednesday was actually really awesome.
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It’s the “Year of the Woman” In Politics, Unless It’s Actually the Opposite
Will the coming election year usher in more female incumbents than ever before, or watch them all disappear?