Results for: be the change
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Obama’s ‘Small Victories’ for LGBTs This Week: Is It Change We Can Believe In?
The Obama Administration is making small steps towards helping the LGBT community with the Shepard Act & new initiatives from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services. Also; Dan Choi gives great interview to the Metro Weekly – with tales of a childhood spent praying “Jesus, make me pop a boner for Michelle Pfeiffer, in Jesus’ name, amen!”
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The Bra Issue: Queer Fashion Guide For Various Shapes, Sizes and Gender Expressions
What the f-ck am I supposed to do with these boobs? Bras, binding and more with special contributions from Butch Ladyman Julie Goldman and Bevin of Queer Fat Femme.
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International Transgender Day of Remembrance: We Will Win the Coming Revolutions
Yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. So today we remember, but also look forward. Also: Queer As Folk/Glee, Harry Potter!, Anne Hathaway, Pretty Little Liars, queer youth, and zombies!
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Lesbian Walks Into an Army Recruitment Office to Re-Enlist, Gets Bombarded with Homophobia
Gay rights activist and “Beaver Bunch” star AJ went down to re-enlist in the U.S. Army yesterday. This is her first hand account of the hate speech she witnessed in the army recruitment office in Long Beach, California.
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So, How F*cked Are We, Exactly? Let’s Talk About the Midterm Elections.
Making sense of the election results the day after: how much we lost last night, what it means to have lost, and how hard we’re going to have to work to win it back.
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“Gay-Friendly” Target Gives $150K to Anti-Gay Republican’s Supporters
Target recently donated $150,000 to a group that supports anti-gay Republican Tom Emmer. Vote with your dollars, sign change.org’s petition, or both!
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RENT Returns to Off-Broadway: No Day But Today To Psychoanalyze Our Queer Attachment to RENT
RENT is being revived Off Broadway in June 2011 and Riese has feelings about it, Ryan Murphy is figuring out the Kurt/Blaine sitch, Queen Latifah hovers around #ItGetsBetter, and the making of Pink’s new video.
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Morning After: America Reckons With Itself, Giffords is “Able to Communicate”
Congresswoman Giffords is getting better, Sarah Palin’s people say those crosshairs weren’t supposed to be “targets” necessarily, meet the gay intern who saved Giffords life and more updates on the Tragedy in Tuscon.
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Listling With Minimal Commentary: Gawker and its Satellite Sites, Ranked
Did you even know Jalopnik existed? Neither did we.
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Everybody Must Sue DOMA: Lesbian Activist Widow & Gay Couples File Suits
Edith Windsor had to pay crippling estate taxes when her wife died as if they were strangers because the federal government didn’t recognize them as being married. Now she’s suing on the basis that DOMA “effectively creates a tax on being gay.” Meanwhile two other lawsuits have been filed against DOMA by a Boston-based gay advocacy group. Are lawsuits the future of the gay rights movement?
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Portia de Rossi on Oprah: Read a F*cking (Lesbian) Book, Perhaps Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi walks Oprah through the eating disorders she developed as a result of being a teen model and the stress of hiding her sexuality as she climbed the Hollywood ladder. Her story is universal, whether you are gay or have ever been on a diet.
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DADT Repeal Stalled In Continued Push Towards National Mediocrity
How grim has the future of a DADT repeal become in the new, Republican future? Kinda grim.
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26-Year Old Gay Youth Activist Joseph Jefferson Kills Himself in Brooklyn
26-year-old Joseph Jefferson was a gay youth activist and an inspiring human being. Now he’s dead.
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Dan Choi is People
How far is our group from that fever pitch of anger and refusal to wait any longer that brings things –and people like Dan Choi — to a boil? It’s the most painful point of all. But also, potentially, the most sad and the most powerful. A look at Dan Choi’s Village Voice cover story, “Bad Lieutenant.”
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The PP & Me: Why We All Need Planned Parenthood
I’ve been going to Planned Parenthood for thirteen years, which is probably my longest relationship with anything, ever. I’m not ready to give that up — and you shouldn’t be, either.
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Glee 214 Recap: Blame It On the Alcohol, For Real
This week we all learned about what can happen if you drink too much. For example this recap.
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Del City High School, Accused of Discrimination, Actually LOVES Lesbians
Remember when Del City High School students Kelsey Hicks and Melissa McKenzie said they were being discouraged from graduating because they’re gay? Yeah, that story isn’t really adding up.
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How to Smell Good 101: Cologne & Perfume Guide for Queers
Wanna smell like a really rich man? Wanna smell like a flower? Wanna smell like Julie Goldman or Deanne Smith? Presenting a cornucopia of smell-good advice for peoples of varied gender identities!
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10 Days of Top 10s: 10 Things That Need You Really Bad
This shit don’t pay for itself.
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Movie Review: ‘Room in Rome’ Features Lesbian Sex and a Bunch of Weirdo F*cked Up Shit
Room in Rome looked really good in theory — two naked girls having sex for an entire movie — but in practice, it was totally weird. TOTALLY WEIRD.