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Trans Teen Stabbed on D.C. Metro, Follows String of Violence Against Trans Women

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Following a recent string of violence against trans women of color in the D.C. area, a 15 year-old trans girl was stabbed in the back this Wednesday while she was riding a Metro train with some of her teenage friends.
One of her friends related the story that the man came up to her on the train and began making fun of her appearance and asking questions like, “Are…

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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Straight People Now Crashing LGBT Job Fairs

Although it would’ve seemed unbelievable not too long ago that a straight person would risk being mistaken for LGBTQ while on the job market, apparently some straight MBA students these days are being told by their teachers to attend LGBTQ career fairs. According to Matt Kidd, executive director of Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), a nonprofit organization known for hosting the largest annual conference…

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Out Makeup Artist Lends Some Gay to SyFy’s “Face Off”

Now in its seventh season, SyFy’s Channel’s Face Offis one of the better reality competition shows out there, despite not having as much hype as some more backstabbing programs. The skill showcased here is special effects makeup artistry that is so much more than painting a face. They have very limited amounts of time to create truly fantastical creatures, monsters, aliens and any characters that…

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The New Yorker’s Skewed History of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism Ignores Actual Trans Women

Media coverage of transgender issues has increased rapidly in the last few years as trans people have made larger and louder pushes for relatively basic rights and recognition. Unfortunately, as ground is gained in the fight for trans acceptance, the opposition to that progress only grows more louder and more aggressive. This is visible in Michelle Goldberg’s latest piece for the New Yorker,…

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San Diego Comic-Con 2014: “Mockingjay” Gets a Trailer! Mockingbird Joins “SHIELD!” “The Last of Us” Gets a Movie!

So, San Diego Comic-Con happened. That’s cool, right? Sadly, Marvel didn’t announce a Captain Marvel movie, DC didn’t announce that Wonder Woman (or even Harley Quinn or Poison Ivy) is canonically queer and Natalie Dormer did not ask me to marry her. Still, there was a lot of pretty cool news. So let’s check it out (and warning, there are slight spoilers throughout)!
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The Exciting Rise of Christian College LGBT Groups — And What They Mean for the Future

As we can all imagine (and as some of you know), evangelical Christian college campuses are not the friendliest to LGBTQ students. Attempts to create supportive communities have been sporadic and met with limited success. However, according to two Gordon College alumni writing for The Atlantic, Philip Francis and Mark Longhurst, there’s new hope in 2014: “[O]ver the past two weeks, an LGBT group…

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There Was a Pride Parade in Final Fantasy XIV and You Should Care About It!

Last weekend, the largest group of LGBT gamers ever gathered for an epic, virtual pride parade in Final Fantasy XIV. Though pride parades have happened in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, or MMORPGs, in the past, this one in particular is notable for its size and context.
An MMORPG is a game where people can customize personal avatars to go on a series of adventures for experience…

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Barbie Doesn’t Earn Feminist Empowerment Badge for Becoming A Girl Scout

Mattel has an elaborate bullpen of “I Can Be” Barbie dolls dressed for careers as various as “Pet Vet” to “Fashion Designer” and, thanks to a new partnership between Mattel and Girl Scouts USA, Barbie has a new image, a new Girl Scout doll and a new tagline: “Barbie: Be Anything. Do Everything.” The partnership includes the creation of a new “For Girls” wing of the Girl Scouts USA websitethat…

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No Man’s Land: The Limbo Of Florida’s Latest Court Ruling On Gay Marriage

In the wake of a Florida court’s decision to continue withholding equal rights for all its citizens, many were left feeling confused instead of angry. Over the past few years, absorbing these decisions from the news has yielded fairly polarized reactions: either yelling at the injustice or celebrating that we won a thing.
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This Florida case was different though. There was…

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San-Diego Comic Con Uses Minor Policy Changes Against Sexual Harassment: It’s Super Ineffective

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This week was Batman’s 75th anniversary, and a local comics shop in my area celebrated by hosting a Batman Dance Party. There was cheap beer, great music (save for playing “Blurred Lines” at the beginning of the party), and more than 250 people dressed up as Batman, with a few popular villains mixed in. I dressed up as Black Widow, because, let’s face it, Batman…

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“Painkiller Jane,” Woman-Directed Bisexual Woman Superhero Movie, Announced While Marvel and DC Twiddle Thumbs

In a time when both Marvel and DC seem to refuse to make movies starring female superheroes, it was announced today that the Soska Sisters will be directing a Painkiller Jane movie. This means that not only is there going to be a comic book superhero movie starring a woman, but that movie will be directed by two women and the character that the movie is about is a bisexual woman.
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Andreja Pejic, Supermodel, Comes Out as a Trans Woman!

Model Andreja Pejic has been in the public spotlight for a few years, making big waves for her androgynous look and ability to model both menswear and womenswear flawlessly. She’s now in the news again after coming out publicly as a trans woman and announcing that she will start to exclusively model women’s fashion from now on. She says that she is supported by friends and her family in Australia.

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Fenway Report: Trans People Continue to Experience More Discrimination, Poorer Health

It’s news because it’s not news.
Last week most of the online attention to LGB health was focused on the Center for Disease Control’s report on Sexual Orientation and Health Among U.S. Adultsthat was released on July 15. The report summarized data from The 2013 National Health Interview Survey, which was the first time in the CDC’s 57-year history they included questions about sexual orientation…

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White Gay Dudes, Straight Black People: With Friends Like These, Who Needs A Voice?

Recently, in Kalamazoo Michigan, Katrina and Marashette Burks, a married, Black lesbian couple in Kalamazoo Michigan, had their home broken into, valuables stolen, and slurs spray painted on the walls, including the words “Move Or Die”. Because of a lack of hate crime legislation that includes sexual orientation, the crime is not going to be charged as a hate crime, despite the fact that there…

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Portia de Rossi Is Joining “Scandal” As If You Needed Another Reason To Watch

In truly adorable fashion, Ellen DeGeneres announced yesterday via twitter that her wife, Portia De Rossi will be joining the cast of Scandal. Degeneres tweets: “So annoying when people brag on twitter & that’s why I’m not tweeting that Portia just signed on to do a top secret arc on ‘Scandal’. Oops.” This power-couple — whose first and last names elude any attempts at Brangelina-ing—just cannot…

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