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When I stopped working for youth-focused sex education, I thought the political bullshit would be left far behind me. I thought that by working with adults, I would finally be able to speak openly about sexual behavior, anatomy, health and...
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Kristin Davis, the so-called Manhattan Madam who went to jail for sleeping with New York governor Elliot Spitzer, may make her own run for the state's highest office this year, reports the New York Daily News. Davis, calling herself "the...
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President Obama started the new year off with a move that was sure to please the LGBT community. On January 4, 2010, Obama appointed Amanda Simpson to the Commerce Department as the Senior Technical Adviser, making her the first...
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With a population of 9 million, Mexico City has more people than 40 of America’s 50 states. It also has more Catholics than any American state except California. In fact, Mexico City is the 2nd largest Catholic city in the world (after Sao Paulo,...
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I’m on my way home from Denver, where I testified as an expert witness at a deeply troubling trial—a trial that’s become way too common in America.
Here’s the situation: The defendant “Mr. Jones” goes into a Yahoo adult chat-room, and makes it...
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Remember playing with photos and scissors as a young teen? You’d make collages: your scrawny face on a caveman’s body, your friend’s body with the head of a dog, you and a movie star on a beach in Hawaii. Silly adolescent stuff, harmless.
Now what...
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Yesterday was International Human Rights Day.
On such a day, we think of journalists and political activists who are jailed, tortured or killed; people so poor they have no toilets or clean water; people forced to live under brutal religious...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:58am By Chris Hall
On Monday, CarnalNation wrote about the links between American fundamentalists and the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would make being an HIV-positive gay or lesbian a capital crime, and which seems almost certain to pass. Shamefully, it...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 1:36pm By Chris Hall
More than 3,500 registered New York sex offenders have had their Facebook and MySpace accounts deleted, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday. The mass purge was the result of a piece of legislation passed last year called...
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About 20 activists in China started off World AIDS Day by interrupting an official event in Beijing, demanding that the government address the country's unsafe blood supply. Wearing medical masks with the words "Infected blood transfusions cause...
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Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church (left)
and Ugandan Minister Martin Ssempa (right).
The Ugandan anti-homosexuality law, which would make same-gender sex punishable by imprisonment and apply the death penalty to lesbians and gays who are...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3:53pm By Chris Hall
Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was only four years old when H.L. Mencken died in 1956, but since then, he seems to have taken Mencken's famous definition of puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy" as...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 3:21pm By Chris Hall
Anti-abortion rights group American Right to Life has promised that when Sarah Palin reaches the state of Indiana to promote her new ghost-written autobiography, Going Rogue, she can expect to face demonstrations against her pro-choice politics.
Yes...
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This month's column is written by Ricci Levy, the Executive Director of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and one of its founders.
BACKGROUND
A hearing took place over the last two Mondays in Washington, DC on a piece of legislation proposed by...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 1:52pm By Chris Hall
Last night's elections were a mixture of defeat and victory for LGBT issues across the country. The biggest disappointment of course, was the passage of Question 1 in Maine, which reversed legislation passed this May legalizing same-sex marriage....