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Embracing Teenage Sexuality: Let's Rethink the Age of Consent

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 01.02.2010 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Law, Children, Child Pornography, Men's Rights, Canada, Media, Sex Education, California, Teenagers, Politics, Gay Rights, Love, Bioethics, Women, Abstinence Only Education, Sex Ed, Crime, Age-of-Consent, Christian Right, Gone With the Wind, Porn, New York, Sexuality, Pornography, Religion, Homosexuality, Genarlow Wilson, Education, Human Rights, Abstinence Only, Health, Sex, Great Britain, Politics News

Our draconian consent laws are largely the product of a conservative political culture that has transformed the fight against child molestation into a full-blown war on teenage sexuality.

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Illinois Senate Campaign Ad Calls Mark Kirk 'Homosexual'

nbcchicago.com | Posted 12.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Senate Campaign, Senate Campaign Ad, Politics, Homosexuality, Chicago, Senate, Andy Martin, Illinois, Chicago News

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What If Santa Were Gay?

Ruth Sherman | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Homosexuality, Off-Broadway, Santa Claus, Theatre, Candi Cushman, Santa Clause Is Coming Out, Jeffrey Solomon, Glsen, Michelle Malkin, Kevin Jennings, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News

I just saw a sweet, funny, Off-Broadway play entitled "Santa Claus Is Coming Out" that entertains exactly this question. We learn that Santa Claus is afraid; he is actually a closeted gay man.

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The Death Penalty as Punishment for Being Gay - Apparently Uganda Doesn't Know it's 2009

Jenny Block | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Homosexuality, Anti-Gay Laws, Gay Rights, Holocaust, Nazi, Africa, Hitler, Museveni, Hillary Clinton, Uganda, Gay, Gay-Issues, Nazi Germany, Gay Marriage, Politics News

In television and film they call it jumping the shark. In real life we generally call it ridiculous. In this case the only word is appalling. On second thought, disgusting fits too.

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Some Great New Books!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cole Porter, English Country Houses, Random House, Harvard, Yale, CoCo Chanel, Sergei Diaghilev, Newport, Country-Life, Dunbarton Oaks, Cecil Beaton, Santa Barbra, Janet Gaynor, Boston, Princton, Victorian Estates, Rockrfellers, Abstraction, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Les Ballets Russes, Sir Edwin Lutyens, New York, Beatrice Farrand, Edith Wharton, Homosexuality, Italien Villas, Gertrude Jeckyll, Pablo Picasso, Bliss, Carl Van Vechten, A'liea Walker, Susanne Tucker, Adrian, Books News

If one is known to be a lover of fine books, one of the best times of the year is quite near. Thanks to this short list of selections from Random House's Monacelli Press, we can happily enjoy some of life's finer pleasures.

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Stupidity, Gay Marriage, and the Evolution of Religion

Dan Agin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Homosexuality, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Gay Marriage, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Living News

Nowhere is the gulf between science and religion more evident and more enormous than when we confront the issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, and homosexuality.

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Richard Cohen: Gay-To-Straight 'Therapist' Spars With Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Gay Cure, Homosexual, Lesbian, Straight, Richard Cohen, Heterosexuality, Gay, Heterosexual, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Video, Gay Rights, Rachel Maddow, Uganda, Media News

Richard Cohen claims he has helped thousands of people come out of ... homosexuality. His work has drawn the ire of the LGBT community, and has als...

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School Dress Codes Target Gender

Tove Hermanson | Posted 12.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Homosexuality, Cross Dressing, Gender Stereotypes, Education, Sex Education, Gender, Style News

If unusual or gender bending clothes cause a dreaded disruption in class, banning the clothes is still not going to address the core problem: that gayness is considered an undesirable aberration.

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Same-Sex Marriage After Maine: What Can We Do Differently?

Isobel White | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

If experiences in California are any measure, LGBT residents of Maine can expect higher levels of stress and depression and greater feelings of political alienation. So what can we do differently?

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Can You Put Gay Characters In A Kid's Book?

Christian Science Monitor | Marjorie Kehe | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Books, Gay, Book Fairs, Ttyl, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Lauren Myracle, Scholastic, School Book Fairs, Children's Books, Lauren Myracle Luv Ya Bunches, YA Books, Scholastic Book Fairs, Gay Characters, Gay Book Characters, Luv Ya Bunches, Kids' Books, Books News

Would a book with a pair of gay characters appear at Scholastic's book fairs? If not, there was angry talk of a boycott. And if so, well, there is als...

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Kenya To Launch Gay Census

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Kenya Gays, Kenya, Kenya Census, Kenya Gay Rights, Gays, Kenya Homosexuals, World News

Kenya is to carry out a census of its gay population in an effort to bolster the fight against HIV/Aids - despite homosexuality being against the law....

