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Your Two Minute Guide to Feelings About Gay Marriage

GOOD released a summary of changing attitudes about gay marriage that you can blow through in under five minutes. And it’s illustrated!

Ryan Yates August 27, 2011 17 Comments
Society + Culture

Gay People Suddenly Everywhere According To Census Data

“Middle America is safer and more welcoming for gay people than ever before, which is good, because it’s most of America.”

Rachel August 26, 2011 15 Comments
Society + Culture

Conservatives Can’t Handle The Reading Rainbow, “Lesbian Orgy” Books Taken Off NJ Summer Reading List

“You want to spur interest in kids reading that fits their needs, not that of people in the 1930s.”

Rachel August 24, 2011 17 Comments
Society + Culture

Study Shows that Bisexual Men Exist, Bisexual People Not Surprised

New study by Northwestern University reverses their infamous 2005 study disputing the existence of male bisexuality.

Rose August 24, 2011 65 Comments
Society + Culture

Let Them Eat Cake (To Celebrate Gay Rights) This Sunday Funday

Today a bunch of celebrities are doing things that may or may not affect your rights, lesbo. So why not indulge in the rainbow cake mix?

Carmen August 21, 2011 45 Comments
Society + Culture

Joanna Brooks Proves That Feminist, Gay-Friendly Mormons Can Exist

“What’s a liberal, feminist, gay-friendly, Democratic girl like you doing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?” “I was born this way, to borrow a phrase.”

Rachel August 20, 2011 22 Comments
Society + Culture

New Deportation Process Could Save Gay Bi-National Couples by Focusing on Felons

The Obama Administration is gonna start going over 300,000 deportation cases case-by-case to ensure nobody is wasting their time on perfectly respectable humans.

Riese August 18, 2011 5 Comments
Society + Culture

It’s Tuesday Gay Good News Day Because The Numbers Are On Our Side

There are 87% more of us in the desert, everyone wants us to get married, basically in general we’re multiplying rapidly and sooner or later will inevitably take over.

Carmen August 16, 2011 9 Comments
Society + Culture

We Should Talk to Each Other Poolside This Sunday Funday

Let’s cuddle and enjoy lesbian books, community building on behalf of gays everywhere, Jane Lynch in a suit, Rose McGowan’s lesbian posse, and a two-piece swimsuit.

Carmen August 14, 2011 17 Comments
Society + Culture

The Last Days of Gay Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi: New Questions, Some Answers

Dharun Ravi wants all charges against him dismissed — and the papers filed in his defense offer new insights into what happened to Tyler Clementi.

Riese August 14, 2011 51 Comments
Society + Culture

Also. Also. Also: Anti-Gay GOP Debate Rhetoric & Retro Homophobia to Tickle Your Funnybone

So many things, like Staceyann Chin and New Balance and an old documentary and an article from yesterday about how the teevee made you gay and all the GOP debate anti-gay stuff in 2mins and really just so much. Just read it!

the team August 12, 2011 22 Comments
Society + Culture

The Bravest Woman in Seattle In Her Own Words

Rachel’s Team Pick: “What I really want, I now realize, is peace. And I know now, after this trial, that justice does not bring peace. It only brings justice.”

Rachel August 11, 2011 17 Comments
Society + Culture

Hate Crime Killing On Video: This Still Happens

Two white teenagers in Mississippi beat a black man, then drove over him in a pickup truck.

guest August 11, 2011 51 Comments
Society + Culture

Finally, A Study On Queer Latinas

Latina queers exist, believe it or not. And we’re having some trouble here. This time, though, we’re less alone.

Carmen August 10, 2011 27 Comments
Society + Culture

Gay Marriage Doesn’t Change Straight Marriage…Except When It Does

How Dan Savage and other queers introduced straight people to non-monogamy.

Rose August 9, 2011 83 Comments
Society + Culture

Gym Teacher Suspended Over Lesbian Affair With Student, Just Like in the Movies!

Is there a double standard for gender when considering inappropriate and often criminal sexual misconduct between teachers and students?

Riese August 9, 2011 58 Comments
Society + Culture

It’s Sunday Funday, Let’s Put on Our Hottest Clothes and Have a Gay Time

Everyone looks damn sexy and everyone is gay. Plus, there are still weddings to be had, and lots of honeymoons to go on. And do you love Lucille Ball? I love Lucille Ball.

Carmen August 7, 2011 32 Comments
Society + Culture

These Aren’t Wedding Photos, But They Should Be

Carmen’s Team Pick: I have at my fingertips “23 Portraits of Gay Couples Who Can’t Get Married,” and even though it is not good news I want to show it to you anyway, because it is such a testament to love.

Carmen August 5, 2011 12 Comments
Society + Culture

Science Wants Gay Mormons to Talk About Being Gay Mormons

Because how else are we going to figure this out?

Laura August 1, 2011 28 Comments
Society + Culture

Ten Years of Purgatory: A.K.A. Ages 20-29

My mother does not talk about her twenties. Ever. I have no idea what she did. I imagine weird artsy jobs, loneliness, and a lot of drugs.

Lily August 1, 2011 61 Comments
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