Results for: be the change
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Almost Famous: Xoe Wise
Chicago singer-songwriter with catchy charming tunes and deep feelings about brunch.
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Why Does Boston Have Two St. Patrick’s Day Parades? In A Word: Homophobia
It’s an exciting day for people across the Greater Boston region and Massachusetts – except for its LGBT citizens, apparently. Because even in the first state to gain marriage equality, there’s still discrimination, and one is in the city’s annual parade.
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Choosing Jonah: A Family History of Abortion, Choice and Love
Sometimes the gulf between my own experience and “typical” parents is the same as that between parents and non-parents. And yet, on a fundamental level it’s also the same joy and the same challenge that we all face.
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Briefly Noted: Underwear for Your Masculine Center
What makes “men’s” underwear exclusively for men? Is it still men’s underwear if I’m wearing it? Answers: a) absolutely nothing and b) no, sir.
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You Should Go: The Founding Meeting of the Queer Baltimore Young Adult Coalition with Dapper Jill
“I’m not creating this thing, I’m facilitating the birth. If anything I’m this thing’s midwife. It’s gonna be messy.”
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From England to New England: This is a Gay Marriage Round-Up Post
Marriage equality bills make progress from the UK House of Commons to the Rhode Island state legislature.
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Educar, No Lucrar: Students In Chile Demanding Change
”We do not want to improve the actual system; we want a profound change – to stop seeing education as a consumer good, to see education as a right where the state provides a guarantee.”
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The 2013 Academy Awards Liveblog and Open Thread
It’s the 85th annual Academy Awards! Let’s cross our fingers, ooh and ahh at tuxedos and make fun of everyone!
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Lez Liberty Lit #18: Lesbian Literary Detective Work Is Overrated
Topics include finding quality queer books, the Pultizers, Maya Angelou, a big week at the Lesbrary, SO MANY EVENTS and what we’ve been reading.
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Everybody Should Come Out, Or Not
Someone thinks Margaret Cho outed John Travolta, Fastrack thinks kids should come out, Ángeles Álvarez thinks lesbian politicians should come out, and now that Jason Collins is out, Andy West thinks everyone should come out.
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Anti-Gay Groups Going Broke For Breaking Our Hearts
With groups that oppose gay marriage finding it hard to find money to do so, the tide may be more decisively turning in gay rights’ favor.
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Straddler On The Street: Dhati
This post includes an adorable photo of Dhati as a small child, along with some words of wisdom about coming out, not coming out, and crushing on Korean pop stars.
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Straddler On The Street: Charrise
Charrise is the Miami-based Straddler who organized the Audre Lorde documentary event we told you about last week, and today she’s chatting with us about law school, empowering youth and all of her favorite things.
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Idol Worship: Mabel Hampton Is Gay History
Mabel Hampton preserved our story when it was first starting. Now I wanna tell hers to you.
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Sunday Funday Found A Gayby in a Hopeless Place
Would you adopt a baby you found in the subway? Would you like a donut?
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Almost Famous: Mary Lambert
You’ve already fallen in love with Mary Lambert’s voice, you just may not know it — she’s the female part on “Same Love,” the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis anthem for same sex marriage that we all fell in love with last year.
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Straddler On The Street: Ketzel
Ketzel wrote to us and said she’d like to see more teenage queers in the media, so we went ahead and accepted her offer to interview her, a real live teenage queer. We chatted about how she’s choosing a college, feminism, her love of horseback riding and the biggest misconceptions grownups have about teens.
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Obama Wants Same-Sex Immigration Reform, Congress Prefers to Just Argue About It Forever
A Canadian’s take on how backwards the struggle to get immigration reform for same-sex couples has turned out to be.
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Style Thief: How to Dress Like Bette Porter
A fashion ode to the ultimate power dyke. We’re stripping down Bette Porter.
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Am I On A Date Or Are We Just Two Pretty Girls Hanging Out?
“There was so much fucking estrogen and so many ladies who fist other ladies in that building, my ovaries tried to reproduce asexually.”