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Tennessee Senate Passes Bill That’ll Let Gay Kids Get Bullied Because “Religious Freedom”

Tennessee Senate Passes Bill That’ll Let Gay Kids Get Bullied Because “Religious Freedom”

Yesterday the Tennessee State Senate passed SB 1793/HB 1547 on a 32-0 vote, and it is expected that Republican governor Bill Haslam will sign the bill, which was initially approved 90-2 by the house, into law. According to the ACLU, this bill — which claims to be an effort to “protect religious freedom” in public schools, despite the fact that religious freedom was enshrined in…

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Idaho Campaigns Look to Protect LGBTQ People From Discrimination, Bigots Look to Stop Them

Idaho Campaigns Look to Protect LGBTQ People From Discrimination, Bigots Look to Stop Them

Last June, after months of debate and stalemates, the City Council in Pocatello, Idaho voted4-2 to pass an LGBT Non-Discrimination Ordinance, making it the sixth city in the state to do so in the last four years. Things were looking up for Pocatellans, who live in a state where there is no legal protection from being fired or denied housing because a person is gay or transgender. However, a…

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The Journalistic Quest to Write An Accurate Story About Bisexuality

The Journalistic Quest to Write An Accurate Story About Bisexuality

The New York Times doesn’t have a shining history when it comes to respectful and accurate reporting on bisexuality; sometimes it needs to be reminded by its readers that bisexuals exist, sometimes it writes about flawed studies that question the existence of bisexuals, or writes about “same-sex experimentation” and “lesbians until graduation”  without presenting bisexuality as feasible…

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Join Janet Mock, Me and Other Trans Women Writers in a Women’s History Month Google+ Hangout!

Join Janet Mock, Me and Other Trans Women Writers in a Women’s History Month Google+ Hangout!

Janet Mock, trans activist and author of the New York Times bestselling book Redefining Realness has gathered up a great group of trans women writers to celebrate Women’s History Month, talk about our craft, and interact with all of you this Wednesday, March 26! In on this conversation will be Toni Newman, Ryka Aoki, Janet Mock and me! It’s such a great honor for me to be included along with…

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We Won A Thing: Michigan Judge Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

During the first week of March, Michigan watched a two-week trial meant to decide whether the state would continue to uphold its ban against same-sex marriage. Today, Judge Bernard Friedman declared the ban unconstitutional. There’s been no stay of the ruling (like the one that kept California’s couples from marrying after Prop 8 was repealed) officially issued, although Michigan Attorney…

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‘Orange is the New Black’ Panel Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Info at PaleyFest

‘Orange is the New Black’ Panel Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Info at PaleyFest

On Friday, several cast and crew members from the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black took to the stage at New York’s PaleyFest to talk about how Season One has changed their lives and a few things that we can look forward to in this summer’s Season Two.

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One of the things that fans love (or at least one of the things I love) about the show is how we get to see backstories of…

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Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

In a surprise turn of events, Guinness announced on Sunday that it will be pulling sponsorship from New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Monday, in support of LGBT groups. It joins Heineken and Sam Adams, who had earlier pulled their sponsorship from New York and Boston parades respectively.

The controversy this year began when organizers of South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade once…

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Here’s How NYC Public Schools Plans To Better Support Their Trans* Students

Here’s How NYC Public Schools Plans To Better Support Its Trans* Students

New York City Department of Education has implemented new guidelines for schools to support transgender students. With 1.1 million students, NYC is the largest public school system in the country, and has a lot of influence setting standards for how other big school systems and states support trans* students. “They’re taking a step in the right direction,” said Octavia Lewis, educational…

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BREAKING: Father of Murdered Texas Lesbian Arrested In Connection With Deaths

BREAKING: Father of Murdered Texas Lesbian Arrested In Connection With Deaths

Galveston area police arrested James Larry Cosby in connection with the murder of his daughter Britney Crosby and her partner Crystal Jackson. He is being charged with two counts of tampering with evidence in connection with the two deaths.

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ABC News affiliate, KTRK in Houston reports that according to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, it appears the murders of the two…

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Pics From Season 2 of Orange Is The New Black Are Here! Hot Damn!

Pics From Season 2 of Orange Is The New Black Are Here! Hot Damn!

Orange is the New Black isn’t returning with Season 2 until June 6, but thanks to People, we now have a bunch of brand new sneak peek images of all of our favorite fictional inmates! Where last season focused mainly on Piper and how she was adjusting to prison life, Taylor Schilling told Peoplethat this season will be a little different, “The beauty of this show is how we straddle the line…

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CrossFit Bans a Trans Woman From Competing With Other Women, Is Stuck In The Medical Past

CrossFit Bans a Trans Woman From Competing With Other Women, Is Stuck In The Medical Past

Chloie Jonsson was a personal trainer and CrossFit athlete hoping to compete in the upcoming CrossFit Games. Now, she’s suing the company for $2.5 million on grounds of “discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unfair competition” because they have refused to allow her to compete against other women due to the fact that she is transgender. CrossFit has said that it will…

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We Have Corporations To Thank For the Veto of Arizona’s Anti-Gay SB 1062

We Have Corporations To Thank For the Veto of Arizona’s Anti-Gay SB 1062

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If you were alive and in the United States last week, chances are you heard about Arizona’s Senate Bill 1062. The bill, while supposedly intended to protect an individual’s right to “exercise [their] religion,” was quickly recognized for what it actually was — a reactionary piece of legislation meant to “protect” people who don’t want to make wedding cakes with…

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DeAnne Smith’s Questionable At Best Knows Brittani Nichols Is The Friggin’ Best

DeAnne Smith’s Questionable At Best Knows Brittani Nichols Is The Friggin’ Best

Remember DeAnne Smith’s totally cool podcast Questionable At Best? I know you do, because I know it fills you with the fuzzies – especially this week, when DeAnne asked Autostraddle’s own Brittani Nichols to answer the question we’ve all had on our minds: what the fuck is it like to be you.

DeAnne’s choice of Brittani Nichols is a sure sign of genius, considering Brittani is the single-handedly…

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“Divergent” Star Shailene Woodley Is An Apparently Queerish Hippie Who Believes In Trees

“Divergent” Star Shailene Woodley Is An Apparently Queerish Hippie Who Believes In Trees

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Here are some things you already know about Shailene Woodley: for years, she was the fresh-faced star of ABC Family’s first flagship show, Secret Life of the American Teenager, a program that initially received conservative accolades for its portrayal of a pregnant sixteen-year-old who eschewed abortion in favor of motherhood. (Interestingly, Secret Life 

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Equaldex: Exploring the New Virtual Information-Sharing Network for Global LGBT Rights

Equaldex: Exploring the New Virtual Information-Sharing Network for Global LGBT Rights

Equaldex, a new resource which launched last week, has the power to redefine how LGBT activists from around the world keep each other posted in their parallel movements for equality.

The new website, which launched last week with over 4,000 people on a waiting list to register as users, allows users to view maps, historical timelines, and major survey data relating to the status of queer people…

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