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Shayne Oliver + Arca talk gay friendship and pure freedom
‘This is sensuality that is hypercharged, it’s amplified and erratic’ – the genre-twisting artist and Hood by Air designer on reaching collaborative catharsis with new music project Wench
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Italians rally against rights for gay couples
Italy is the last major country in Western Europe to not offer rights or recognition to same-sex couples
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Pinkwashed: Are young gays selling out to capitalism?
Doritos are gay, young Conservatives are twerking in the streets and Pride is sponsored by a bank – where did all the politics go?
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Hawaii Just Gave Two Veterans a Very Special Wedding | Care2 Causes
Late last month Hawaii's Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB) kicked off its bid to attract more same-gender couples to the islands by throwing a very special wedding for two young military veterans.
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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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An Age-Old Type of Fearmongering Descended on Texas
The repeal of Houston’s anti-discrimination law hinged on familiar fear-mongering ('protect the children') and an age-old fanaticism: misogyny.
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Alabama's top judge keeps trying to stop same-sex marriages in the state
Nearly a year after a federal court struck down Alabama's same-sex marriage ban, and more than six months since the US Supreme Court ended all same-sex marriage bans across the country, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore keeps trying to block same-sex couples from marrying in his state. In his latest move, Moore told the state's probate judges that they still can't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until the Alabama Supreme Court — which Moore oversees — says otherwise.
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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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Kids Of Gay Parents Speak Out To Show What Family Really Means
The Right still likes to cling to the idea that children of same-sex parents somehow suffer compared to nuclear families with a traditional mother and father. But they never seem to want to hear from the children themselves. Below, kids of gay p...
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The death of a fraudulent Jewish gay conversion organization
A therapist’s notes are not written to be seen by others, much less projected on a screen in a room full of strangers. But on a Thursday afternoon in June, Benjy Unger was in the witness box as notes from one of his therapy sessions were blown up on a monitor next to the jury. The goal of that counseling was to turn Unger from gay to straight.
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Here's The Internal Document The Salvation Army Doesn't Want You To See
‘Tis the season. In cities across the country, Salvation Army volunteers wearing red Santa hats and aprons are ringing bells and soliciting donations. But if you were already thinking twice before dropping your hard-earned coins into those little red coffers you may want to think a third time.
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Human Trafficker Who Forced Men To Have Sex For 18-20 Hours Per Day Gets 11 Years In Prison
A 25-year-old Hungarian man will spend the next 11 years in prison after being convicted of running a horrifying gay sex slave operation out of New York and Miami. Andrew Vass was sentenced this week to more than a decade behind bars for his part in an elaborate scheme in which he and two others lured young men from Hungary to the United States under false pretenses then forced them have sex on webcams and prostitute themselves to strangers for up to 20 hours a day for months on end.
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Carol and the Invisibility of Lesbian Culture
Todd Haynes’s adaptation of the classic novel reminds us how much of lesbian culture remains uncelebrated and unseen. By Frank Rich.
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B.E.E. - Michael Angelakos
Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos and Bret Easton Ellis discuss ideology vs. aesthetics, enduring mental illness in the public eye, being fueled by self-hatred and the perils of expressing negative opinions in corporate culture.
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France lifts ban on gay men as blood donors
France is lifting its ban on men who have sex with men from donating blood, the French health minister announced Wednesday. "Giving blood is an act of generosity, of citizenship, which cannot be conditioned to sexual orientation. While respecting complete patient safety, today we are ending a taboo and discrimination," the minister, Marisol Touraine, said in a speech.
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The Real Reason Straight Men Use the Word "Fag"
Why do so many young men use the word "fag?"
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Kenya Is Accused of Forcing Suspected Gay Men to Take HIV and Anal Tests
Kenyan officials have come under fire from LGBT activists in the country over a case where authorities allegedly forced two men to undergo HIV and anal testing to verify whether or not they were gay — considered a crime in Kenya that can land someone in jail for up to 14 years. The Nairobi-based National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHC) filed a lawsuit this week against a judge and police station in the small coastal town of Msambweni...
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Russia Poised to Criminalize Coming Out
Two years after Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a nationwide ban on so-called gay propaganda, conservative lawmakers are considering making that law even more punitive for LGBT people, calling for additional fines and jail time for those who dare to come out in public. The new bill is being drafted as an amendment to Russia's infamous ban on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations," which currently imposes...
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A Big Step Toward Ending "Cure Gay People" Therapy
Conversion therapy — the harmful and totally ineffective practice of therapists and counselors trying to turn LGBTQ individuals straight — is still alarmingly common. But, last week, the U.S. government released a report calling for the end of conversion therapy for all minors, nationwide.
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Meet the three gay men who want to get married and have kids together
A trio of Canadian men who are in a three-way relationship have caused a storm by saying they plan to have kids together.
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