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Lesbian Parents In Texas May Be Forced To Move Apart Because They Can’t Legally Marry

Jessica WakemanMay 21, 2013 //
Gay Teen Targeted
kaitlyn hunt
Kaitlyn Hunt battling charges for consensual same-sex relationship. Read More »
RI Legalizes Gay Marriage
lesbian brides
Rhode Island has legalized same-sex marriage! Read More »
What Queerness Means
My queerness includes attraction to men and that's okay. Read More »
On Gays & Attraction
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Just because Shanelle is gay doesn't mean she's attracted to all women. Read More »
lesbian moms

Page Price and Carolyn Compton are a pair of moms living in Texas. They have been together for three years and are raising two children that Compton had with her ex-husband. But the couple may be forced by a court to move apart due to a “morality clause” in Compton’s custody agreement with her ex that said no sexytimes overnight guests could sleep at the home — and the longtime, cohabitating couple are not legally allowed to marry by Texas law. Keep reading »

Gay Marriage Is Legal In Minnesota

NewserMay 15, 2013 //

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill today that legalizes gay marriage, making the state the 12th to do so. Cheering spectators filled the south lawn of the state Capitol for the outdoor ceremony, with rainbow and American flags fluttering in a sweltering breeze. Dayton’s signature came one day after the state Senate approved the measure. Read more on Newser…

Rep. Michele Bachmann Urges “Spiritual Warfare” Against Marriage Equality, Reproductive Rights

Jessica WakemanMay 14, 2013 //
Teen Stands Up To Sex Ed
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Katelyn Campbell just said no to her school's abstinence-only sex ed. Read More »
No "Feminist" Blog
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Beliefnet wouldn't use the word "feminist" on a blog. Read More »
Nutso Religious Graphic
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Your slutty behavior is killing flowers (or something?). Read More »
Michele Bachmann
  • Rep. Michele Bachmann is urging Christians to engage in “spiritual warfare” to put their religious values in government, like banning marriage equality and criminalizing abortion. Scary, scary stuff. [Raw Story]
  • In related I’m-moving-to-Canada news, North Carolina’s state Senate has advanced a bill that erroneously lists abortion as a cause of premature birth. Although the medical community vehemently disagrees, abortion opponents frequently claim that abortion causes breast cancer or makes it difficult for women to have children in the future. The NC bill includes abortion as a cause of “preterm birth” up there with drug use lack of prenatal care. [RH Reality Check]
  • On Planned Parenthood and the real lessons of the Kermit Gosnell case. [The Daily Beast]
  • “Elementary” actress Lucy Liu on the limits placed on her for being an Asian actress in Hollywood. [xoJane]
  • On the inappropriate comments being made about Angelina Jolie losing her natural breasts to a double mastectomy, which she chose to have to prevent breast cancer. [Slate] Keep reading »

Minnesota’s Rep. Peggy Scott Says “My Heart Breaks” Over Marriage Equality Win

Jessica WakemanMay 10, 2013 //
Today's Lady News photo
  • Minnesota’s state House has advanced a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage … [Feminist.org]
  • … which has one Minnesota Republican named Rep. Peggy Scott very upset. “My heart breaks for Minnesota,” she said. Deal with it. [Raw Story]
  • Microsoft has named Amy Hood as its first-ever female CFO. [The Daily Beast]
  • Here’s how to participate in a national call-in for Kiera Wilmot, the teen girl in Florida who was expelled, arrested and charged with a felony all for a science project gone wrong. [Crunk Feminist Collective]
  • ABC News producer Dawn Ennis has come out to her colleagues as transgender, asking now to be referred to as “Dawn” instead of “Don,” and henceforth dressing in her gender at the office. [Cosmopolitan] Keep reading »

Watch This: When Did You Choose To Be Straight?

Winona Dimeo-EdigerMay 9, 2013 //
The Gay Agenda
Walk the dog, cook dinner, break up a heterosexual marriage. Read More »
Golden Girls On Gay Marriage
Sophia Petrillo sums it up perfectly! Read More »
Gay Marriage Ad
This marriage equality ad will give you chills. Watch »
"I was born that way."

This video has been around for a few years, but it’s making the rounds again and I think it’s always worth watching–and thinking about. The premise? An interviewer asks a number of straight people for their thoughts on the whole “Do gay people choose to be gay?” debate, and then follows up with a version of the question gay people get asked all the damn time: “When did you choose to be straight?” Reactions range from surprised to confused to genuinely thoughtful. A few people even change their answers entirely. Hit play to check it out. [YouTube via Upworthy]

Rhode Island Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage!

