Marriage Equality: Making it Their Special Day

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“Today, I think most marriages aim for equality. Let’s move away from making it her special day and start making it their special day.”

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Give and Receive With Two Hands

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“Hold a true friend with both hands.” ~ Kanuri proverb

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The Girls Who Taught Me I Was Gay

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Jeremy Feist waxes nostalgic about the girls he loved before he came out.

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Why We’re Crushing on the Conversation’s Amanda de Cadenet

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Tara Block tells readers why they are crazy about this lovely British TV personality at TrèsSugar.

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She’s Only Just a Friend

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Shawn Maxam consults his phone to count all his female friends.

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“50 Shades of Grey,” “Fight Club,” and the Complications of Male Dominance

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Clarisse Thorn sees nothing new in eroticized images of male dominance and violence, but she sees plenty that’s thought-provoking.

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The 5 People You Meet as a Gay Dad

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Before becoming a gay dad, Jerry Mahoney was worried about what people would say. He has since realized it’s fairly predictable.

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Motorcycles Empower Vietnam’s Women

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Cameron Conaway endures jeers and glares as he tours Saigon on the back of a motorcycle driven by a female tour guide.

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Femmephobia: “Girls Are Gross” Writ Large

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Ozy Frantz explains the difference between fear and hatred of women, and the more common fear and hatred of anything feminine.

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Genderf*kation: A film that asks “why is talking about gender taboo?”

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If you have strict ideas of how gender can be expressed, we’d like to know “why do you care?” Why on earth would talking about gender ever be seen as taboo?

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It Gets Better… With Fists

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Jeremy Feist isn’t proud of himself for having beat someone up, but he is proud of refusing to the the victim of a bully.

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Guilty as Charged

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Society’s expectations of manliness can cause men to keep their passions in the closet.

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This Just In: Attraction Is Complicated

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Ozy Frantz lays out why “men are attracted to X” or “women are attracted to Y” formulations are doomed to failure.

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His Black Dress, Revisited

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Clothing, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Attraction

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Panda Three-Way

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Lynn Beisner re-examines the rite of passage that is “first sex” after learning her son lost his virginity in a three-way with an older couple.

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Two Fathers, No Mother: Crossing the Big Black Line

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William Lucas Walker’s journey from “gay cliché” boyhood to married fatherhood, via love and loss.

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