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Heath and Home
Advances in technology are often heralded as labor-saving enhancements of our way of life. Yet the technology often seems to simply create avenues for even...
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The New Gay Way
Laura Varlas wasn't expecting the outpouring of responses to her blog post last April about lesbian business attire, what she dubbed ''lez casual.'' ''It was...
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Life in Real Time
The revolution came and it was blogged. Since the advent of personal blogs as an internet phenomenon, the new media format has literally changed the...
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From the Top
When John Flowers and his partner, David Muller, bought a small row house near Dupont Circle, the roof was one of the first projects they...
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Transgender vets face additional discrimination
”We did our time. What happened to us after we got out doesn’t have anything to do with whether we deserve care. We are aware...
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Barney Frank speaks out on Obama vs. McCain
”If Obama wins and we have a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, we will see legislation that will remove some of the...
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Lesbian kicked out of Federal building due to ‘Lesbian.com’ T-shirt
”As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven’t been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination … but this is just shocking.” Lapriss...
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Ban on gay adoptions & fostering broadened to affect all non-married parents in Arkansas
”Arkansas needs to affirm the importance of married mothers and fathers. We need to publicly affirm the gold standard of rearing children whenever we can....
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Talking street fashion and techniques with transgenders of NYC’s ‘sidewalk runway’
”I would describe it as ‘Take me.’ … My friends say my sense of style is bitch.” — Shawn Rachel, 28 ”Today is classic and...
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Study finds kink seems normal; Gays & lesbians more open to BDSM
”Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority…. People with...
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Obama’s non-support for gay marriage loses donation from gay media owner, Paul Colichman
I thought, ‘Get over yourself!’ I had literally written out a check to the Obama campaign. And then I saw him in...
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Preaching parents transformed by lesbian daughter’s suicide
”We and our entire lives changed as a result of Anna’s death…. After Anna came out, I think I took her spot in the closet.”...
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Some Mormons are gay and they want you to know it
”When I heard and saw the letter that the church leaders had read in sacrament meetings, I was appalled. So I said, ‘That’s it.’ I...
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Gay Austrialian diver, Matt Mitcham, wins gold at Olympics
“It’s going to take a while to sink in. My cheeks hurt from smiling. My face hurts from the chlorine. My legs are sore from...
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Religions joining for mass push against gay marriage in California
”This is a rising up over a 5,000-year-old institution that is being hammered right now. What binds us together is one common obsession: . ....
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‘Lala’ – China’s lesbians go public
”The major change is that, there is more information about lesbians now, and more means of communication.” Dr. Hu, a lesbian in China who is...
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‘Plastic’ explores the popularity of transsexual surgery in conservative Iran
”There was the sex change craze that started in Iran, and the fact that it was completely supported by the goverment, the Islamic government. I...
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Hallmark adds gay wedding cards
”It’s our goal to be as relevant as possible to as many people as we can.” Hallmark spokesperson, Sarah Gronberg Kolell, on the addition of...
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Cracking the Olympics
The Beijing Olympics are almost over, which means very soon there'll be no more televised sights of hunky men in skintight, skimpy, sports gear —...
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Knights of Columbus funnels $1.25 million into anti-gay marriage effort in California
”From the day we were founded 126 years ago, strengthening and protecting the family has always been central to the mission of the Knights of...
