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Late Thursday night Jay-Z, who brought back the hyphen but not the umlaut, dropped 4:44, an album that on the first…
Feb 17 2017
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Gavin Grimm, a transgender teenager from Gloucester, Virginia, has been fighting to use the boys’ bathroom for over…
Jul 26 2016
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On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people (though 3,100 RSVPed on Facebook) gathered to build a “great wall of love”…
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On Tuesday, National Journal reporter Daniel Newhauser asked House Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions…
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Sarah, a 17-year-old Texas girl whose extended family says her parents forced her to attend a residential Christian…
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Over one million people have signed an online petition calling for a boycott of Target stores after the chain…
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Just two weeks after announcing their plans to “open a new global operations center” in Charlotte, NC that would…
Mar 9 2016
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On Monday afternoon at 4 p.m., eight Missouri Democrats began what would turn into the longest filibuster in state…
Mar 8 2016
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Jan 14 2016
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The 2016 Academy Award nominations didn’t have to be so white, straight, and boring. Tangerine, Straight Outta…
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On Monday, Gov. Chris Christie responded to a question about transgender bathrooms by talking about terrorism in a…
Dec 11 2015
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Over 24 religious colleges and universities have obtained exemptions from Title IX federal civil rights protections…
Dec 1 2015
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A 20-year-old Marine has been convicted of killing a Filipina woman after he discovered she was transgender. Lance…
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When I called Jacob Tobia, 24, they put me on hold. “I’m just gonna take off one dangly earring so that it’s not…
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Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced new guidelines classifying people in same-sex…
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Oct 2 2015
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Kim Davis, a famously ineffective Kentucky county clerk, has been strutting all over the fucking media, being like…
Aug 18 2015
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On Tuesday, the White House announced that it had hired its first openly transgender staffer, Raffi…