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President Obama Should Show He's Queer Like Us

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Patrick, Janet Dagley, White House, Hate Crimes, Sam Putnam, Big Gay Speech, Brent Childers, President Obama, March on Washington, Queer, Human Rights Campaign, Edith Disler, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Equality Maine, Gay Marriage, Jennifer Putnam, Obama Gay Rights, Barack Obama Civil Rights, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?

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The Queerness of Michael Jackson

Irene Monroe | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Staple Center, Diana Ross, Queer, Al Sharpton, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Memorial, Marlon Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rock Hudson, Vitiligo, Entertainment News
Irene Monroe

Clearly Sharpton's statement hinted at the racism Michael Jackson endured in the music industry. But he totally ignored, as many have, the issues of gender and sexuality that clearly impacted the star.

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40 Years Old and All I Get is This Damn Rainbow Flag?

Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Queer, Gay-Rights-Movement, Patriarchal, Homogeneity, Enough Is Enough, Stonewall Bar, Queer People of Color, 40th Anniversary, The Closet, New York City’s “Finest”, Homosexuality, Common Cause, Dr. King, Progressive, Transgender, Cross-Dressing, Women’s Rights Movement, Us Department of Justice, Feminist Movement, Federal Hate Crimes Bill, The Mattachine Society, American Psychiatric Association, Daughters of Belitis, Stonewall, Gay Human Rights, Living News
Michael DeJong

The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.

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Harvey Milk Deserved A Better Film Than Van Sant's Low-fat Biopic

Nancy Goldstein | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Queer, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Sex, Rick Warren, Sean Penn, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, Harvey Milk Movie, Entertainment News
Nancy Goldstein

Was Van Sant afraid that audiences wouldn't be sympathetic if 70s-era gay activists were people who suffered, swore, fought back, and f*cked like they meant it? If the street kids actually looked like dirty, starving, broke-ass teen hustlers?

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A Spiritual Challenge to the LGBTQI Community: Pray!

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 01.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Intersex, Queer, Bisexual, Lesbian, Obama Inauguration, Rick Warren, Transgendered, Prayer, Gay, Barack Obama, Lbgtqi, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Where does outrage stop and genuine spiritual practice begin? I'm asking, really.You know and I know that prayer changes things in a big way.

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Rainbow Flags at Comic-Con

Jonathan Handel | Posted 09.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Queer, Comics, Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgendered, Comic-Con, Gay, Entertainment News
Jonathan Handel

Although Prism's "only" five years old, it's an outgrowth of a group founded about 20 years ago, at the time of the first Comic-Con panel on gays and comics.

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Change I Wish They Believed In

Kate Bornstein | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Lgbt, Queer, John McCain, Youth, Age, Middle Class, Religion and Politics, Postmodern Theory, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Obama Race Speech, Politics News
Kate Bornstein

We're months away from the big US election that will alter the course of war in the Middle East, health care for US citizens, and some provide relief from the economy we've slogging through.

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Gay Muslims Make a Familiar Point

Rick Ayers | Posted 06.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Queer, Islam, Documentary, Religion and Politics, Gay Rights, Muslims, A Jihad for Love, Entertainment News
Rick Ayers

A Jihad for Love is not political posturing or abstract statistics. It is a journey of pain and suffering, and ultimately hope.

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