Jessica WakemanMay 6, 2013 //
France Legalizes Gay Marriage
France becomes the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage. Read More »
NZ Passes Gay Marriage
And parliament breaks into song to celebrate! Read More »
Nancy Reagan Loves Gays
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Hey, GOP: even Nancy Reagan supports marriage equality. Read More »
lesbian brides
  • Rhode Island became the 10th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage last week! The state House and Senate both approved marriage equality and the governor signed it into law on Thursday. Congratulations, Rhode Island! [Feminist.org, Salon]
  • Today In Irony: the Air Force’s chief of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman. [HyperVocal]
  • The cost of birth control is higher in some low-income neighborhoods than in wealthy ones, according to a small study done in Florida. [Huffington Post]
  • Will this TED talk turn every man who watches it into a feminist? [Upworthy]
  • Meet Holly Jacobs, 29, who stood up to an ex-boyfriend who posted private pictures of her on revenge porn websites. [BetaBeat]
  • Good news, gays! You can change, just like rapists and murderers, according to Christian wackadoodle Pat Roberson. [Think Progress] Keep reading »

France Becomes 14th Country To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Amelia McDonell-ParryApril 23, 2013 //
NZ Passes Gay Marriage
And parliament breaks into song to celebrate! Read More »
Gay Marriage Wins
"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »
Obama On Gay Marriage
Barack Obama photo
The president comes out in support of same-sex unions! Read More »

Merveilleux! Great news out of the land of cheese and wine today — France has become the 14th country to legalize gay marriage! The decision — 331-225 was the final tally in the National Assembly — comes after months of heated debate and public protests. France’s justice minister, Christiane Taubira, said the first weddings could be as soon as June. Last week, New Zealand also legalized same-sex marriage, though it was less controversial there. Now, if only the United States would get with it… [AP]

Hey, Conservatives: Even Nancy Reagan Supports Marriage Equality

Jessica WakemanApril 17, 2013 //
Gay Marriage Wins
"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »
Sonia On Gay Marriage
sonia sotomayor
Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasts discrimination against gays. Read More »
The Gay Agenda
Walk the dog, cook dinner, break up a heterosexual marriage. Read More »
nancy reagan
  • Former First Lady Nancy Reagen supports marriage equality, according to a new Sirius interview with her daughter Patti Davis. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Religious Right! In the interview, Davis explained her mother does support the legalization of gay marriage but emphasized that Reagan “is not comfortable going out in the public eye and getting in the firing line of anything.” Okay, that last part is kind of shitty. But I’m still happy to hear even Nancy friggin’ Reagan believes all love is created equal. [Huffington Post]
  • On how poverty drove women into Kermit Gosnell’s illegal abortion clinic. [Think Progress]
  • A Philadelphia priest allegedly sexually assaulted a woman and smeared menstrual blood on her face and then told detectives he couldn’t speak about the assault because it happened at confession. The church then sent him to Poland. [AlterNet]
  • Oh, look, another Internet shitstorm about feminism! [Daily Dot] Keep reading »

New Zealand Parliament Passes Marriage Equality Law, Breaks Into Song

Winona Dimeo-EdigerApril 17, 2013 //
Golden Girls On Gay Marriage
Sophia Petrillo sums it up perfectly! Read More »
'I'm Gay' Cake
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A girl named Laurel comes out to her parents with an "I'm gay!" cake. Read More »
Gay Marriage Wins
"TIME" magazine declares that gay marriage has already won. Read More »
Watch the joyous moment!

Today New Zealand became the 14th country (counting France, which will make it official with a final vote next week) to legalize same-sex marriage, and they rang in equality in grand style. Once the vote was announced, the gallery cheered, and then a voice from the balcony started singing the traditional love song, “Pokarekare Ana,” which includes the following lyrics (translated):

“I have written you a letter, and enclosed with it my ring. If your people should see it, then the trouble will begin… My poor pen is broken, my paper is spent, But my love for you endures, and remains forever more.”

Skip to 1:20 to see the joyous moment! [YouTube via Think Progress]

Judge Won’t Grant ‘Pregnant Man’ Thomas Beatie A Divorce

NewserMarch 30, 2013 //

Welcome to the world’s most confusing divorce case. A judge in Arizona today declined to grant a divorce to Thomas Beatie, who attained minor celebrity status as the “pregnant man” a few years back and gave birth to three children. Beatie, who was born a woman but identifies as a man, married wife Nancy in Hawaii in 2003. But was he a man or a woman at the time? Beatie had undergone a double-mastectomy by then and was starting hormone therapy, but he still had a woman’s reproductive organs, reports AP. The judge today decreed that there wasn’t enough evidence proving Beatie was a man at the time of the wedding. That makes it a same-sex marriage, which means that the state of Arizona doesn’t recognize it. And if the state doesn’t recognize the marriage, it can’t grant a divorce, either. Read more…

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