Results for: representation
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Queer View Mirror: Five Important News Topics We Talked About in 2013
Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.
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Queer Justice Means More Than Gay White Men Having Public Boyfriends
It’s not enough to have token representation and to not be constantly declared icky in prime time. Pieces like Carr’s cause damage because they encourage straight allies and queers to raise a drink in celebration of a fight well fought and won.
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7 Massive Injustices LGBTQ Immigrants Face In The Detention System
Here are some things you need to know from a report that details the inhumane treatment faced by LGBTQ people currently detained in the U.S. and the fight to resist these massive injustices.
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Paris Lees Debuts On BBC’s “Question Time” In A Skeleton Top, Is Awesome
Ever wanted to see someone who’s been in the state penitentiary system call bullshit on the politicians messing with said system? Yeah. That happened.
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The Whole World Can Learn Something From Southeast Gaysia and the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus
What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.
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Soldier Tried for Wikileaks Involvement Comes Out As Chelsea Manning
“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female… I hope that you will support me in this transition.”
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At Last, Obama Gives America Some Real Talk On Racism
On what Obama said (and didn’t say) this morning when he surprised everybody with a speech expanding on his thoughts about the Trayvon Martin ruling.
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Even Post-DADT, Military May Get “License to Bully” LGB Servicemembers Because “Religious Freedom”
A newly introduced bill would protect the “speech and actions” associated with religious belief, which could mean less protection for those affected by the speech and action.
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Turning the Tide: How Activism to Protect Queer Students and Communities Works
How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.
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Ontario’s New High School Gender Studies Class Will Probs Change The World
Ontario’s high schools will offer a gender studies class next semester.
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EU Wants To Fix Gender Inequality… By Banning Porn?
The European Parliament is set to vote March 12th on a proposal that seeks to ban all forms of “pornography” from “the media” without really specifying to which pornography or media they’re referring.
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What Ag-Gag Bills Are and Why They Want To Outlaw The Truth About Animal Abuse
Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on this farm he had a *CENSORED*
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New Gallup Poll Answers the Question “How Gay Is Your State?”
Gallup found out for you! Hint: not very.
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Ill Theory Documents Where Theory And Practice Collide For Young People of Color
Rachel’s Team Pick: “Theory is different from real life, but it helps us figure out how to live.”
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Top Seven Great Things That Happened On Election Night
But seriously, let’s get to the actually important stuff and talk about the lady with the flag in her hair and Donald Trump’s Twitter tantrum.
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When Will The US Abolish Cruel, Unusual And Inhumane Solitary Confinement?
Is the closing of Tamms Correctional Center — where even non-violent criminals are locked in a cell for 23 hours a day, deprived of all human contact, for years at a time — a harbinger of things to come?
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The GOP Just Isn’t Ready For Out Gay Latino Politicians
“The fact that an openly gay candidate can win by such a large margin speaks to the notion that… voters vote based on the character of the person and their values, not their sexual orientation.”
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Jane Lynch and Rachel Maddow Switch Seats and Discuss Gay Marriage
Rachel and Jane dish about gay media representation and gay marriage on The Rachel Maddow Show. So this is basically relevant to every interest you’ve ever had, ever.
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Autostraddle’s Women of Color Ask: What Does WOC Mean To Me?
“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”
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GOProud’s Gay Lunkheads Endorse Mitt Romney
GOProud has endorsed Mitt Romney and remain obnoxiously short-sighted about what a Romney presidency would mean for the LGBT community.