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catherine-lundoff's picture
Apr.12.2009
In their infinite wisdom, the folks over at Amazon.com have decided that our delicate sensibilities need to be protected from "the gay." Also the lesbian, the transgender, the bisexual, some randomly chosen het romances and the occasional work of pure filth leading to societal collapse...
raul-ramos-y-sanchez's picture
Dec.19.2008
Many in the GLBT community are outraged over the choice of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration.  Certainly Rev. Warren’s homophobic views are no secret. He was a key figure in the success of California’s Proposition  8 that eliminated the right of same-sex...
ruth-perkinson's picture
Feb.28.2008
On Wednesday, March 12th at the Gay Community Center here in Richmond, Virginia, people of all walks of life will gather for a memorial to remember and honor Lawrence King. King was the eighth grader gunned down in front of his classmates in Oxnard, California on February 12th, but the tragedy has...
ruth-perkinson's picture
Feb.25.2008
Hey, all you authors and readers, I just wanted to write a bit here about how I was feeling about the hate crime that happened in Oxnard, CA, last Tuesday, Feb. 12th.  Ten years after Mathew Shepard's untimely death (and the ones in between), I can't believe that an eighth grader is shot to death...