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 #TBT: Comically Gay
  Is it just us? Because these vintage comics seem super that way. 
   
 Christopher Harrity 
          
          Mar 20, 2014
          
Christopher Harrity
Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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As children, many of us were convinced that the comic books we treasured, and the superheros we worshipped were sending secret messages to us that only we could understand. Herewith, a few examples for Throw Back Thursday.
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The Not-so-Ambiguously Gay Duo
 
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Is it just us? Because these vintage comics seem super that way.

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#TBT: Comically Gay

Is it just us? Because these vintage comics seem super that way.

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Over 40 years ago, Tony Powell left the U.K. for a new life in West Hollywood.The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel, explores just what, or who, he was running from.

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Giovonni Santiago helped create the VA’s first transgender-specific clinic. A decade later, he is watching the government dismantle the system that made its care possible.

Opinion: As reports of Black Americans found hanging from trees evoke the country's history of lynching, queer writer Josh Ackley argues that solidarity across marginalized communities is more urgent than ever.

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The lesbian comedian said she had “no interest” in the Fox News host after his crew confronted her outside a New York theater.

The defense secretary used the slur while campaigning for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, then called the military “gender-neutral.”

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“The goal of ending ‘gender-affirming care’ is not in and of itself an ‘improper’ policy objective,” Judge Carlos Bea wrote.

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