With everything that’s going down right now and with so many of the world’s environmental problems directly traceable to human overpopulation—we are literally killing everything—you’d think the princes of the Catholic Church would have better things to do with their time than knock that cock out of your mouth. You’d be wrong: Cardinal Timothy Dolan […]
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QDoc Starts Tonight, and This Year’s Selections Are Excellent
Remember back in the Dark Ages, before streaming, when everyone was always sad that we had all these channels but nothing was ever on? (Does this paper have readers young enough to not know that agony?!) Anyway, QDoc, Portland’s annual gay and lesbian documentary film festival, presents the opposite problem: There aren’t a ton of […]
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Horrifying News out of Chechnya: “World’s First Concentration Camp for Homosexuals Since Hitler’s in the 1930s”
President Ramzan Kadyrov, above with the gun, “who is a key ally of Vladimir Putin, allegedly ordered the clampdown,” Daily Mail reports. Getty Images Reports of “mass detentions” were first seen in Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta on April 1. Citing that story, a New York Times story quickly followed. Chillingly, President Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime […]
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Bisexual People Are Fighting Invisibility and Erasure on Twitter
Being the B in LGBT can feel isolating sometimes. Twitter users wanted to change that. Marc Bruxelle Beginning Wednesday, Twitterers across the globe have been celebrating bisexuality and combatting cultural erasure of their identity through the hashtag #BiTwitter. Sure, things trend on social media all the time, but this time, it’s a little different. After […]
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Trump Administration Attacks LGBT Community On Three Fronts Over Last 24 Hours
There are, unbelievably, some “Gays for Trump” out there. I would ask one of them to comment on what the Trump administration has been up to over the last 24 hours… but homosexuals for homophobes didn’t have anything coherent to say the day before yesterday and I can’t imagine they have anything coherent to say […]
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Two Openly Gay Candidates Are Running For Office Up In Anchorage—Or Is It Three? (UPDATE: It’s Three.)
Originally posted Friday at 6:30 PM. Despite the fact that the Anchorage Assembly—their city council—has long had “a dominant progressive bloc,” as Alaska Dispatch News columnist Charles Wohlforth wrote in a recent column assessing the city’s upcoming Assembly races, no openly gay person has ever been elected to the Anchorage Assembly. No openly gay person […]
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After Homophobic Scrawlings, Grant High School Just Got Hit With More-Enlightened Graffiti
At some point Sunday night or early Monday morning, a banner was hoisted in front of Portland’s U.S. Grant High School: “QUEERS BASH BACK!” it proclaimed, before being removed by school leaders. Less easy to remove are a number of stenciled tags on a sign in front of the school, which read “Radical Angry Queers,” […]
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How Transgender Women are Held to a Higher Standard
ANA SOFIA KNAUF As a transgender woman, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about something that most women take for granted: What does it mean to be a woman? Having breasts? Carrying children? Long hair? Dating men? Having pink toys as a child? Many women have some of these characteristics, but no woman I’ve […]
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Fighting for My Womanhood
How Transgender Women are Held to a Higher Standard
How transgender women are held to a higher standard.
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Milo Dropped by Simon & Schuster (Like a Cuck)
News Flash: Medium Talent Gay Blogger loses book deal Bummer, man. Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
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Milo Yiannopoulos: Girls Are In Danger When Adult Trans Women Use Public Toilets But 13-Year-Old Boys Can Benefit From Giving Head To Adult Males
Milo Yiannopoulos was on Real Time on Friday night, where he justified his history of harassing trans women by claiming he’s protecting women and girls from sexual predators. Here’s Yiannopoulos doing his stepin-felch-it routine during the Overtime segment: MAHER: [Reading a question submitted by a viewer.] “Why did you single out a transgender student for […]
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Same-Sex Marriage Will Lead to the Extinction of the Human Race (It’s True! Remember Americans? And Canadians? All Gone Now.)
The debate over same-sex marriage is roaring in Australia, where same-sex marriage is still against the law, and—surprise!—all the failed arguments used against marriage equality in the United States, Canada, the UK, etc., are getting trotted out. For example, here’s some incredibly stupid shit being said in Australia that we heard during the debate here: […]