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My Battle Cry
How do you describe what it feels like when you wake up for the first time? That is how The Advocate's arts and entertainment editor, Corey Scholibo, felt as he protested the passing of Proposition 8 at the Mormon Temple in Los Angeles on Thursday. Formerly a cynic when it came to the marriage fight, Scholibo now sees this moment as the first time his complacent generation got a real taste of the fight for our rights and thinks it may have been just what they needed.
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The new face of gay conservatives
Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and a majority of governorships. Now a new wave of openly gay conservatives wants to put gay rights on the agenda in George Bush's America
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Oped Conversion Therapy Found Me My First Boyfriend
An attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center shares his own story of surviving conversion therapy and exposes its dangers during a series of community meetings.
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A Gay Man Says He Was Tormented at Liberty University. Now He's Suing
Lucas Wilson is not just taking on the one-time home of Jerry Falwell, but the Education Department for enabling the university.
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LGBTQ+ education nonprofit GLSEN lays off 60% of staff in major relaunch
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