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Month: August 2018
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16 iconic same-sex couples through history.
Wherever and whenever LGBT people have lived, they have loved. Whether they found romance in ancient Egypt or a 1920s salon, the history of queer people and their lovers is rich with devotion, betrayal, and activism. Throughout history, same-sex couples have managed to fall in and out of love just as clumsily as anyone else.
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Guidance counselor may lose job after Catholic school learns she has a wife.
The Indianapolis Catholic school gave Shelly Fitzgerald an ultimatum: resign or “dissolve” your marriage. A guidance counselor at an Indianapolis Catholic school has been placed on administrative leave after school officials discovered she was married to a woman. Shelley Fitzgerald has worked at Roncalli High School…
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25 jokes about being gay that’ll have you screaming…well, at least a few will.
Pretty funny stuff from BuzzFeed. A few made me laugh out loud…very loud too.
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Vermont executive would be nation’s first transgender governor.
A former energy company executive from Vermont has a shot at becoming the nation’s first transgender governor — but she says that’s not the main reason she’s running. Christine Hallquist says that in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary, people are finally beginning to pay attention to the race, but her status as a transgender woman isn’t what’s on their minds.
POLICIES
Malaysian women to be caned for ‘attempting lesbian sex’.
Two Malaysian women convicted for attempting to have lesbian sex will be fined and caned, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a rare case against gay people in the Muslim-majority country. Islamic enforcement officers in the conservative northeastern state of Terengganu found the two Muslim women attempting to engage in sexual acts in…
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The media often fails to explain the many harms to LGBTQ people from conversion therapy.
The conversion therapy industry seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people, and its practitioners are profiting off of the harm and sometimes eventual death of the queer and trans individuals subjected to this torture. Despite its being a total failure and…