“Oh my God, you are such a slut.” Has someone ever said that to you? And what were you doing when they did? I’ve heard it plenty of times, and usually for no valid reason. “Slut” is one of those words that are continuously overused, like “diva” or “extreme;” the actual definition gets lost […]
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
Join us on World AIDS Day, Tuesday, December 1st for the AIDS March & Rally in the Tower District. As we did last year, we’ll start at the Fresno LGBT Community Center and march through the Tower District, in solidarity for World AIDS Day. We’ll end up in front of the Tower Theater for a
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I used to have an action figure – okay, it was a doll – of the Six-Million-Dollar Man. What’s that? You say you don’t know who that is? Um, he’s kinda like a cyborg, I guess. Like the Terminator or a Cylon. Sort of. But a good guy. Anyway, he was a dude who had
Suddenly, in my morning fugue I hear a loud knock at the front door. Several more loud knocks jolt me from my half-sleep to half-coffee-awake morning ritual in front of the desktop in the “Goose office.” This is 10 a.m., which makes no sense on a weekday morning with a working bell door. I drag
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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.
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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
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The best use of three minutes… Sasheer Zamata explains just how problematic privilege is:
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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
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