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Logo Won't Commit To Stop Airing Transphobic Slurs After “Drag Race” Backlash
Insensitive language used in a recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race has enraged the trans community. Logo TV/World of Wonder A March 17 episode of RuPaul's Drag Race has sparked a backlash from the...
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LGBT Housing Non-Discrimination Bill Killed By Louisiana Lawmakers
It will remain legal to deny housing to LGBT people in Louisiana. A bill barring housing discrimination failed Monday. AP Photo A House Commerce Committee voted on Monday to kill a bill introduced by...
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OkCupid Urges Firefox Users To Switch Browsers Over New CEO's LGBT Rights Stance
“OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.” Users attempting to access the...
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There Was A Same-Sex Wedding On Television Set To A Musical, And It Really...
Towards the end you didn’t actually care that it was a musical, either. So there was this show on British TV last night. That's right. musical wedding to celebrate the fact that same-sex couples in...
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Gay Troop Leader Kicked Out Of Boy Scouts, Believes He's First Removed Since...
Geoff McGrath believes he is the first openly gay Scoutmaster to be removed since the BSA’s controversial ballot ruling last year that allowed gay youth — but not gay adults — to participate....
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Photographing A Year In India's Queer "Kothi" Community
Photographer Candace Feit has spent the last year documenting the lives of a community of people who call themselves “Kothi” in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Candace Feit The term "Kothi"...
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"I Don’t Feel Death Coming / I Feel Death Going": 3 Poems By James Baldwin
Here are three poems excerpted from Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems , out today from Beacon Press . Happy National Poetry Month ! REX USA/Sten Rosenlund No, I don't feel death coming. I feel death...
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11 Things I Learned Being Killed Off On "Scandal"
This is what it feels like when you learn that creator Shonda Rhimes is going to have your character be brutally murdered and finally come to terms with what happened. Dan Bucatinsky won the 2013 Emmy...
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This Beyoncé-Inspired Ode To In-N-Out Burger Is Going To Give You All The...
“I just wanna give you them buns you like – fresh cut fries you like.” You probably watched the glorious "Dunkin Love" and thought to yourself, "This is the only Beyoncé and fast food parody I'll ever...
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Mississippi Approves Religious Freedom Bill, Governor Expected To Sign It...
The Mississippi bill is the first of many varying “religious freedom” bills introduced in several states this year to advance to a governor since a more expansive bill was vetoed by Arizona Gov. Jan...
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Activists Say U.S. Isn't Sending A Strong Enough Message On Uganda's Anti-Gay...
“There is a sense among the Ugandan political class that these are petty threats,” said one Ugandan human rights activist. A U.S. team is headed to the country to review aid. Ugandan President Yoweri...
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There Is Now A Lesbian-Only Cemetery In Germany
Germany’s first burial area for lesbians will open this weekend in Berlin. The group behind the project claims, “There is no reason to be buried anonymously anymore and like everyone else.” A...
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The Pope's Tone Softens — But The Vatican Is Still Fighting LGBT Rights...
The battleground is the United Nations. “Today, the nature of the family is confused by so many … It is scandalous,” said the Holy See’s representative to the U.N. amid negotiations last month in New...
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Definitive Proof That Carrie Brownstein Is Not Of This Earth
No one woman should have all that power. Carrie Brownstein is one of the most magical, whimsical, and perfect creatures on our small planet. Stephen Lovekin / Getty Dare I say it...too perfect?...
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To Body Mod Away From Brownness And Back
Learning to be brown and bearded in Brooklyn. I grew up in a small Texas city, where my white peers called me a monkey. They told me that Indians grow our body hair earlier because we are closer to...
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After Outrage, Nebraska Official Allows High School Student To Perform Gender...
The Nebraska School Activities Association had originally asked state speech champion Michael Barth to remove “controversial” gender identity content from his poetry program before appearing on a...
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Federal Judge Rules Existing Civil Rights Law Can Protect Gay People From Job...
Peter TerVeer, a gay man, sued the Library of Congress in 2012. The federal trial court judge hearing his case says TerVeer can sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. loc.gov WASHINGTON — A new...
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EU Ambassador "Very Close" To Deal With Uganda On Anti-Gay Law, Won't...
“We do not try to buy African acceptance for European or universal values through our development cooperation,” said Ambassador Kristian Schmidt. Facebook: eudeluganda / Via Facebook: eudeluganda...
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16 Books That Will Get You Laid
Is that a book in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us? BuzzFeed It's officially spring. That means the Michelin Man outerwear is coming off, and hopefully much more than that if you heed the...
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30 Years Later, Cyndi Lauper Is Still So Unusual
Three decades after the release of her debut album She’s So Unusual , Cyndi reflects on the album that made her an icon. Photo by Annie Leibovitz/ Courtesy of Sony Legacy She's So Unusual was a...
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