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Win Tickets to JERSEY BOYS!

“Oh what a night” it will be on Oct. 28 when the national tour of “Jersey Boys” swaggers into the Saroyan Theatre.  Now’s your chance to see the show for free! Three lucky winners will each receive a pair of opening-night tickets. Enter to win HERE. JERSEY BOYS is coming to Fresno, October 28th – November […]

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I didn’t think I deserved to be happy and HIV positive: by C.L. Frederick

Originally seen on TALKHILLCREST – contributing author Internationally known male model and HIV awareness activist C.L. Frederick I used to think that gay men who acquired HIV got exactly what they deserved; that was until I myself tested positive.  I knew very few openly positive gay men.  Those that I was aware of were the social outcasts,

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Marriage Equality USA Launches New Interactive Maps

Knowledge is power! With our new, interactive marriage equality maps, you can instantly find out what you need to know – an overall picture of the movement in addition to court cases, legislation, ballot initiatives and current polling! Our maps are divided into 5 categories: State of the States (the current status regarding marriage equality

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Drag Queens Force Facebook to Back Down

Facebook changed directions on its “real names” policy yesterday in response to continued and blistering criticism from drag queens and the threat of mass defections to Ello and other services. Think Progress reports: Facebook officially apologized Wednesday for enforcing its “real name” policy for users against drag queens and other members of the LGBT community.

Supreme Court Will Not Hear Any Same-Sex Marriage Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court has just officially turned down all of the same-sex marriage cases it was presented. Here’s why this is good news. The U.S. Supreme Court this morning began its fall session, and in a stunning development announced it will not take up any of the same-sex marriage cases from the five states

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After Transgender Girl Fined By School, Boys Wear Skirts in Protest

My favorite story of the week: Nine days after transgender student Maria Muniz was fined by school officials for wearing a skirt, a group of her Colegio Pedro II classmates decided to stage a protest: both male and female students would all wear skirts on the same day. Soon after their demonstration an ecstatic Muniz

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Supreme Court Could Choose a Marriage Equality Case Today

Today is the first day the US Supreme Court could actually choose a case or cases in the marriage equality fight this year. NBC News reports: The justices, who will meet in a closed-door conference on Monday, will consider whether to hear any of three same-sex marriage lawsuits during the next term, which officially starts

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US Supreme Court Will Look at All 7 Pending Marriage Equality Cases

The US Supreme Court has asked the petitions be ready for all seven marriage quality cases that have reached the court. Scotus Blog reports: Matching the speed of lawyers and lower courts in handling the same-sex marriage controversy, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set the stage for its first look at all of the pending

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Why Don’t the LGBT and African American Communities Stand Together?

Matthew was tied to a fence in rural Wyoming after being pistol-whipped and tortured — left to die. The moment we heard about his death, long before it was ever classified as a hate crime, in the very pits of our stomachs we knew that’s exactly what it was. But some voices, apparently unfazed by

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Wikipedia Bars Congressional Staffers from Making Changes After Trans-Phobic Edits

After a series of incidents where an unknown congressional staffer or staffers made trans-phobic edits to Wikipedia pages, the organization has blocked them from future changes. Towleroad.com reports: It’s impossible to know whether the edits are coming from one or multiple users, but the changes come from an IP address, 143.231.249.138, that has repeatedly been