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GLAAD ‘no longer an acronym,’ alters name as part of broadened mission
GLAAD has announced that its name will no longer be an acronym for the “Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,” and that it is altering its name and broadening its mission to focus more on advocating for equality for transgender people.
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Where’s the ‘B’ in national LGBTQ organizations?
Given the overwhelming evidence in the past few years showing that bisexual persons exist in greater numbers than the combined gay male, lesbian and transgender populations, we must ask whether some of the national queer organizations that send out donation requests demanding that we “demand equality for everyone” are themselves paying attention to the particular needs of bisexual folks, not merely as lip service, not just as an afterthought, but in any sort of tangible way. Noting that none of the following 10 national organizations includes the word “bisexual” or even the letter “B” in its name, I called and emailed media representatives of these groups about their bisexual policies and leadership for this report…
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Famed music executive Clive Davis comes out as bisexual in new memoir
In his new memoir, “The Soundtrack of My Life,” famed record producer and music industry executive Clive Davis comes out as bisexual.
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LGBT candidate Sinema declared winner in Arizona U.S. House race
PHOENIX — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema on Monday was declared the winner in the election to represent Arizona’s Ninth District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Bisexual student sent home after refusing to change ‘I enjoy vagina’ t-shirt
QUEENS, N.Y. — A Queens high school sophomore who self identifies as bisexual, was sent home Tuesday, after school administrators deemed that the “I enjoy vagina” T-shirt she was wearing was a distraction.
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True LGBT Story: Lisa Morris, a bisexual dilemma — ‘I’m from Portland, Maine’
Lisa Morris, who identifies as bisexual, married a man when she was 29. … “He couldn’t handle it. After we got married he started getting really fearful and jealous and worried and kind of focused on that I would leave him for a woman. I was like, ‘I’m bisexual. I could leave you for a man, I could leave you for a woman.”
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Google unblocks ‘bisexual’ from list of banned search results
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Without fanfare, internet search giant Google on Tuesday quietly unblocked the term “bisexual” from its search engine results.
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Bisexual woman wins Arizona congressional primary
Openly bisexual candidate Kyrsten Sinema won a Democratic primary on Tuesday night and will advance to the November general election in Arizona’s 9th Congressional District.
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Cynthia Nixon did not choose to be gay
Cynthia Nixon recently told the New York Times that she chose to be gay. Her statement was clumsy, irresponsible, inaccurate, and lent itself to exploitation by anti-gay activists.
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Cynthia Nixon’s comments prove we still don’t know how to talk about sexual identity
The LGBT blogosphere has been wrestling with comments made by actress Cynthia Nixon to The New York Times that she chose to be a lesbian: “And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me.”