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What It’s Like to Grow Up Gay in Russia
“I had a career in Russia, a nice apartment, friends, family. I sacrificed all that to be with Ana.”
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Steven Thrasher has been named the 2012 National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association journalist of the year. After gay marriage was legalized in New York last year, he followed two same-sex couples who finally earned the right to consider whether or not they wanted to get married: ‘We never did this saying, “We’re going to […]
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The story of Will and Erwynn, the first gay couple to marry on a military base: At church, Will and Erwynn lead me to a windowless back-room chapel that has been converted from a gym. This is the Sojourn service, a more informal worship than the one taking place in the main hall. They worry […]
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Marriage, Equality and Household Chores
Roxane Gay’s interview with her mother about equality in marriage in The Hairpin.
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Same-sex Couples in the South Left Out of Trend
Buoyed by marriage equality victories on the coasts, same-sex couples are fighting for equality rights in the South: “Not only are gay couples in Mississippi not allowed to marry, they cannot legally adopt — even though a quarter of same-sex couples here are raising children together, the highest percentage of any state, according to the […]
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Wanna Be Veep? Okay, but This is Going to Hurt
A writer goes through “the most invasive process in politics”—being vetted as a running mate by the same person who vetted Sarah Palin in 2008: “It starts unobtrusively enough. ‘So you’re the vice president, and the president is visiting Seoul,’ Frank begins, unspooling an elaborate scenario in which the president’s hotel gets decimated by a […]
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Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don’t
Steven Thrasher has been named the 2012 National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association journalist of the year. After gay marriage was legalized in New York last year, he followed two same-sex couples who finally earned the right to consider whether or not they wanted to get married: “‘We never did this saying, “We’re going to […]
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Here We Are Becoming Champs
On boxer Manny Pacquiao and gay marriage: “It’s here at this church that Manny Pacquiao comes to pray after his fights. He kneels down and gives thanks. In that same way we knelt with a rosary all day when my kuya died of AIDS. All day for seven days, with lots of food, and lots […]
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Whitewashing Gay History
[Not single-page] Liberals’ history with regard to gay rights is not as progressive as some would like to remember: “It was, after all, the trustees of the Smithsonian Institution, not a Bible Belt cultural outpost, who bowed to pressure from the militant Catholic League just fifteen months ago to censor the work of a gay […]
