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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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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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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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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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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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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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Marriage Equality: Bring Your Family With You
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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Tearing Down the Walls
The story of the Stonewall Rebellion and the rise of the gay liberation movement. By Keegan O’Brien.
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Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders
It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe. By Pearson McKinney.
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How Voguing is saving young lives in Detroit
This [Mollie Mills] documentary unpacks the fierce subculture offering solace for queer people in one of America’s most dangerous cities. By Anna Cafolla.
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The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall
“Although the conflict at Compton’s was mostly ignored by the media, including publications run by the nascent gay community, 1966 would prove a major turning point in the battle for transgender civil rights, a year when cultural shifts aligned to begin improving the trans community’s access to healthcare and its relationship with law enforcement.” By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.
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The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz
Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's first drag superstars. By Hugh Ryan.
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