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" To believe that someone’s identity is inherently sinful is, to my mind, to be bigoted against them. If you believe black people are sinful and deserve fewer rights, you are racist. If you believe Jews are sinful and deserve fewer rights, you are anti-Semitic. I simply cannot see why those who believe that gays are sinful and deserve fewer rights should be held to a different standard."

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Op-ed: In Defense of Jared Leto

Transsexual acting coach Calpernia Addams on trans roles in Hollywood

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Standoffs continue in Crimea before Kerry-Lavrov talks

Secretary of State John Kerry meets with his Russian counterpart in Paris to discuss the crisis in Ukraine.

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Celebrating black women who are only a certain size and only portray a certain narrative is problematic. Though I’m glad that there are black women and girls who now will walk a little bit taller because of what Nyong’o's talent has done for them, Sidibe has been doing the same thing and is still deserving of her own pedestal.

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The simplest question in Ukraine’s crisis: How do you pronounce Crimea?

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Cry-me-a-river.

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The Critics Are Wrong.  Dallas Buyers Club Is a Great Queer Movie.

When I first saw Dallas Buyers Club back in October, my screening companion and I (both of us queers) went in with a fair amount of trepidation: On paper, the movie seemed like the kind of thing cinema scholars would deem “problematic.” 

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A gay boy chasing love in West Africa—considering my reputation as a foul-mouthed drag queen, my friends didn’t think it was a good idea. But in early February, I did it anyway. I took time off from my nightmare job, packed lash curlers and a Summer’s Eve douche, and went to see a boy in Dakar. I wanted to forget what I’d heard about the recent anti-gay violence in Senegal, Cameroon, and Nigeria; I wanted to start living my damn life. But even as I boarded my plane, I still wondered: Would a homo like me—one who wears a hint of makeup even when she’s out of drag—be safe on “the most homophobic continent” on earth? 

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Very few heads of state could get away with calling gay people ungodly vermin, but that’s what Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh just did. And he didn’t stop there. 

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Gays fleeing Uganda face attacks in refugee camp

Camp in Kenya is no safe haven for LGBTI refugees, say men who have fled again after attacks and death threats

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Has International Intervention Helped or Hurt Bosnia?

The answer matters for world leaders faced with conflicts in countries like Syria and Ukraine.

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by Chelsea Lee E-book readers, like the popular Kindle from Amazon.com, are revolutionizing the way we interact with the printed page. Although most e-book content has leaned toward the nonscholarly, major textbook manufacturers are now partnering with Amazon to produce...

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Young Iranians Continue to Shock the Internet by Being Normal

"People are people everywhere."

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Ellen Page Comes Out as Gay: 'I Am Tired of Lying by Omission' (Exclusive)

Ellen Page has come out as a gay woman. The star of the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past made the announcement in a moving and deeply personal speech delivered before several hundred attendees at Time to Thrive, a conference to promote the welfare of LGBT youth held at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. STORY: Hollywood Reacts to Ellen Page's Coming Out Speech

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel plans to shrink the United States Army to its smallest force since before the World War II buildup and eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets in a new spending proposal that officials describe as the first Pentagon budget to aggressively push the military off the war footing adopted after the terror attacks of 2001.

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Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, died at age 110 on Sunday, a family member said. The accomplished pianist's death came just a week before her extraordinary story of surviving two years in a Nazi prison camp through devotion to music is up for an Oscar.