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“Gay Cure” Now Off the Market: Exodus International Says a Healing Goodbye to...

by Jessica Mason McFadden The news is out and on repeat, as usual, only this time: it’s personal, the kind that makes you cry in relief and do a dancey-dance at the same time. How often do we feel that...

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Guante on Being “PC” (It’s Really About Not Being a Jackass)

This video by slam poet Guante nails it as he speaks to those who might think being “un-PC” is being edgy. News-flash: using sexist, racist, ableist or homophobic language is really just being a lazy,...

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FFFF: Olympics Already a Bit Gay

The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion takes aim at homophobia in Russia by pointing out the Olympics have already been a little bit gay. If you liked that and want one easy thing to do to...

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National Day In the Closet (a.k.a.: How to Be a Good Neighbor)

by Jessica Mason McFadden I am writing this because of nightmares. Have you ever been lying in bed, about to fall asleep, and you – while still half awake – begin having a nightmare, and you know...

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Why Our Response to Uganda’s Anti-Gay Laws Isn’t Working

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni by Arwen McKechnie So, as many of you may know, after five long years of advocacy and international pressure against it, the President of Uganda has signed a bill into...

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Uganda’s Homophobic Law Struck Down, But What’s Next?

Good news out of Kampala this week! Justices of the Constitutional Court of Uganda, in their infinite wisdom, have struck down the grotesquely homophobic laws that were signed into law by President...

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Free-Diving Off the Banks of Normal: A Review of Debbie Taylor’s Herring Girl

Debbie Taylor’s release of Herring Girl takes us where we’re not yet comfortable but dying to go: beyond normal. The novel interweaves lives, past and present, in a saga that will make you scoff at the...

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Star Trek’s Official Facebook Page Needs to Tackle Sexist, Racist and...

I grew up watching and loving Star Trek, and just over a year ago I started a side blog called Trekkie Feminist. It wasn’t long after that my attention was drawn to a post filled with some pretty...

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Trekkie Response to Jennifer Lien’s Arrest Disappoints

If you’re at all involved in Star Trek fandom online, you’ve almost certainly read the news story about Jennifer Lien’s arrest. Lien played Kes on Star Trek: Voyager for the show’s first three...

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The Mormon Church Has Out-Mormoned Itself

I left the Mormon church in 2005. I unapologetically refer to it as a cult, and not a single Sunday goes by that I am not thankful to have escaped. It feels strange, so many years later, to be shaking...

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