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“Straight Pride Parade”: When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
June 7, 2019As baffling as "straight pride" sounds, it's indicative of a misunderstanding of the historical and political implications that Pride holds.
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Formidable challenges face LGBTQ movement in today’s America
May 12, 2017Every advance achieved during the Barack Obama years was targeted for repeal. Egged on by Trump’s attacks on the free press and “political correctness,” bullies of every stripe from the boardroom down to the schoolyard suddenly...
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Rockettes refuse to perform at Trump inaugural
January 1, 2017They told the press that they did not want to perform for a president-elect who is sexist, anti-Latino, anti-LGBT and who threatens their colleagues who are undocumented immigrants working as stage hands.
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This week in history: Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca murdered
August 15, 2016In the beginning weeks of the Spanish Civil War, Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was murdered by fascist soldiers.
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Free speech, or safe spaces? Don’t make students choose
May 17, 2016We must challenge the problematic constructs in society that have driven young activists to seek sanctuary, and provide them with the room to create.
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