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Celebrating 300 Years of LGBT Fashion

Celebrating 300 Years of LGBT Fashion | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The website for the Museum at FIT's latest exhibit, A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk, boasts famous names like Christian Dior and Alexander McQueen, so I...

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LGBTI teens take to Twitter with messages of acceptance

LGBTI teens take to Twitter with messages of acceptance | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

LGBTI teen support organisation Minus 18 asked about the issues facing LGBTI people in high school in a Twitter conversation on Monday night, getting young people from all over Australia talking about their own painful and uplifting experiences.

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Steven And Roger Ham, Gay Dads, Adopt 14 Kids To Create Amazing Happy Ending

Steven And Roger Ham, Gay Dads, Adopt 14 Kids To Create Amazing Happy Ending | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Steven and Roger Ham say they didn't set out to become "superdads," but the Arizona couple have certainly earned the moniker as the proud parents of seven boys and seven girls. Despite living in a state where gay ...
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Presbyterian Church in Minnesota Installs Noted Lesbian Pastor, Activist

Presbyterian Church in Minnesota Installs Noted Lesbian Pastor, Activist | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A well-known lesbian pastor and activist has a new place of employment at a Presbyterian church in Minnesota.

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SFU first college hockey team in Canada to partner with You Can Play

SFU first college hockey team in Canada to partner with You Can Play | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Making sports more welcoming to gay athletes, one locker room at a time (@sfuhockey first college hockey team in Canada to partner w/ @YouCanPlayTeam to welcome gay players.
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Upcoming campus mag plans LGBT focus

Upcoming campus mag plans LGBT focus | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Upcoming campus mag plans LGBT focus Berkeley Beacon (subscription) However, junior journalism majors Frankie Olito and Jaclyn Diaz, both former Beacon staff members, have found a topic yet to be explored, which led them to create VENT, Emerson's...
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How to Introduce a Married Gay Couple - New York Times

How to Introduce a Married Gay Couple - New York Times | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Every other Tuesday, Steven Petrow, the author of “Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners” (Workman, 2011), addresses questions about gay and straight etiquette for a...

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Local lesbian overcomes criticism, shines at CBOT

Local lesbian overcomes criticism, shines at CBOT | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Virginia McGathey endured countless verbal attacks during her early years working at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

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Transgender teen crowned Homecoming Queen at Calif. high school

Transgender teen crowned Homecoming Queen at Calif. high school | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A transgender student made history Friday night when she was elected crowned homecoming queen at an Orange County, Calif. high school. (Transgender teen crowned Homecoming Queen at Calif.

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Joe. My. God.: Lesbian Athlete Becomes First Woman To Row Solo From Japan To Alaska

Joe. My. God.: Lesbian Athlete Becomes First Woman To Row Solo From Japan To Alaska | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Out British athlete Sarah Outen yesterday completed a 150-day solo row from Japan to Alaska, becoming the first woman to do so. And along the way, she got engaged.

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Op-ed: 5 Questions to Ask Before Tying the Knot - Advocate.com

Op-ed: 5 Questions to Ask Before Tying the Knot - Advocate.com | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Depending on the destination, a married person could well find himself denied the most basic of rights like making health care decisions for his spouse or even visiting him...

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Atlanta May Get Its First Gay Black City Councilman

Atlanta May Get Its First Gay Black City Councilman | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Jon Jones is seeking to make history is Atlanta, a city with a strong LGBT population of color, by becoming the first black gay man elected to the Atlanta City Council.

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David Bowie Is . . . opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario

David Bowie Is . . . opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

So it's here, finally, the Art Gallery of Ontario's much-hyped, glitzy, glossy, technology heavy homage — masquerading as an intellectualized cultural-studies project — to David...

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Instagram Photo of the Day

Jajajaja #thelittlemerman #gay #gaystagram #instagay #gaydisney #gaylife #gayboys #fun #Lol #diasdeestupidez #pprs
pprsking's photo on Instagram (Jajajaja #thelittlemerman #gay #gaystagram #instagay #gaydisney #gaylife #gayboys #fun #Lol… http://t.co/hUc8oQ7EUh)...
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Former President George HW Bush serves as witness at lesbian wedding in Maine

Former President George HW Bush serves as witness at lesbian wedding in Maine | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Former President George H.W. Bush served as a witness at a same-sex wedding over the weekend.

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Canadian church bars gay student from volunteering with children

Canadian church bars gay student from volunteering with children | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
A 20-year-old Saint Thomas University student says that a Canadian church dismissed him from his job volunteering in the children's ministry because of his sexual orientation. In a Monday interview with Global News, Colin ...
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Photo of the Day - #Gay #LGBT #boys #gaypride2013

Photo of the Day - #Gay #LGBT #boys #gaypride2013 | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
... one of the many awesome photos and videos on Mobli! (#Gay #LGBT #boys #gaypride2013 #man http://t.co/6NoLk7lmzo)
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San Diego Gay Men's Chorus among performers at new library dedication

San Diego Gay Men's Chorus among performers at new library dedication | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The new building is a huge improvement over the previous Central Library, and will include a 350-seat auditorium, an...

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Pastor Punishes Gay Church Member Because Other Members of the Congregation Are Bigots

Pastor Punishes Gay Church Member Because Other Members of the Congregation Are Bigots | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Pastor Mark Brewer of Crosspoint Wesleyan Church in Fredericton, New Brunswick had to deal with a potential crisis this past week. One of the finest members of his church, 20-year-old Colin Briggs, had been a camp ...
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Report: LGBT seniors suffer health disparities, economic insecurities

LGBT seniors suffer health disparities and economic insecurities that are compounded over the course of a lifetime with devastating effects, according...

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Scholar Cary Crall Reflects on Conference for Gay & Lesbian Mormons

Scholar Cary Crall Reflects on Conference for Gay & Lesbian Mormons | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
  When my Mormon ancestors first trekked the thousands of miles from the Eastern United States to Utah’s Salt Lake Valley, it was to escape persecution because of their non-traditional views on mar...
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This Study Confirms Everything You Thought About Lesbian Parents

This Study Confirms Everything You Thought About Lesbian Parents | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The kids are just fine, thank you very much. Actually, they're better than your kids.

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Community Loses Past GLAA President

Community Loses Past GLAA President | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

And the Immigration Equality honor was hardly isolated, with Brick recognized as a Rainbow History Project ''Community Pioneer'' and by the nonpartisan Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of...

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Fiction Author Shares His Story and Future Ambitions

Fiction Author Shares His Story and Future Ambitions | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Here is a new interview as part of the “Transitions” project.  I do not know what I would do without Twitter.
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Engineering Group Takes Heat Over Anti-Gay Letter

Engineering Group Takes Heat Over Anti-Gay Letter | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

In the controversial letter to the editor published in the September issue, Wayne Helmer, a professor at Arkansas Tech University, questioned whether all types of...

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