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A new poll has found that the majority of Americans are satisfied with the current acceptance of the gay community. A record high of 60% of the US say they are happy with the level of acceptance of gays and lesbians in the country. However, 16% of Americans want to see more acceptance – while a […]
One of the most prominent stains on the reputation of the much-mythologized Reagan administration was its response, or lack of response, to the AIDS crisis as it began to ravage American cities in the early and mid-1980s. President Reagan famously (though, not famously enough) didn’t himself publicly mention AIDS until 1985, when more than 5,000
The online world collectively lost its mind this week over the fact that a little boy was starring in a Barbie commercial for the first time ever. “SO fierce!” he says to the camera as he hands the doll her tiny designer purse.
James Pittman faced discrimination because he was gay—that, nobody denies. As an employee at Cook Paper Recycling Corp. in Missouri, Pittman was subject to vile homophobic harassment: Employees called him a “cocksucker,” asked whether he had AIDS, mocked him for being gay and having a boyfriend, and ridiculed him when they broke up. Then Cook Paper
The best use of three minutes… Sasheer Zamata explains just how problematic privilege is:
I have said this a time or three previously, but it bears repeating: The longer I work with computers and electronics, the more e-mail looks like the old “snail mail” stuff. In other words, the more it seems that e-mail I send out to people (or they send to me) “bounces” for this or that
In honor of National Coming Out Day (October 11) and #SpiritDay (October 15), this post examines how some highly-public moments for the LGBT community affected support for this movement and the rate at which people came out on Facebook. Examining aggregated, de-identified information about people in the U.S. on Facebook, we look at the total
October 9-11 YOUR TRUE GENDER CONFERENCE 2015 Your True Gender is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the general public with an educational experience on Transgender awareness and issues. The Your True Gender Conference 2015’s mission is to educate and guide individuals of all ages on their transition journey (whatever that may be for each
In 1961 KQED produced what is perhaps the first known documentary about homosexuality in the United States called “The Rejected.” It’s been lost – until now. The film is hardly a flattering portrayal of the LGBTQ community. It frequently refers to homosexuality as a “problem” and the documentary is peppered with other derogatory words such
