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Poll Position: Should Groups Like Asexuals And The Polyamorous Be Included Under The Queer Umbrella?

Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Poll Position, Transgender, Polyamory, LGBT Community, Lesbian, Queer Umbrella, Bdsm, Asexuality, Queer Community, Gay, Gay Voices News

It's Friday and that means we've got another Poll Position topic for you to consider. Our question this week was inspired by a recent HuffPost Gay ...

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What It's Like To Be A Sex Worker In Love

Kitty Stryker | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Healthy Relationships, Social Justice, Queer, Relationships, Sex Workers, Sex, Sex Work, Love, Communication, Gay Voices News
Kitty Stryker

The media says that if you are a person in the sex industry, even one who consensually entered sex work, you will always have to make a choice between love and work. Sex workers, you see, cannot afford to love. I say that's crap.

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Nathan And Tristan: A Story Of Love, Peace And Understanding

Barb Snelgrove | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Homophobes, Marin Foundation, Gay Bullying, Queer, Gaypride, Gay, Pride, Gays, Gay Pride, Anti-Gay Bullying, Bible Homosexuality, Homosexual, Christianity and Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Christianity Homosexuality, Homophobia, Homosexuality and Religion, Homophobe, Gay Voices News
Barb Snelgrove

This is the story of Nathan and Tristan. Nathan is that self-professed former "Bible-banging homophobe" who (along with some other like-minded, reformed individuals) decided to attend a local gay pride parade to apologize for the way the church has treated homosexuals.

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The Politics of Jesús: A "Xota" Activist From Salinas, CA

Voto Latino | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Queer, Advocate, Poor, Raza, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Voto Latino

Things change when we treat the needs of all people as holy. And as my Grandpa always says, "No mas te falta la entrega."

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AfterEllen.com's Best Lesbian Week Ever: March 30 to April 6

Trish Bendix | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Fashion Star, Michelle Tea, Sister Spit, Susan Sarandon, Bisexual, Lesbian, Susan Sontag, Kara Laricks, Carrie Brownstein, AfterEllen.Com, Gay Voices News
Trish Bendix

Each week we'll share some of the best tidbits on The Huffington Post in our new series, "Best Lesbian Week Ever." Here's who and what was on our raging gay radar this week.

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Zackary Drucker's "Gold Standard" (NSFW)

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Photography, Zackary Drucker, Video, Queer, Transgender, Translady Fanzine, Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, Transsexual, LGBT Art, Queer Art, Performance Art, Fashion, Amos Mac, Slidepollajax, Gender, Arts News

Zackary Drucker is a transgender performance artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality and seeing. The artist uses a female pron...

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Trying To Queer Things Up A Little

David Groshoff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Queer, Queer Terminology, Queer Meaning, Queer Term, Queer Theory, Queer Word, Queer Offensive Word, Queer Offensive, Gay Voices News
David Groshoff

In nearly every one of my columns here, at least one reader has demonstrated a problem with my use of the word "queer." Sometimes multiple people have posted objections in the comments to the same article. So, please allow me to make a couple of points.

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Queer In Immigration Detention

Jonathan Perez | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Queer, Dreamers Blog Series, Undocumented Immigrants, Gay Rights, Latino Politics, Gay, Dreamers, Deportation, Gay Issues, Latino Voices News
Jonathan Perez

It's my responsibility as an undocumented, queer man to educate others whenever possible, so that people might become more aware and conscious of homophobia.

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Queer Hair For The Postmodern Dandy

justin adkins | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Trans, Transgender, Assimilation, Trans Men, Anti-Assimilation, Queer, Ftm Transsexual, Ftm, Queer Anti-Assimilation, Transgender Facial Hair, Trans Man, Gay Voices News
justin adkins

I went to a workshop where the question was posed, "What is something you do to queer your life?" I said, "I wear a handlebar mustache." The audience laughed, but I was serious. The mustache is no coincidence. My facial hair is based on anti-assimilation theory.

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Gabriel Lerner

WATCH: Undocumented And Unafraid, Queer And Unashamed

HuffingtonPost.com | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Jorge Gutierrez Queer Undocumented, Queer, Video, Gay Rights, Hispanic-Gays-Lesbians-Bisexuals, Latino Politics, DREAM Act, Queer Teens, Latino-Gays-Lesbians-Bisexuals, Undocumented and Queer, Cuentame, Latino Voices News

Jorge Gutiérrez, 27, was addressing a hall packed with almost 200 young people in Memphis, Tennessee. Like him, they were brought to the United S...

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Indigenous, Queer, and Organizing

Coya White Hat-Artichoker | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Sovereignty, Organizing, Queer, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous, Gay Voices News
Coya White Hat-Artichoker

I have the honor of working with the First Nations Two Spirit Collective.  We are a group of activists who identify as indigenous and are doing work in the queer community to create space for First Nations people.

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Broken In Fact, Beloved Indeed: Meditating On Sin At The End Of The Year

Lisa Anderson | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Scripture, Queer, Lesbian, Broken, Jesus, Theology, Sin, Christianity, Beloved, Black, Gay, Christian, Religion News
Lisa Anderson

I began to starve myself to death, and with an experience of sickness that infiltrated into every fiber of my physical, mental and spiritual being. 'What is sin' and 'what does it mean to be a sinner' became intensely personal questions for me.

