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The Revival of Segregation in Mississippi
My father grew up in the pre-integration South, and when I was young, he would occasionally tell me stories about the horrors of segregation… By Mark Joseph Stern.
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Girl
Boundaries of Gender: Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask. By Alexander Chee. (Mar. ’15)
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Kissing
“During those weeks it rained so much that the L.A. River was full. Walking back to your house from Claudia’s, you went two blocks up Gage Avenue to the river and watched from the bridge, its low concrete railing the only thing keeping you from the froth kissing the lip of the river bed.” By Vickie Vértiz.
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Girl Scouts Reject American Family Association Campaign And Welcome Trans Girls
"There is not one type of girl. Every girl’s sense of self, path to it, and how she is supported is unique." - Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Girl Scouts USA
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Queer Storylines Are Yesterday’s News. Meet TV’s Asexual and Intersex Characters.
A few weeks ago, after an evening feasting on the delights stored on my TiVo, it struck me that every show I’d watched—Benched, Jane the Virgin,Glee, The Mindy Project, and Marry Me—had featured at least one queer character. My attitude to TV representation of the LGBTQ nation is and always will be “more...
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Know Your Rights: Trans People Quietly Gain Widespread Federal Protections
Over the past ten years, quietly, trans people have been securing Federal rights in employment, education, health care and housing. Some of these have come in the form of guidance from the Obama administration, and some from favorable court rulings; taken together they’ve created a landscape where discrimination on the basis of gender identity has gone, in a short period, from unquestioned to illegal.
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How Gay Liberation Became a Family Values Movement
[E]quality is not liberation. Paradoxically, even as gay concerns become increasingly mainstream and everyone from major corporations, to the English Defence League, to apartheid Israel scramble to feel the benefits of positive pink PR, we are hardly closer to liberating sexuality from the bridle of conservative/religious moralism.
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Preacher says Pokemon 'turned teens gay'
A US mega church whose leader’s preaching appears regularly on New Zealand television claims Pokemon was designed to “turn” youths gay. The Creflo Dollar Ministry has reportedly released a ‘study’ claiming teens of the late 80s and 90s “had their sexuality warped by Ash and his fruity friends.”
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Marriage Equality: Bring Your Family With You
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IBM warns Louisiana over 'religious freedom' bill
IBM has sent a letter to the governor of Louisiana warning that a pending religious freedom bill would create a hostile environment for the tech company's employees.
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The terrible message Florida is sending to LGBT foster care youth
‘Florida dislikes gays so much they’re willing to take it out on the kids, and in a way this is worse than the Indiana discrimination bill because it’s not adults vs. adults, it’s kids who are sitting in the system who are going to lose out on a home.”
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NSFW Actress Laverne Cox Bares all for Allure Mag
Thanks to everyone at @allure magazine for making me feel so comfortable taking off my clothes for the camera for your May issue. #NormanJeanRoy you're a genius. #CelebrateYourBody #TransIsBeautiful #OITNB @oitnb #BodiesThatMatter shout out to By @hungvanngo "Beautiful actress @LaverneCox bares it all for @allure magazine May 2015 photographed by #NormanJeanRoy Editor
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Doubtful of getting fair hearing, Maine senator withdraws religious freedom bill.
Opponents and the media 'poisoned' public discussion of the legislation, David Burns says, a day after it was revealed that three Republican leaders were co-sponsors.
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High Suicide Risk, Prejudice Plague Transgender People
A staggering 41 percent of transgender people in the United States have attempted to commit suicide, according to a recent survey.
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Hillary Clinton To Supreme Court: Grant Same-Sex Couples 'Constitutional Right' To Marry
Hillary Clinton has weighed in strongly on same-sex marriage and is urging the Supreme Court to support equality.
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Autistic and Queer: Coming Out on the Spectrum - AfterEllen
What it's like to date when you're an autistic queer woman.
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'Bathroom surveillance' bills criticized for targeting transgender people in U.S.
Amid the national uproar over "religious freedom" legislation that critics say permits discrimination against gay people, there is also growing controversy over bills criticized for being "anti-transgender." Lawmakers have proposed such bills in at least 12 states around the United States so far this year, ranging from Massachusetts to Oklahoma.
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The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The Self-Described Queer, East Asian Disabled Person Devoted to Defending Anyone on the Margins
Lydia Brown was born in Suzhou, China. As a one-year-old, she was adopted and brought to live in Melrose, Massachusetts, where the population is more than 90 percent white.
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Wiccans say Indiana religious freedom law opens the door to polygamy, nude rituals at the Capitol
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed into law by Indiana Governor Mike Pence last week has found support from a most unusual source — practicing Wiccans.
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Barney Frank says people are happier with gay marriages than with Congress. He’s right.
Support for one has gone up; support for the other, down.
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