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The Danger at the Intersection of Street Harassment and Compulsory Heterosexuality

The first time I learned about street harassment, I was taught that only I could prevent it. This was about the same time that Smokey the Bear was telling me that only I could prevent forest fires and Captain Planet told me that the power was mine to save the Earth. The world was sure entrusting a lot to seven-year-old me.
The aforementioned logic about street harassment taught me that street…

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MTV’s “Faking It” Renewed For Season Two, Praise Lesbian Jesus

Listen, I know all you can think about right now is Orange Is The New Black, but remember how other (albeit inferior) TV shows exist? TV shows like MTV’s Faking It, a show that’s about, like, you know that thing that happens to lesbians in high school? How we strike up a really intense best-friendship with a straight girl who’s really into it? And we convince ourselves that friends is good,…

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It’s Time For People to Stop Using the Social Construct of “Biological Sex” to Defend Their Transmisogyny

Time and time again, transmisogynists and transphobes go back to that old excuse that they are jut standing up for the reality of “biological sex” when they spew their ignorance and hate. They say that no matter what a trans woman does, no matter what she believes, she’s still actually a man. Others cede the fact that trans women are women, but stop there and say “gender is what’s between your…

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Slut-Shaming Becomes Even Grosser Than You Thought With Bonus Classism

“‘Good Girls’: Gender, Social Class and Slut Discourse on Campus” is a new study showing that slut-shaming is used between women to reinforce social class. “Good Girls” reminds us that patriarchy is not only a tool for men, but a tool for women with other privileged identities to use against women with marginalized identities. “We are unconvinced that women would engage so enthusiastically in…

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“The Better Half” Webseries Makes Television Debut Tonight, Features Real Life Lesbian Feelings

Pivot TV has kicked off #takePRIDE month on the channel. They’ll be showing LGBTQ themed television and movies all month as part of the celebration and tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT, they’re premiering The Better Half. The lesbian comedy webseries originally appeared online in 2013 and is based on the life of actual couple Lindsay Hicks and Amy Jackson Lewis. In the show, writers and co-creators Hicks…

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Southern Baptist Minister Declares Himself Gay Affirming in Sermon, Gay Angels Sing

If the Southern Baptist Church is a bastion of conservative American culture, then that culture is following the rest of the country toward a more accepting view of homosexuality. This year, Pastor Danny Cortez led his church, New Heart Community Church in Los Angeles, through a process of becoming officially LGBT affirming
This is a distinct break from the teachings and constitution of the…

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Gallup And Everyone Else Wants to Know: Were You Born This Gay?

In a poll released on Wednesday, Gallup found that 42% of Americans believe homosexual people are born homosexuals, rather than becoming so due to factors such as upbringing and environment. 37% voiced the opposite opinion, and another 21% didn’t answer. Nobody asked me, but if they had, I’d have responded with some questions of my own: why are those the only options? How come you’re asking…

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2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie and More

The winners of the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards, including Alison Bechdel, Susan Choi, Nicole J. Georges, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Katherine V. Forrest, Imogen Binnie and others, were announced last night at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.
This year is the first that comics have had a category to themselves, though they’ve won in other categories previously. Calling Dr.…

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Novel Idea: What If We Actually Researched Whether Menstrual Products Are Safe to Use

Think about your favorite — or not so favorite — menstrual hygiene product commercial. Usually some racially ambiguous person who presumably menstruates floats across the screen in a lily white dress, enjoying their life until “Mother Nature” ruins everything. The protagonist loses all hope in ever smiling again now that their period has arrived. Luckily, some Playtex™, Kotex™, Always™, or…

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Going Beyond Going Down: Why Diverse Queer Sex On TV Matters

Abby: “I am almost to the end of the first season of Orphan Blackand one of the characters is gay — and I can’t tell you too much because I don’t wanna spoil it — and has gay sex. She just hooked up with a lady for the first time on the show. And another character on the show is a woman and has had sex with a man multiple times. And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally.…

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Laverne Cox is Amazing on the Cover of Time, Time’s Story Inside Not So Much

A month after being one of the top vote-getters in Time Magazine’s online poll for their annual “Person of the Year” issue and then being subsequently left completely out of that issue, actress and transgender rights activist Laverne Coxhas leapt completely past the idea of being one person in a giant list of the year’s most important people and has secured the entire cover for herself. This…

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Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games

As a scientist, deciding to pursue game design was not unlike coming out. All of sudden I had this new identity different from the one I assumed I’d follow since forever. Thrillingly, all my preferences aligned — I could pursue graphic design, teaching, and science — by making educational games. But I also felt self-doubt and fear of rejection. Still do.
I am a game designer, but am I a gamer?…

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Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual Is Single Again: What Does This Mean For You?

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Professional attractive person Evan Rachel Wood and unlikely-but-determined ballet dancer husband Jamie Bellhave reportedly split after two years of marriage. The couple met in 2005 while starring in Green Day’s video for “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” and wed in 2012. Their son, whose name has not been made available to the public, was born in July of 2013.…

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WNBA Makes Pro Sports History, Announces National LGBT Pride Platform

The WNBA has announced a national LGBT Pride platform, making them the first professional sports league to do so. The league’s 12 teams will integrate marketing, media, grassroots efforts, and social responsibility into the program which is sponsored by CoverGirl. It hopes to not only embrace members of the LGBT community, who have been longtime supporters of the league, but also combat anti-LGBT…

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