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Let the Gay Agenda Be Liberty: An Open Letter to Bruce LaBruce

Bren Shucart | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Gay Artists, Gay Rights, Gay Culture, Gay Liberation, Gay Agenda, Bruce LaBruce, Queer Liberation, Gay Voices News
Bren Shucart

In every city in America (and, I suspect, the Western world) there are drag queens, DJs, artists, and performers busting their asses every day to make gay culture happen. And for you to airily decree gay culture to be dead is a kick in the face.

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Some Troubling Aspects of Today's California Supreme Court Response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Regarding Prop 8

David Groshoff | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Marriage, Queer, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Lesbian, Gay, Gay Marriage, Gay Voices News
David Groshoff

Fairly predictably, earlier today, California's Supreme Court issued a "loss" for those of us who oppose continuing the discriminatory effects of California's Proposition 8 ("Prop 8").

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Reality Check Your Own Privilege

Bianca James | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Community, Community Organizing, Queer, Feminism, Activism, Oppression, Political Correctness, Chicago News
Bianca James

Extreme political correctness can feel like moral panic. We rally against policy brutality and totalitarian brainwashing, then find ways to perpetuate it in our own communities.

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Dear Mom, I Love You (P.S. I'm Poly, Kinky and Queer)

Amy Shiner | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Polygamy, Queer, Polyamory, Glbt, National Coming Out Day, Kinky, Gay Voices News
Amy Shiner

I think the saying is true that you will come out more than once in your lifetime if you fall in any range of the GLBT spectrum. I have a triple whammy; I am poly, kinky and queer.

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You Don't Have to Be Queer to Come Out

Bianca James | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Coming Out, Authenticity, Queer, National Coming Out Day 2011, Courage, Encouragement, Sexuality, Chicago News
Bianca James

It's important to find some safe place in your life where you can be your most authentic self and not a sanitized, publicly acceptable shadow of that self.

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How Being Queer Inspires My Interfaith-Atheist Work

Chris Stedman | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Atheism, Lgbtq, Gay, Queer Identity, Interfaith Dialogue, Gay Identity, Gay Voices News
Chris Stedman

At one point in my life, being gay might have contributed to the bitterness I had toward religion and the religious, but now it informs my desire to be deeply and personally invested in active religious pluralism.

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Why I'm Married To A Man But Call Myself Queer

Margaret Cho | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Queer, Bisexuality, Margaret Cho Bisexual, Margaret Cho Bisexuality, Queer People, Gay Voices News
Margaret Cho

I don't know why it's a difficult concept to understand. Most of the people I know have had sex with more than one person, and many have sex outside marriage. I just happen to have had it with people all along the gender scale.

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Was Hamlet's Dad Gay?

Priscilla Frank | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Hamlet's Dad, Hamlet, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Queer, Homophobic, Subterranean Press, Orson Scott Card, Poll, Theater, Lds Church, UK Arts, Pedophile, Hamlet's Father, Freedom of Speech, Brigham Young, Homophobia, Card, Mormon, Literary Review, Scott Card, Science Fiction, Gay Marriage, Hamlet Sequel, Arts News
Priscilla Frank

We've all felt haunted by our sexuality at some point or another, but most of us don't decide to project these frustrations onto one of the great literary masterpieces of all time, while claiming to show "what's really going on."

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Michele and Marcus Bachmann on Homosexuality (VIDEO)

Erin Gibson | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Clinic, Gop, Homosexuality, Queer, Erin Gibson, Michele Bachmann, Modern Lady, Bryan Safi, Marcus Bachmann, Lesbian, Republican, Anti-Gay, Gay, Tea Party, Comedy, That's Gay, Comedy News
Erin Gibson

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Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement?

Chris Stedman | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Friendly Atheist, Lyz Liddell, Or Rose, Kumbaya, Freethought, Jen Mccreight, Science Blogs, Tufts, Ashutosh Varshney, Skepticism, Valarie Kaur, Faith, Tufts Freethought Society, Center for Inquiry, Queer, Atheism, Jesse Galef, Josh Rosenau, Jen Bailey, Robert Putnam, Chris Latondresse, Interfaith Youth Core, Secular Student Alliance, Religion, Evangelical, p.z. Myers, Humanism, Ron Lindsay, American Humanist Association, Blag Hag, Interfaith, Christianity, Eboo Patel, Roy Speckhardt, Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, Religion News
Chris Stedman

In my experience, interfaith work doesn't require that people check their convictions at the door, and if the only thing keeping atheists from participating is a semantic disagreement with the word "faith," I think that is a missed opportunity.

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The Amazingly Queer Race... To Save LGBTQ Lives

Roberta Sklar | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: May 14, Queer Race, Economic Justice, Queer, NYC Event, Lgbtq, 2011, New York News
Roberta Sklar

This event is more than amazing -- more than the sum of its parts, more than finding hidden treasure and raising funds. It is for raising dignity and saving the lives of LGBTQ people who might otherwise go unnoticed and be left to their own.

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The Justice Department's Anemic Defense of DOMA

Alex Blaze | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Queer, Gay, Justice Department, Marriage Equaltiy, Lesbian, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Alex Blaze

It's progress of a sort that Justice's defense of DOMA has gotten so anemic. One wishes they could now just drop it altogether.

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The F Word: Time to Stop Making Nice to Military

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swan, Queer, Lgbt, F Word, Lesbian, Don\?T Ask Don\?T Tell, Obama, Veterans Day, Navy, Gay, Service Women\?S Action Network, The F Word, Armistice Day, Army, Military, Dadt, Politics News
Laura Flanders

President Obama's go-slow approach to ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discrimination in the military has left repeal on life support in a lame-duck ses...

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