Come on Colorado!

So remember when I said that I wasn’t getting near politics, cause I’d start throwing things? Well, it’s been an interesting week. This is the third politically oriented blog I’ve written in a row, and I have yet to throw anything (despite being sorely tempted to do so after North Carolina’s ruling).

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Thank you, Mr. President.

Barack Obama has become the first US President to openly support gay marriage. Wow.

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North Carolina Heads Up the Battle for Equality

NC is considering a bill that would ban all forms of same-sex marriage on a state level.

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I Was a Boy Scout Once… And a Brownie

When I was little, I was so jealous of the kids who got to wear their scout uniforms to school. Oh, man. All of the patches that they could earn for learning all kinds of things were so fascinating to me, not to mention selling cookies and getting to go camping. Eventually, I wore my [...]

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An Ovation for Equality

In our world, where it seems like the largest opposition to marriage equality is certain religious institutions, it’s refreshing to hear about a church that has collectively taken a stand for the rights of the LGBTQ community. It’s really no secret that the Catholic Church has a public stance against marriage equality.  So I can’t [...]

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Keep Hate out of Imaginary Worlds–there’s more than enough in the real one.

Hater groups are trying to keep LGBTQ romances out of video games, are going to stand for it?

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With a Little Guts and Lots of Glitter

I’ve always been a lover of beauty pageants. They’ve always been one of my guilty pleasures. There’s something about the glamour of the dresses that just draws me in. I must admit, though, I’m more Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality than a true pageant contestant, bumbling along on my own merry way, but still wanting [...]

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Russia puts a Taboo on LGBTQ

Russian leaders are trying to pass a bill that would make any public mention of LGBTQ issues a criminal offense. Read more to find out how you can help stop it!

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Homophobia’s Legacy

20 years ago today, Magic Johnson came out as having HIV. It created a seismic shift in how mainstream and conservative America prioritized the funding of fighting AIDS. The fact that it took a heterosexual athletic celebrity to come out, however courageous Magic Johnson was in doing so, is in itself a tragedy. The worldwide AIDS epidemic could have been severely limited had it not been for homophobia. The greatest legacy of homophobia is NOT the prevention of marriage equality, it’s people in poor nations dying of AIDS without any medicine and dying alone, stigmatized by their communities. And it’s a legacy of gay men in New York City and San Francisco dying miserably and alone watching an American public watch them suffer and die without caring at all.

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Be the Mercedes to Someone’s Kurt

From the very first season of Glee, we’ve watched Kurt come into his own self-identification. We’ve seen him deal with bullying and having his first relationship and trying to feel comfortable being himself. But I want to think for a moment, way back to the beginning, when we were watching him struggle with the decision to come out.

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