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Can we please stop with all the nomad hate?
What if I told you there was a brewing movement where Americans and Western Europeans are starting to adopt an extremely minimalistic lifestyle, eschewing personal possessions and dramatically reducing their carbon footprint?
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What we need this Pride Month is equal access to the ballot
Every American who wants to vote needs to be able to do so.
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Are LGBTQ people being protected & served by the criminal justice system?
The modern LGBTQ equality movement was born as a protest and a fight against police violence. We’re still fighting the system today.
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Why I left my job teaching this year
Teaching had become too toxic: the grotesque, steady, virulent stream of public rhetoric aimed at LGBTQ, disabled, Black, and brown people had overflowed into my own life.
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Conservative think tank aims to make the U.S. a fascist theocracy
Under the principles, endorsed by Peter Thiel, the federal government could overrule local government to restore “order” in the face of “immorality.”
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7 surprising things about Lake Como, Italy
We assumed the area was an enclave for the rich — a sort of Italian Aspen, or maybe like Monaco. It turns out we were wrong, mostly in ways that delighted us.
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Today is our first Father’s Day. Here’s what we learned on our journey to adoption
Finding the right adoption path can be a challenge. This was how we did it and what we learned.
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How I celebrate Pride when my religious parents taught me that pride is a sin
Coming to terms with pride, in all its iterations, has been a journey independent of the one I went on to come out.
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How coming out in the 1970s helped me make life changing decisions as I got older
I couldn’t expect other people to be comfortable with me unless I was comfortable with myself.
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How to get smarter & fight harder for LGBTQ rights
There’s a way to level the political playing field and it’s called keeping score. Our politicians need to feel about the American public like the American public feels about the IRS during an audit.
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Panicking Democrats are already whispering about dumping Biden in 2024
One thing you can always count on with Democrats: they love to panic. But if Biden is dead set on running for re-election, the party better gets its act together and quit clutching its pearls.
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GOP candidate Michele Fiore doesn’t hate the LGBTQ community. She just hates.
Michele Fiore said that “transgendering” can cause school shootings. She’s marched in Pride and her mom is a lesbian. What’s going on?
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Do LGBTQ people who work for anti-LGBTQ churches deserve support when they get fired?
Our community is built on love and acceptance, but it is also difficult to be angry alongside them or even comfort them when they were helping propagate an institution that would see their LGBTQ peers suffer just for being who they are.
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Today’s GOP isn’t the one that Marco Rubio bet his political career on
Sen. Marco Rubio was supposed to be the future of a more polished, multi-cultural GOP. At least he’s got his vicious anti-LGBTQ rhetoric to fall back on as he seeks re-election.
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Slavery was so long ago… What good will reparations do now?
Gaps in wealth between black and white households show the impact of uninterrupted systemic inequality and discrimination beginning at the nation’s inception.
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This was what happened when I was called into the principal’s office when my child said he is trans
Over the phone, Ms. Z said she’d like to meet to discuss some things my child had disclosed at school “just to get ahead of any potential problems in the future.”
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The dangerous deception of Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?”
We watched Matt Walsh’s anti-trans propaganda so you don’t have to. Spoiler alert: It’s full of transphobic lies.
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America needs to stop its insane tipping practices
What is the tip for, anyway? Even after all these years, America still hasn’t figured it out. It’s ostensibly a reward for good service, but woe be it to the person who tips less than 15 percent, even for bad service.
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The Nazis didn’t ban all Germans from owning guns. That’s a lie spread by gun control opponents
Hitler actually loosened the regulations for gun ownership.
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Is Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a friend or foe to the LGBTQ community?
Russia calls the members of the Azov Battalion anti-LGBTQ neo-Nazis. But Ukraine’s queer community is calling them heroes.