Tyger Songbird
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Yasmin Benoit is NYC Pride’s first asexual grand marshal & she’s ready to change the status quo
“I’m happy to be asexual and aromantic,” says Benoit. “It’s not a problem. Here I am, just living life.”
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Let’s stop pressuring people to be in relationships this Valentine’s Day
Corporations make billions from romantic love on Valentine’s Day, but people valued non-romantic relationships even in Biblical times.
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The religious right is now targeting sexless marriages as “selfishness.” They want to ban those too
It’s not just same-sex marriages Republicans want to ban. Now they don’t like asexual marriages either.
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Trump judge rules that Christian teacher can misgender trans students
The teacher said that she believes God assigns people genders through their genitalia and therefore she can only use names and pronouns in accordance with students’ records.
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New Hampshire Republicans want to force teachers to police students’ gender expression
Republicans want teachers to report changes in students’ “gender expression or identity” to their parents.
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Oklahoma bill that could require school counselors to out students advances
The bill requires any materials on sexuality given by a counselor to a student be disclosed to parents, potentially forcing counselors to out students, endangering their lives.
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Oklahoma library ditches sex assault support group & romance bookclub after board bans LGBTQ display
Due to bans on sexual content in presentations by public entities, the bodice rippers book club enjoyed mostly by older ladies in the community is now canceled.
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Tennessee is trying to find a loophole to ban same-sex marriage even if it legalizes child brides
Republicans have proposed a new law regarding common-law marriage, minus an age limit.
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Oklahoma is advancing a bill that would criminalize school librarians over LGBTQ books
The bill will charge schools $10,000 a day for having LGBTQ books and blacklist school librarians who allow such books to stay on the shelves.
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An Oklahoma judge is denying a mother parental rights because she’s not the “gestational parent”
Despite both parents’ names appearing on the birth certificate, the judge is denying a mother her parental rights. Now, a major legal battle is underway.
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It is time to start celebrating Black asexuality in media
So far, ace representation has mostly involved white male characters who tend to be socially awkward and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
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GOP bill would ban teachers from talking about LGBTQ people because it “offends Christian values”
Critics say the bill would lead to more bullying. Proponents say that their religious values are more important.
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Arizona doctors could face prison time for providing therapeutic care to trans youth
The bill would force teachers to out queer students to their parents and harm trans youth by denying them life-saving care.
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Anti-trans author is petitioning to have two teachers fired for supporting LGBTQ students.
Bigoted author Abigail Shrier has falsely accused two California teachers of “recruiting” students to a school’s gay-straight alliance, imperiling their livelihoods and safety.
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Conservatives are attacking LGBTQ books so they can make another generation hateful
Calls to burn queer books aren’t about “obscene material.” They’re about stigmatizing LGBTQ people as pathological and sinful.
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American Christians busted pushing conversion therapy in Costa Rica by undercover reporters
A conversion therapist told one undercover reporter that his parents watched porn before he was born, which made him gay.
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Conservatives want to disband the Nebraska Board of Education to stop LGBTQ education
The Republican governor supports a petition to politicize the Nebraska Department of Education by making it report to the governor so he can better stop LGBTQ-inclusive health education.
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North Carolina Lt. Governor compares LGBTQ people to cow dung & says straights are “superior”
The GOP politician claims to be a Christian pastor, but all he teaches is hate. Locals describe him as “a weak and small man” with “nothing constructive to offer.”
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Dolores Huerta shows us how LGBTQ equality is inextricably linked with other justice movements
“When we talk about workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights, we are having the same conversation about human rights – and the universal struggle to be understood and treated as equals.”
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I am asexual. My story is exactly why LGBTQ inclusive sex ed should be required in schools.
The fact so few people receive LGBTQ sex ed hurts everyone, especially kids who grew up like me.
