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That's Kinda Gay Gay slurs have been thrown everywhere lately, from Grey's Anatomy to the Massachusetts gubernatorial race. But is it always demeaning to be called “gay”? |
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House of Hatred Dr. Phil takes the worst parts of six real people, including a lesbian and a homophobe, and creates a monster that he claims is “a groundbreaking social experiment. |
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Fantasy Island VH1 News' Women Seeking Women: A Bi-curious Journey is sensationalism thinly veiled as documentary. |
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Talk is Cheap Well-meaning celebrities like Brad Pitt minimize what it means to be a lesbian or a gay man when they put our important issues on their PR agendas. |
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Yet Another Guilty Pleasure VH1's Flavor of Love is not Survivor — it's a game of twits, not wits. So should we feel guilty for enjoying it? |
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Rumor Has It How does gay gossip about celebrities like Oprah Winfrey in blogs and other outlets impact the way celebrities (closeted and not) think about the queer community, and what purpose does it ultimately serve? |
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The "Christianization" of Lady Liberty Homophobic Apostle Alton R. Williams crossed the line between Church and State when he unveiled his "Statue of Liberation Through Christ." So where's the outrage? |
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Know Thy Neighbor It's perfectly legal for KnowThyNeighbor.org to publish the names and addresses of anti-gay petitioners online, but is it ethical? |
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Truth, Lies, and Textbooks In the debate over the use of textbooks that include the accomplishments of GLBT people, California legislators ponder why school children need to know a person is gay. But the real question is, what took so long? |
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Rosie, Ellen, and Daytime TV When she joins The View and goes head to head with Ellen DeGeneres in a battle of the lesbian daytime stars, will Rosie O'Donnell's out and loud political substance overshadow Ellen's lesbian-lite style? |
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Gays and Goombahs There are easier paths for an Italian-American to take in life than the pink one, as the recent outing of mobster Vito on The Sopranos so brilliantly illustrates. |
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Faith in America A controversial new nationwide ad campaign takes on Americans who use religion to justify homophobia. |
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Lily Tomlin and Lesbian Visibility Lily Tomlin has contributed to the fight against ignorance in many ways, but we can't pretend that her invisibility factor as a lesbian is a reflection of society's acceptance, when it's likely a reflection of society's ignorance. |
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A Day in the Life of a Lesbian What if Mr. and Mrs. America were presented with a “fair and balanced” record of a day in the life of an average American lesbian? |
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Dinah Shore Weekend Would the wholesome, hetero entertainer have put her name
on the golf classic if she had known it would become one of the most popular lesbian parties on the planet? |
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Rescuing
the First Amendment
Kim
Ficera takes on the Traditional Values Coalition and its ongoing
attempt to manipulate and abuse freedom of speech. |
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Wife
Swap A
heterosexual man is suing the TV series Wife Swap
for replacing his wife with a gay man. How much is the TV
show to blame? |
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Standing
Up to Christian Fundamentalists
If
gay people are as bad as some Christians want everyone to
believe, then they should very easily be able to prove it.
I want to see the evidence — real evidence, not scripture.
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Choosing
to be Gay Swoopes's
assertion that she wasn't born gay is something we don't want
to hear. |
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Victoria's
Secret "Lesbians" The
lingerie company's controversial new in-store display featuring
"lesbian" mannequins is the latest in the growing
trend of using fantasies of lesbian sexuality to market to
heterosexuals. |
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Straight Girls Happen
As
a recent episode of America's Next Top Model reminds
us, the lure of the lesbian is something many straight women
can't seem to resist. |
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Gay
Marriage and Family Values
The
Christian/Republican vs. Gay/Democrat screaming match is so
old it’s new again, and
like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, worse the second
time around. |
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Settling for Reality TV
Gays
and lesbians are settling for reality programming as our primary
source of visibility on TV—a genre that, frankly, makes
us look like idiots. |
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Dressing
Up the Lesbians The solutions offered
by Exodus International’s “restoration”
therapy for lesbians seem to revolve around make-up and makeovers. |
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Jodie Foster and the Great Lesbian Hope
What would happen if Jodie
Foster came out publicly? We'd celebrate and annoint her our
leader...until she proved she was only human, after all. |
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Unattractive
Lesbians
Ivette on Big Brother 6 might be a pretty,
chic, and feminine lesbian, but she isn’t a very thoughtful
one. |
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Library
Lessons Hillsborough
County, Florida is the latest to de-gay the libraries and refrain
from supporting gay events. |
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Hillary...a
Lesbian? Today it’s not only detestable
to be a lesbian, it’s offensive to know a lesbian,
according to The Truth About Hillary. |
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Hollywood Lesbians While it’s ultra-cool
to be thought of as lesbian or bi in Hollywood, it’s not
so hip anywhere else these days. |
