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31 Big Brands Selling Gay Apparel For Pride, Vaguely Ranked By Semi-Scientific Criteria

Tis the season to celebrate Pride by wearing rainbow gradient t-shirts that let the world know that love is love, love wins, pride unites, equality wins, love makes a family, it’s all love, we need more love, everybody is free to love and love unites!!!

By Riese| June 17, 2019 | 24 Comments
Fashion/Style

22 Brands Selling LGBT Pride Apparel In 2018, Ranked By Highly Subjective Criteria

‘Tis the season for various companies to throw rainbows on their products in exchange for our hard-earned gay cash! Who’s making cute stuff? Who’s donating to LGBTQ+ non-profits and how much? Who partnered with actual LGBTQ+ people to promote their wares? Let’s rank.

By Riese| June 13, 2018 | 23 Comments
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Why I’m Saying No To Playing (and Attending) NYC Pride™ This Year

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it did: “I am hoping to fill the stage with artists who are willing to donate 20 minute sets.”

By Mal Blum| June 13, 2017 | 38 Comments
Fashion/Style

17 Brands Sporting Gay Pride Apparel For 2017, Vaguely Ranked By Integrity

What a time to be a queer person who wears clothing and goes shopping!

By Riese| June 7, 2017 | 38 Comments
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Top 12 Corporations Who Lured Us In With Their LGBT Ads in 2015

The 1% really pulled on our heartstring with these ones.

By KaeLyn| December 18, 2015 | 38 Comments
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Senate Fails to Override Hobby Lobby Decision, So Instead You Get This Clarification

It specifies that if your employer is a for-profit company who wants to tell you that Jesus knows best what you can and can’t do with your reproductive system, it must notify you if it is going to take away your birth control.

By Maddie| July 21, 2014 | 2 Comments
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HRC’s New Campaign in the South Wants to Change “Hearts and Minds,” Not Much Else

In a region known for being socially conservative and heavily influenced by faith communities, HRC’s Project One America seems like a much-needed advancement for LGBT rights in the region. But is the HRC prepared to help the South, an area with a long history of struggles fueled by racism from colonization to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement?

By Yvonne| April 30, 2014 | 15 Comments
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Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

In a surprise turn of events, Guinness announced on Sunday that it will be pulling sponsorship from New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Monday, in support of LGBT groups. It joins Heineken and Sam Adams, who had earlier pulled their sponsorship from New York and Boston parades respectively.

By Laura Mandanas| March 17, 2014 | 15 Comments
News + Politics

We Have Corporations To Thank For the Veto of Arizona’s Anti-Gay SB 1062

And it’s hard to know how to feel about it.

By Cara| March 7, 2014 | 17 Comments
News + Politics

The Problem With The Reaction to the Reaction to Coke’s “America the Beautiful” Commercial

It’s easy to be enraged by these kind of tweets and statuses but it’s really just lazy journalism that obscures the real issues.

By Yvonne| February 3, 2014 | 37 Comments
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Team Pick: Buycott Helps You Save The World and Support Pro-Gay Companies While You Shop

Because I’m perpetually spending my last dollar and I want to know exactly where it goes.

By Cara| May 17, 2013 | 5 Comments
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I’m Just Here for the Food: Figuring Out What’s Okay to Eat for the Gays

I’m just here for the food, but apparently everyone else is here for the fight.

By Kristen| August 9, 2012 | 24 Comments
Business + Work

Gays Fight To Enjoy Shitty Fast Food In Good Conscience, Which Is Impossible

The problematic aspect of the discourse around Chick-fil-A is that it isolates the anti-gay rhetoric and investments as its sole transgression against the queer community.

By Riese| July 20, 2012 | 80 Comments
News + Politics

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.

By Vanessa| July 16, 2012 | 21 Comments
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JCPenney Gets Even Gayer With Super-Gay Father’s Day Ad

One Million Moms got really pissed about Ellen DeGeneres — imagine how they’re gonna feel about These Two Dads!

By Riese| May 31, 2012 | 38 Comments
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You’re Driving Me Mad, Men: 8 Commercials I Hate So Hard Right Now

This post is SO ten seconds ago.

By Riese| March 25, 2012 | 68 Comments
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End Times Approach For LGBT Newsweekly, Gay Bookstore and Feminist Bookstore

Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.

By Carmen| December 29, 2011 | 8 Comments
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People Pissed Off About Not Getting What They Wanted For Christmas #FML

“I hate how my mom has to ruin christmas by getting everyone stupid gifts..where the hell is the iphone i asked for?! bitch!”

By Riese| December 27, 2011 | 128 Comments
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Southwest Kicks Leisha Hailey Off Plane For Kissing Her Girlfriend, Starts Internet Sh*tstorm

GLAAD’s official airline Southwest claims their decision to kick Alice off the airplane was motivated by “behavior and not gender.” But we’re not buying it — and neither is Shane or Adam Lambert or everyone on twitter.

By Riese| September 26, 2011 | 117 Comments
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General Mills and RE/MAX Deny Claims About Their Advertising on Pretty Little Liars

Two can keep a secret if one of them is General Mills

By Rachel| September 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
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Your College Tuition Is Too Damn High

At this rate, banks and the government will own everyone’s first born children.

By Laura| August 30, 2011 | 84 Comments
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