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    Coming Out To Beth

    JUNE 1, 2012 7:33AM

    By Bert Baruch Wylen


    Topics: acceptance, denial, homosexuality, courage, closet, truth, integrity, honesty, gay pride, coming out, lgbt, gay/lesbian

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1030 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    When it rains, it pours: NAACP now OK with same-sex marriage

    MAY 20, 2012 4:53PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: politics, family, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, william saletan, same-sex marriage, proposition 8, prop 8, president barack obama, politics, ohio, obama, national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, marriage, lgbt, lesbians, jesse jackson, human rights, hope, homophobia, hiv, george w. bush, gays, gay rights, gay community, fourteenth amendment, equality, equal rights, equal protection clause, civil rights, change, california, black homophobia, black homophobes, black community, bigots, bigotry, benjamin todd jealous, barack obama, al sharpton, aids

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 3443 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Has Obama tipped the scales towards gay marriage in Europe?

    MAY 10, 2012 9:49AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: david cameron, berlin, portugal, slovenia, poland, ukraine, belarus, bulgaria, britain, iceland, france, germany, lgbt, gay marriage, obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1495 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    One Small Step Backward, One Giant Leap Forward

    MAY 9, 2012 7:43PM

    By Isaiah Carter


    Topics: marriage equality, lgbt, p2, open call, ssm

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 908 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    North Carolina Shits the Bed

    MAY 8, 2012 3:11PM

    By John Saveland


    Topics: gay/lesbian, news, politics, north carolina, amendment one, gay marriage, lgbt, romney, obama, election, primary

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 4197 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    When "Traditional Values" had a Party, and Love Showed Up

    FEBRUARY 24, 2012 8:23AM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: lgbt, brite signal alliance, homophobia, homosexuality, freedom of speech, education, hate speech, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, education, protest

    • Editor's Pick
    • 53 Ratings
    • 4570 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    99%- Yes, Houston we have a Problem!

    OCTOBER 18, 2011 10:08AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: occupy, occupy america, occupy america, politics, protest, iraq, enviroment, racial, oprah winfrey, social security, medicare, jesse jackson, lgbt, obama, occupy movement, houston robertson, occupy wall street, ococcupy america, news, open+call, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 2086 Views
    • 91 Comments
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    Speaking of the Culture Wars

    OCTOBER 4, 2011 9:56PM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: salon, thomas frank, frank rich, ny times, reproductive rights, lgbt, belief/religion, family, feminism, gay/lesbian, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 930 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Hitting Some Hard Health Care Realities

    JUNE 26, 2011 3:42PM

    By EconomicExile


    Topics: mortgage, healthcare, lgbt, recovery, recession, economy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1411 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Unsaid (in an Irish family sort of way)

    APRIL 26, 2011 5:06AM

    By Aengus Carroll


    Topics: gay/lesbian, family, lgbt, glbt, aids, ireland, human rights, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1294 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    But what will people think?

    MARCH 23, 2011 9:32PM

    By megwc


    Topics: transgender children, lgbt, parenting, friends, neighbors, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2183 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Why guys love to hate Justin Bieber

    FEBRUARY 8, 2011 12:59PM

    By megwc


    Topics: lesbian, gay, parenting, middle school, new york times, gender expression, pop music, lgbt, justin bieber, gender roles

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1751 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    A boy as a girl

    JANUARY 18, 2011 12:09AM

    By megwc


    Topics: transgender child, lgbt, parenting, gender variant, transgender

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1366 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Dress for success

    JANUARY 11, 2011 8:30AM

    By megwc


    Topics: pink boy, gender variant, parenting, lgbt, child, transgender

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1872 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    My gay uncle in memoriam; or, Christmas cookies

    DECEMBER 20, 2010 2:23PM

    By megwc


    Topics: parenting, family, alcoholism, in memoriam, christmas, lgbt, transgender, gay

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1005 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    A different sort of faith

    DECEMBER 15, 2010 5:14PM

    By megwc


    Topics: adoption, china, parenting, family, transgender, lgbt

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1752 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Pink China

    DECEMBER 8, 2010 8:39PM

    By megwc


    Topics: china, adoption, parenting, lgbt, transgender child

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1870 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Mother May I

    DECEMBER 2, 2010 9:32AM

    By megwc


    Topics: china, adoption, parenting, lgbt, transition, child, transgender

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1110 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    How DADT Makes America Less Safe

    NOVEMBER 30, 2010 4:15PM

    By Rebecca Sarwate


    Topics: daniel choi, bradley manning, john mccain, lgbt, the pentagon, don't ask don't tell

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 2036 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Proud to Serve: 4 weeks, 10,167 miles. The faces behind DADT

    NOVEMBER 5, 2010 10:59AM

    By Patricia S.


    Topics: open+call, photography, jo ann santangelo, lgbt, proud to serve, the international center of photography, don't ask, don't tell, dadt, service women's action network, sergeant jen hogg, katherine miller, sue fulton, westpoint, army, veterans, military, lesbian, gay, transexual, bisexual, lt. col. fehrenbach, dan choi, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, lgbt center in manhattan, feminism, gay/lesbian, politics

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