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Politics + Activism

What Do You Think?: Racism in the Queerest, Most Feminist of Places

“Why on earth would any white girl want to hold up a sign with the n-word on it? …Did she just wake up and lose her damn mind?”

gabby October 7, 2011 171 Comments
Politics + Activism

Rachel Maddow Talks Gay Marriage, Conflicted Feelings

Rachel Maddow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter, and on the inside she’s talking about her feelings.

Carmen October 6, 2011 32 Comments
Politics + Activism

Equality California Won’t Try to Put Prop 8 on the Ballot for 2012, But Other Activists Will

“If EQCA abdicates their responsibility to fight for equality for the LGBT Community in California and to honor their prior commitments, Love Honor Cherish will fill the void.”

Rachel October 6, 2011 6 Comments
Politics + Activism

Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Took to the Streets and I Was There

“Now that the movement is gaining some mainstream members beyond the ragtag band of activists who began the occupation three weeks ago, will the Occupy Wall Street movement galvanize real change impacting the economic disparities in the country they are protesting?”

Jamie J. Hagen October 6, 2011 37 Comments
Politics + Activism

Controversial New Study on Gay Conversion Therapy Claims It May Actually Work

“Jones and Yarhouse found that “23% of the remaining people in the study were successful in changing their sexual orientation toward heterosexuality.”

Rachel October 5, 2011 42 Comments
Politics + Activism

“The Rainbow Struggle” Brings Gay International News Home

Incredible things are happening in this world, gay things are happening in this world…

Laura October 5, 2011 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

Bevan Dufty Reminds Us Gay Candidates Have Kids Too

This gay man thinks that watching him ride the train with his daughter will make you more likely to vote for him.

Rachel October 4, 2011 12 Comments
Politics + Activism

Lesbian Parents’ Lesbianism “Blamed” For 11-Year-Old Child’s Transgenderism

11-year-old Tammy Lobel begins Hormone Replacement Therapy, media begins slamming her lesbian parents for “human experimentation” and questioning the validity of her identity. Homophobia AND Transphobia! What fun!

Ryan Yates October 3, 2011 80 Comments
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We Are Super Close To Getting Our First Lesbian Federal Judge

“Alison J. Nathan has years of experience, and everyone she has worked with seems to have a friend crush on her.”

Jamie J. Hagen September 30, 2011 9 Comments
Politics + Activism

Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change

”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”

phoenix September 29, 2011 19 Comments
Politics + Activism

If Gay Teen Jamey’s Suicide Hasn’t Stopped Bullies From Bullying Him, What Will?

“They have no heart, is what it basically comes down to for me.”

Riese September 28, 2011 65 Comments
Politics + Activism

Gays May Win “Most Effective Activist” Award When It Comes to Obama

“Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.”

Rachel September 28, 2011 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.”

Rachel September 26, 2011 11 Comments
Politics + Activism

Obama is on Fire, Just Like Rick Perry’s Home State

“You’ve got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don’t have healthcare and booing a service member in Iraq because they’re gay.”

Riese September 26, 2011 21 Comments
Politics + Activism

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?

Rose September 25, 2011 96 Comments
Politics + Activism

Maggie Gallagher Quits Being In Charge of NOM

Maggie Gallagher will step down as Board Chair of the National Organization for Marriage and be replaced by Dr. John Eastman.

Rachel September 23, 2011 23 Comments
Politics + Activism

What The DADT Repeal Looks Like: Marines Recruiting Gays In Tulsa

This is what a repeal of DADT looks like at a gay community center in Oklahoma.

Rachel September 22, 2011 15 Comments
Politics + Activism

Michele Bachmann Just As Completely, Totally Wrong About Vaccines As Everything Else

Bachmann’s completely incorrect, false, wrong, bogus and detrimental claims about vaccines can have a real lasting impact on public health. I feel angry about this.

Lizz September 21, 2011 37 Comments
Politics + Activism

Obama Tells All the Nations to Stand Up For Gay and Lesbian Rights Everywhere!

Obama name-drops gay rights in an address to the United Nations, one of a few admirable moves he’s made this week.

Riese September 21, 2011 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Bachmann’s Anti-Gay Fervor Contributes to Mid-Campaign Crisis Thing

Michele Bachmann to Jay Leno: “When I heard that I thought it was a mid-life crisis thing, ‘pray the gray away.’”

Riese September 20, 2011 45 Comments
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