Results for: queer parenting
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For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real
“Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”
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Mitt Romney Fought With A Gay Veteran, Gay Veteran Won
Mitt Romney gets asked by a Vietnam vet whether or not he supports equal rights for him and his spouse, and he does not have a satisfactory answer.
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Lindsay Lohan’s Giving Ellen Her Only “Playboy” Interview, Keeping it In the Family
Lindsay Lohan’s only doing one interview about her Playboy photoshoot – and it’s with Ellen Degeneres.
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Effort to Repeal California Gay History in Schools Officially Fails
The people trying to repeal SB 48, California’s gay history bill, aren’t going to be able to pull it off.
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DADT Repeal, DOMA, and Gray Areas: It’s Still Not Easy Being Gay
This is what not-quite-equal looks like.
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Also. Also. Also: Darlene Has a New Girlfriend And Other More Important Stories
Nigeria passes an appalling anti-gay law, Sara Gilbert & Linda Perry get together, TI thinks gay people are too sensitive and SO MUCH MORE!
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Also. Also. Also: Gay Allies Get a Week, Thirteen Gets a Girlfriend, Etc.
Is same-sex education bad for students? Did you know about Ally Week and/or International Fisting Day? How does Lemony Snicket feel about OWS?
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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?
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More Schoolgirls in India Might Be Lesbians
“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”
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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.”
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On What It Means To Say You Were Born This Gay
“To say “I was born this way” is to apologize for the person I am and for whom I love. It’s like saying I would be different if I could. I wouldn’t.”
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Coptic Church Defends Students’ Rights to be Homophobic
“We don’t discriminate, we just don’t believe in homosexuality.”
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Boehner And Clement’s Brief to the Court On DOMA Is An Anti-Gay Masterpiece
The brief that John Boehner and his lawyer Paul Clement filed to try to have Edith Windsor’s case against DOMA dismissed is exactly as full of anti-gay gems as you thought it would be.
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You Can Call Me “Fag”: American Teens Don’t Find Offensive Slurs Offensive
New survey shows that most US young people don’t find homophobic, racial or sexist slurs offensive. Is this a good or bad thing?
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The “Institution of Marriage” Goes Gay in New York and It Looks Good
As is only reasonable given the fact that we’ve been denied access to it for all but the last decade of our nation’s history, “the institution of marriage” has come to mean something unique and unprecedented to the gay community.
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Being A Gay “Good Example” in Australia
All sorts of things are being done and said about gay and trans people in Australia; here are some of them.
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The Tragic But Ultimately Inspiring True Story of Gay Homeless Teen Brian Dixon
When homeless gay teens need a place to turn, it seems that real and immediate support is more likely to come from local networks, despite the government’s best intentions.
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‘Stop SB 48’ Campaign Doesn’t Want US History Books to Tell the Truth
The predictable, yet still enraging, backlash to California’s groundbreaking LGBT-inclusive history textbooks.
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Why Gay History Could Make History In California
Schoolkids in California are one step away from having gay role models included in their standard social science curriculum.
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Kate Moennig Is Shy, Beautiful
It’s time for your tri-annual update on Shane’s whereabouts. Plus: James Franco talks gay rumors and sexuality with Playboy, Jane Lynch & wife Lara Embry do Vogue, Haviland Stillwell is on stage in LA, and Stephen Colbert does “It Gets Better.”