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Your App Isn’t Helping The People Of Saudi Arabia
On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious...
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Our Thoughts On Overwatch’s Tracer Being Gay
With the release of Overwatch’s holiday comic, gamers saw the game’s first openly gay character: Tracer. Many of us here at Kotaku, an Overwatch fansite, took time to sit down and reflect on how...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Have a Duty: Be Rude to the Trumps – VICE
Don’t stop your dog from barking at them. Don’t take their money. If you’re making coffee for them, make it wrong. Last week, Donald Trump was elected president by the United States. But he wasn’t...
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Coachella Owner Donates to LGBT Hate Groups, Denies Climate Change, Has Koch...
Philip Anschutz. Image via AP. This week, the 2017 Coachella line-up was released to a typical flurry of excitement. Along with headliners Kendrick Lamar and Radiohead, the big news was that the...
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Gorsuch Not Easy to Pigeonhole on Gay Rights, Friends Say – NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — Phil Berg was nervous as he prepared to tell Neil Gorsuch he was gay. AIDS was still in the headlines at the time, the early 1990s, and same-sex marriage was a far-fetched notion. Some of...
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Anti-Trans Activist Stumped When Asked if Laverne Cox Should Use the Men’s Room
Still: MSNBC It is absurd that there should be any public discourse examining where people void their bladders and bowels in 2017, and yet that backward and childish discussion illustrates exactly...
View ArticleDisney Just Aired the First Same-Sex Cartoon Kiss in Network’s History | Complex
Just in case you aren’t caught up on new episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, here’s something to inspire you. The Disney XD series recently aired multiple same-sex kisses in the episode “Just...
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Supreme Court Won’t Decide Transgender Teen’s Challenge To Bathroom Policy :...
END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” The case of transgender high school student Gavin Grimm, seen here last year, has been sent back to a...
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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights – The New York Times
The Supreme Court vacated an appeals court decision in favor of a transgender boy, Gavin Grimm, and sent the case back for further consideration in light of new guidance from the Trump administration....
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Authors Forced To Point Out To North Carolina Politicians That A Book Can’t...
Image via Albert Whitman & Company A North Carolina school district was going to use a book about a boy who wears dresses as part of its first grade curriculum on bullying. Wouldn’t that have been...
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Hollywood Is Feeding You Queer Scraps. Stay Hungry
Photos: Lionsgate/Disney Here’s a tale that’s actually as old as time: Sometimes boys kiss boys and sometimes girls kiss girls. The mainstream cultural regard of same-sex love and attraction has...
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LGBTQ Americans Won’t Be Counted in 2020 U.S. Census After All – NBC News
A same-sex couple holds hands. Spencer Platt / Getty Images, file LGBTQ advocacy groups are outraged after proposed questions regarding sexual orientation and gender identity were quickly removed...
View ArticleThe Swarm of Bees Outside Vox Media, Explained – VICE
In Trump’s America, the press is under attack. You know what I’m talking about—in your head, do a montage of Donald Trump saying “fake news,” congressional candidates body-slamming reporters, and so...
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United States rejects UN resolution condemning use of death penalty to target...
So far, no explanation has been given. CREDIT: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews The United Nations approved a resolution Friday condemning the use of the death penalty in a discriminatory fashion, including...
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Twitter Suspended Me for Trolling White Supremacists – VICE
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my...
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This Alabama Dad Is The Hero We Wish We Didn’t Need | Wonkette
Nathan Mathis holding a picture of his late daughter, Patti Sue. WARNING: If you have not seen this video yet, it might make you cry. And if you cry, that will be a sure signal that you are a better...
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Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All...
I’ve told a lot of stories about why I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at the 454 mile mark last summer, though I intended to hike the whole thing, all 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada....
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Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals –...
One officer involved in the city’s massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas “in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them.” Last week, the...
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Tommy Wiseau’s Amazing Joker Audition Proves He’s the Only One for the Role –...
Oh hai, Batman. Last month, Variety reported that Hangover director Todd Phillips was in talks with Joaquin Phoenix to star in the stand-alone Joker origin film—a compelling choice to play the Batman...
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Men Legally Allowed to Finish Sex Even If Woman Revokes Consent, NC Law...
North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says you cannot revoke consent once it’s given. A bill that would remove this “unacceptable loophole” has little traction. Photo by Simone...
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