Welcome to the first question and answer of our Parenting with PRIDE column. This will be a monthly feature here and we encourage YOU to email in your questions about parenting. We’d love to hear from you! I’m going to a baby shower for two women. Do lesbians have a thing against the traditional […]
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He’s removed all doubt. Anyone who may have been harboring a forlorn hope that Mitt Romney might revert to the persona he wore as Governor of Massachusetts can “fuhgeddaboudit,” as they used to say on Seinfeld. He’s not using that famous Etch-A-Sketch to shake up his newfound Tea Party allegiance; to the contrary, with
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After reading several facebook comments regarding this tweet from the Valley’s own Chris Colfer… We want to know what YOU think of it, comment below and let us know.
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I have been watching Pretty Little Liars. It’s a guilty pleasure. It’s trite, cliché, teenage nonsense. Teenage girls do not dress like that, nor should they. Nor should they date their young teachers, or run around town trying to catch killers. However, the show is like crack. Once you sit down and get sucked into
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We all have prejudices, bigotries, preferences, choices, and biases; some more – some less. All humans are raised with different views, different tastes, and different perceptions. What one does with all of these makes us “civilized” – the ability to form social connections to others of natures’ beings. In the world of LGBTQI, the community
Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen a variety of news items relevant to the status of gay, lesbian, bi & trans people. France and Ireland moved closer to the recognition of same-sex marriage. Anderson Cooper came out (much to the surprise of absolutely no one). In his decorous and moving statement, he acknowledged
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Nerd. Jock. Fag. Geek. Brain. Slut. Burnout. Bitch. Loser. Druggie. Freak. In high school, labels were applied as liberally as an emo’s eyeliner. Trying to pigeonhole individuals into a certain category seemed to be an all-encompassing hobby. Even if you were a hybrid, like a brainy loser, one label always won out over the rest.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. It seems like a good milestone to stop and pause in wonder at how amazing Twitter is, and how delightfully generous, loving, and healing
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Hear that deafening silence? That’s the sound of Equality California, the once highly regarded and legislatively active state LGBT lobbying organization, thinking about its next move. And thinking, and thinking, and thinking: the organization has become so inert, so ineffectual with only an interim executive director, Laurie Hasencamp, administratively holding down the fort that EQCA
