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Artist Frank Pietronigro Turns Anti-Gay Slurs Into Healing Art

Artist Frank Pietronigro Turns Anti-Gay Slurs Into Healing Art | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The need of the arts and sciences are obvious to me so I wish to amplify the concept of changing STEM education to STEAM education (Science,...

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Methodists Reinstate Pastor, Deepening Church's Rift Over Gays - New York Times

Methodists Reinstate Pastor, Deepening Church's Rift Over Gays - New York Times | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A Methodist pastor who was defrocked because he presided at the wedding of his gay son is being reinstated in a startling reversal by a large Protestant...

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HRC Targets LGBT African Americans in 'Freedom Summer' Conference

HRC Targets LGBT African Americans in 'Freedom Summer' Conference | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The fight for freedom of both African Americans and LGBT people, and those who are both, is the focus of the Human Rights Campaign's Freedom Summer Conference this...

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GLAAD And Instagram Launch #PridePortraits Photo Campaign

GLAAD And Instagram Launch #PridePortraits Photo Campaign | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

"Images of loving LGBT families are at the heart of support for equality," GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement.

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Triumph of the Sexy Nerd: Gay Millennials Reject the Chelsea Boy

Triumph of the Sexy Nerd: Gay Millennials Reject the Chelsea Boy | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

As for Chelsea, as the eponymous Chelsea Boys aged into muscle daddies and bears, the next generation of gay men established gayborhoods first in Hell's Kitchen and the East Village, and, more recently, Williamsburg and Bushwick. "Brooklyn," says McGovern, "is the center of the 'new attractive,' the new East Village."

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New York's 1st Openly Gay Congressman Gets Married

New York's 1st Openly Gay Congressman Gets Married | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

New York's first openly gay member of Congress has married his longtime partner. Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney exchanged vows Saturday with Randy Gene Florke at the Church of St.

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A Guide Who Knows the Turf - New York Times

A Guide Who Knows the Turf - New York Times | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Karen Loewy, a lawyer at Lambda Legal, an organization that worked on the cases, said that wrangling over lease rights is just one among many battles that gay and lesbian apartment dwellers...

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Timing Obama's Next Gay-Rights Move

Timing Obama's Next Gay-Rights Move | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Many companies that do business with the government already have such protections in place, as do some states and municipalities.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at Lambda Legal 14th Annual Reception in Nation's Capitol

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at Lambda Legal 14th Annual Reception in Nation's Capitol | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Last night, Lambda Legal hosted its 14th annual Washington, D.C. reception at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States and Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal Executive Director, were the featured speakers.
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Adventures in Gay History With Oscar Wilde

Adventures in Gay History With Oscar Wilde | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The professor's specialty is the representation of homosexuality in ancient Greek art and literature, he says, but his interest in gay history extends to other key periods, such as...

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StandOUT Expo - Atlantic City - September 26-28, 2014

StandOUT Expo - Atlantic City - September 26-28, 2014 | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

StandOUT Expo will be Atlantic City’s first LGBT business to business and business to community weekend event. It will take place September 26 – 28, 2014 in Atlantic City.

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Department of Interior Enlisting Scholars' Help to Incorporate LGBT History

Department of Interior Enlisting Scholars' Help to Incorporate LGBT History | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The U.S. Department of the Interior is hosting a panel discussion of historians, scholars and preservationists today to discuss ways to educate the public about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history.

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The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Myanmar

The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Myanmar | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Aung Myo Min peered over his soda with a wide smile on his face. As the Executive Director of Equality Myanmar, he recounted spending most of the past quarter century as a political exile in Thailand. Excited to be back, he hurriedly told us about the many issues facing Myanmar’s LGBT community and how they intersected with the human rights concerns of women, ethnic minorities and religious minorities in the rapidly changing Southeast Asian country.

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Biden: Gay Rights Take Precedence Over Culture

Biden: Gay Rights Take Precedence Over Culture | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation...

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Gay Pride Is For White People

Gay Pride Is For White People | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
“Pride” season is upon us, and it’s no secret, except perhaps to white people, that gay pride parades are very white, hollow things. They usually take place in “gayborhoods,” which are usually affluent communities predominated...
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Lambda Legal Joins Lawsuit Seeking End to Discriminatory Marriage Ban in Puerto Rico

Lambda Legal Joins Lawsuit Seeking End to Discriminatory Marriage Ban in Puerto Rico | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Today in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Lambda Legal filed an amended complaint seeking to end the discriminatory limits on marriage in Puerto Rico.
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Gay Men & the Presidents Who Loved Them

Gay Men & the Presidents Who Loved Them | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Not long ago, the notion of the First Couple spending a long weekend with a gay one, let alone advertising it to the press, would have presented the White House Chief of Staff with a PR headache.

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Assisted-living complex to serve desert's gay seniors

Assisted-living complex to serve desert's gay seniors | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
A new residential complex designed to cater to the needs and issues of LGBT seniors is expected to open this summer in Palm Springs. (RT @SerenaWorthy: Palm Springs market-rate assisted-living complex designed with #LGBT elders in mind.
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The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century

The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
It was the role photography played for the LGBT community between the time of the medium's invention and the first-ever Pride parades as it came to document, and validate by making visible, the love of queer couples — love ...

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Dutch 'gay-only village' hoax fools press

Dutch 'gay-only village' hoax fools press | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Dutch media have hit out after the authorities in a southern city took part in an elaborate hoax announcing the construction of a "gay-only" village.

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Maine Could Make History With Gay Governor, Youngest Out Legislator

Maine Could Make History With Gay Governor, Youngest Out Legislator | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Come November, Maine could make history by electing an openly gay governor and repeat it by voting in the nation's youngest openly gay state legislator.

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State changes course, says it is processing gay marriage paperwork

State changes course, says it is processing gay marriage paperwork | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Scott Walker's administration changed course Wednesday and began processing marriage certificates from the same-sex couples who...

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Photo of the Day: LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent - Bus Stop Ad in Harlem

Photo of the Day: LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent - Bus Stop Ad in Harlem | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Bus stop ad in Harlem... #LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent #LGBTBiz http://t.co/rXGiUtWx7C
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For Gay Staffers, a Changing Capitol Hill

For Gay Staffers, a Changing Capitol Hill | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

“People both on and off the Hill were just looking for someone to talk to,” said Lynden Armstrong, a GLASS co-founder who now works as director of communication and technology integration...

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The end of gay history

The end of gay history | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Gay culture didn't lose its political edge, gay media went bankrupt. I've been telling for folks for years that none of us can afford to keep doing this much longer.

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