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Eminem Doesn’t Deserve the LGBTI Community’s Forgiveness

Eminem used the word ‘faggot’ and absolutely no one was shocked. A couple of weeks ago Eminem dropped his surprise album, Kamikaze, featuring one of the diss tracks he’s built his entire career perfecting. But you’d think that someone so known for weaving together insulting tracks could steer away from such lazy expressions like the f-word. I, a weaker writer than this supposed legend, don’t have to resort to slurs. I can just call him a has-been who’s built his relic of a career on the backs of insulting minority groups and such a deep hatred of women I’m surprised […]

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Why I’m Suing Grindr Over Racism

Sinakhone Keodara plans to sue Grindr over countless incidents of racism he has experienced from fellow users on the dating app. Keodara, a 45-year-old gay Asian man, told PinkNews he has been using Grindr “on and off for several years” and has grown tired of the messages he receives from app users. Keodara’s claims follow a long-held discussion around racism on Grindr, including queer pop star MNEK who recently spoke out about the app’s launch of a Kindr  version.“My experiences have been pretty harrowing,” Keodara explained, after receiving a message the previous day asking: “How hung can an Asian be?” “That […]

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A Free Press Needs You

In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” That’s how he felt before he became president, anyway. Twenty years later, after enduring the oversight of the press from inside the White House, he was less sure of its value. “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper,” he wrote. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” […]

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Restrictionists May Cost Republicans Their Majorities in Congress.

  The Editorial Board Are Republicans trying to lose their majorities in Congress this November? We assume not, but you can’t tell from the party’s internal feuding over immigration that is fast becoming an election-year nightmare over separating immigrant children from their parents. This is what happens when restrictionists have a veto over GOP policy. Democrats fanned out across the U.S. this weekend to highlight the turmoil caused by the Trump Administration’s new “zero-tolerance” policy of detaining all adult aliens crossing the border illegally. That means separating parents from children who arrive together because courts have said migrant children can’t […]

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Democratic Unity on Nov. 6 is Crucial

Democrats will keep losing elections if we don’t accept after a primary that we must unite and enthusiastically endorse and vote for the Democrat who will be on the general election ballot. If we learned nothing else from the 2016 presidential election it should be that dithering for a month after the primary before making an endorsement; allowing your supporters to believe it might be OK to vote for a third party or stay home in protest; and not getting your ego under control will all lead to a Republican winning whether it is for the state legislature, the governor’s […]

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Why Hate Crimes Are On The Rosa

Police are looking for three suspects in an anti-gay attack last week. You’ve probably heard all about it by now, or even seen the horrific cell phone video capturing most of it. Just after midnight on Sunday, April 15, two gay men were viciously assaulted on the corner of Vermont Avenue and U Street. Sort of a strange place for such a thing to happen, given that it’s practically in sight of the entrances to three of the city’s busier gay bars, one of which, for better or worse, was recently named the best in the nation. These instances are […]

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Victory Fund Crucial to Electing LGBTQ Candidates

The LGBTQ Victory Fund is “the only national organization dedicated to electing openly LGBTQ people who can further equality at all levels of government.” That makes it one of the most important LGBTQ organizations in the world. The reason it is so important to elect more members of the LGBTQ community is capsulized in what former Rep. Barney Frank often said: “If we are not at the table we will be on the menu.” It has been shown again and again for every minority and interest group, people don’t pay attention to you if you are not in the room. […]

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Even with PrEP, HIV Stigma & Discrimination is Still a Thing

I remember feeling confused and angry the first few times I was blocked or rejected by an online prospect who said they were on PrEP. David Duran I was confused, because—in every case—there was interest right up until I disclosed my HIV status. I started feeling angry when I realized and confirmed that it was because of my HIV status that the guys I was chatting with were no longer interested. I ended up asking one of the guys I was chatting with what had caused him to lose interest, and it wasn’t without some probing that he told me […]

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Trump’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Comment Gravely Impacts its LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

President Trump’s proclivity for racist remarks comes as no surprise to me. His now- infamous comment stating a preference for immigrants coming from a Scandinavian country like Norway than from Africa and Haiti which he depicts as “shithole” countries  with nothing to offer the U.S is based solely on his ignorance (Also, Mr. President, Africa is a continent.). As some matter-of-fact, black African immigrants are the most educated demographic group in the U.S., surpassing those of us born here- black or white. According to the Los Angeles Times, they come from five major countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South African. While […]

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The New Jim Crow Targets LGBTQ Americans, Too

Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig protest Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2012. Courtesy of Dave Mullins Last week the U. S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case “Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.”  The case – which has many of us LGBTQ Americans on pins and needles – will litigate a baker’s rights to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple-Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig-  on the grounds of religious freedom enshrined in the First Amendment. If the case is decided in favor of the baker, Jack Phillips, it will be a colossal blow to civil rights […]

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