Results for: meet up
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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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In Addition to Twitter Hero, Cory Booker Is Also Reformed Homophobe
In an op-ed from 1992, “Pointing the Finger at Gays,” Cory Booker admits to being homophobic. And then he talks about how all that changed.
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Also.Also.Also: Atlanta’s Gays Are In Luck These Days And Other Stories We Missed This Week
Eighth-grader McKenna Pope singlehandedly gender neutralized the Easy-Bake Oven.
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19-Year-Old Trans Woman Sage Smith is Missing
Sage Smith is a 19-year-old trans* woman from Charlottesville, Virginia. She’s been missing since November, and the police have done a bang-up job of not finding her.
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Canada’s New Policies Toward First Nations Are Racist, Embarrassing, F*cked
“We are dying. No one should expect us to stay quiet or polite about this.”
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Michigan, Not Our Michigan: How MI’s Reactionary Politics are Driving Away Young Grads
I’m one of the countless numbers of educated young people who left the Detroit area. And it’s not just the economy, stupid, but the state’s constant refrain of anti-women, anti-labor, anti-LGBT politics that drove me away.
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Mormons’ “Softened Stance” On Homosexuality Still Feels Pretty Hard
The Church acknowledges that “same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people,” and goes on to conclude that “even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them.”
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LGBT Caucus Realness Goes Down at the DNC
For the first time, there is at least one LGBT delegate from every state. Obviously, the time of LGBT influence is now.
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Your Local VAG: “Voting, an Autostraddle Guide” On Why Local Elections Matter
With the upcoming U.S. Presidential election getting All The Press And Attention, here’s a few reasons why you shouldn’t let your local election go unnoticed.
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Toronto Decides Whether It Needs Separate Gay High Schools, Or Just Gay Equality
Yes, it’s good for there to be a safe refuge where gay students can learn and thrive in safety, but the goal should be to create this kind of safe environment in mainstream schools.
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Restrictive Voter ID Laws Halted in PA, but Voter Disenfranchisement Marches On
Judge Robert Simpson ruled that “authorities had not done enough to ensure that potential voters had access to the new documents.”
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Fake Words and Real Talk on Christina Aguilera, Weight, and Ethnicity
While quickly shot down by a rep as being “100% false,” Aguilera’s words that weren’t were around long enough to generate 100% real commentary and feelings about weight and ethnicity.
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Let’s Be Frank: Mitt Gets Worse and Worser on Gay Rights
Barney Frank is the latest and greatest oral historian for the Mitt Gets Worse project.
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New GOProud Video Explaining Gay Conservatism Is GOPathetic
Our least favorite conservative gay group should have made a dance video instead.
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Homophobic Michigan Mayor Up For Recall Proves Why She Should Be Recalled
As the citizens of Troy, MI prepare to vote out their infamous mayor, she digs herself deeper by comparing homosexuality to smoking, among other things.
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How Do You Prove Your Gayness To Canada?
“Homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria and is punishable by stoning. The difficulty for Ogunrinde lay in convincing the [Canadian] government that he was, in fact, gay.”
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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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Wet Seal In Hot Water For Racist Hiring (and Firing) Practices
Three former Wet Seal managers are taking the company to court because of its seemingly explicit top-down discrimination policy against black employees. Their lawyer, the same man who represented the plaintiffs against Wal-Mart, is hopeful that his clients will win.
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Feminist Punk Rockers “Pussy Riot” Jailed And Moscow Bans Gay Pride March for 100 Years
Three alleged members of the band have been jailed and charged with “hooliganism”, facing up to 7 years criminal punishment.