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The “It’s Time” video promoting marriage equality and watched by hundreds of thousands across the globe has spurred an offshoot with a different plot but the same message. The new video, titled “Love is Love,” was posted Sunday. The creators say they were inspired by the original Australian video from GetUp! and its first-person camera […]
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The shockingly cruel letter below, from a father to his newly-out gay son, has been spreading like wildfire through social media. I knew I had to share it with you because it serves as a stark reminder of why the fight for LGBT equality and against religious extremism is so critical. Family Research Council and the
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A year later, Carol Anastasio and Mimi Brown still sound like lovestruck newlyweds. “We’re more in love now than we were before,” said Anastasio, 50. She and her partner were among the first gay couples to wed in New York last July. The lower East Side pair had been together more than 20 years before
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When I first met Alyssa, I thought she was my dreams made real. I could see no one else in the room. Her feminine shape and delicate facial features, her boyish haircut, lopsided smile, and large doe-like brown eyes had me from the moment I laid eyes on her. As I got to know her,
Eriq Escalon was raised in Clovis, he was tragiclly murdered·early Tuesday evening in the Diamond Heights district of San Francisco.·He was a member of the Concord Blue Devils Colorguard. The family also ordered 1,000 rainbow wristbands in his memory, and money raised from selling the wristbands will be used to set up a Blue Devils
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“‘The Constitution our son died for was intended to protect rights, not deny them.” Lori WilfahrtMemorial Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War.
Memorial Day Mourning Discrimination of Gay and Lesbian Americans Read More »
Children’s book author Maurice Sendak died in Connecticut Tuesday morning. He was 83. Longtime publisher Michael di Capua told the New York Times that Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke. Sendak, the author of several iconic books including Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen,and Higglety Pigglety Pop!, came out publicly in 2008. He
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A former bully reached out to me on Facebook, even going so far as to arrange a face-to-face meeting. She was one of several girls in elementary school who had harassed me about my weight, my sexuality, and my choice of friends. Jennifer was not the ringleader but simply one of a crew headed by
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She’s a strong and tall woman who embraces her femininity in tights, heels, and tightly curved tops. She is a born again Christian with light brown hair and those terribly blue eyes that cause her all the troubles with those boys. Boys. Boys. Boys. They are always a daunting task for those on the prowl
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Given the onslaught of hateful attacks on the LGBT community by the finatical religious right, I would like to share a link to a site thats focus is to heal and empower. http://www.new-wings.org/ The mission statement says it all: For centuries, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community has suffered soul-damaging condemnation due to
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