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Sex And The Illusion Of Physical Form

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Skin, Homosexuality, Illusion, Physical Form, Sex, Water, Prejudice, Srini Pillay Srinivasan Pillay, Love, Gender, Living News

"Maya" is a Sanskrit term that refers to the "illusion" of physical and mental forms. If the physical form is in fact an illusion, who are you having sex with?

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'He's Just Not That Into You' Really?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Srini Pillay, Homosexuality, Fear, Rejection, Guilt, Brain, Trust, Srinivasan Pillay, Sex, Abandonment, Homophobia, Love, Intimacy, Relationships, Living News

What does "not being into you" mean? People assume that it is just about sexual attraction, but is it just this?

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The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Homosexuality, National Equality March, Cleve Jones, Gay Rights, Aids, Obama Gay Rights, Self-Esteem, Homosexuality and Religion, Human Rights Campaign, Jay-Michaelson, David Mixner, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Where are the GLBT prophets who call us all to account? If it is true that denying marriage to gays is a moral deficiency, why haven't gay leaders framed it that way?

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Blake Hayes: NYPD Ignored Gay-Bash Incident Says Victim

NBC New York | Posted 11.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Homosexuality, Hate Crimes, Gay Rights, Gay Bashing, New York Cops, Nypd, Crime, Balke Hayes, New York News

A local radio personality says he and two friends suffered an anti-gay attack in Hell's Kitchen over the weekend and police turned a blind eye to the ...

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- Reds to Beds

Chip Berlet | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Homosexuality, Values Voters, Populism, Family Values, Evangelical Christians, Sociology, Anti-Abortion, Christian Right, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Sex Education, Politics News

There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.

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Jamaica's Only Gay Church Gives Parishioners A Community In Secret

GlobalPost | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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INGSTON, Jamaica �" It takes just 15 minutes to set up an underground church. Two boxes and a white sheet make up the pulpit. The altar is a card t...

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Michael Schwartz: "Homosexuality Is Inflicted On People... All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Coburn, Pornography, Homosexuality, Video, Michael Schwartz, Values Voters Summit, Family Research Council, Michael Schwartz Video, Politics News

Think Progress had someone videotaping at the Family Research Council's "Values Voters Summit" and they caught Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff fo...

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Indonesia: Adulterers Can Now Be Stoned To Death In Aceh Province

AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stonin...

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Homosexuality as a Weapon of Torture

Karen Ocamb | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Youth Radio, Aaron Belkin, Project on Government Oversight, Gays in the Military, Americablog, Don't Tell, Gawker, John Aravosis, Don't Ask, Amorgroup, Politics News

Policy makers must understand that if their job is to ultimately protect the citizenry, they are complicit in torture if they continue to dismiss abuse of power as "boys will be boys" or bullying or "hazing" as if everyone is just having some good clean fun.

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Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?

Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: California, Type 2 Diabetes, Statistics, Blindness, Moral Issues, Homosexuality, Uninsured, Barack Obama, Amputations, Ethics, Same Sex Marriage, Health Care Reform, Morality, Diabetes, Health Care, African-Americans, Gay Marriage, Kidney Disease, Home News

Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?

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Lessons In Hope and Inspiration From Harvey Milk

Jason Mannino | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama, Living, California, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Lgbt, Equality, Homosexuality, Relationships, Homosexual, Stuart Milk, Harvey Milk, Sexual Preference, Gay, Harvey Milk Day, Living News

Honoring Harvey Milk with a day that commemorates him helps to send the still dire messages of hope, inspiration, and equality. It also boldly states that we do not live in a culture that tolerates violent oppression.

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Miami Social: My Hair Raising Experience

Michael Cohen | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bravo TV, Miami Social, Miami Beach, Homosexuality, Farrah Fawcett Died, L'Oreal, Gansevoort Hotel, Homosexuality in Media, Farah Fawcett, Vicodin, Gays on TV, Restylane, Gays, Gay Issues, Entertainment News

I went on for opportunities. The opportunity to further my professional and personal fronts and now the PR firm that reps Rogaine has found me and they are sending me samples.

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Iraq: Stop Killings for Homosexual Conduct

Human Rights Watch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

The killings -- committed without evidence or trial, on the basis of prejudice and whim -- violate standards in Sharia law for legality, proof, and privacy.

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Masturbation and Gay Sex Cause Swine Flu, Apparently

Disgrasian | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Swine Flu Prevention, Gay Sex, Anal Sex, Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, H1N1 Influenza, Science, Malaysia, Gay, Masturbation, Homosexuality, Urban Myths, Swine Flu Outbreak, Sex, H1n1 Flu, Homophobia, Gays, H1n1, Swine Flu Malaysia, World News

"Normal sexual union," though, is perfectly safe! Hurrah! Score another one for heteros!

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