Public Bathroom Policies Change in Philly: Gender-Neutral Restrooms Now Required

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The City of Brotherly Love just became friendlier to the LGBTQ community with a law that requires gender-neutral restrooms in new and renovated buildings as well as other reforms.

Republican Senators File Bill to Legalize Discrimination Against LGBT Citizens of Washington State

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Senator Ed Murray said, “I don’t think we want to go into our civil rights laws and decide who gets served and who doesn’t get served.”

Gay Rings 101

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A brief history of the relationship between homosexuals and marriage.

California May Revoke Boy Scouts Tax Exempt Status Over Gay Ban

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California is now “one step closer” to granting full equality to LGBT youth across the state.

Hey Justice Scalia, Hitler Was Raised By Heterosexuals

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In the DOMA and Prop 8 hearings, Justice Scalia has questioned whether its safe for children to be raised by same-sex parents; he should be careful what he wishes for.

No Money for Adult Bookstores

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Should businesses make decisions on moral grounds?

The NFL Draft and the Objectification of Men

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If you’ve got anything resembling a conscience–and I don’t claim to have much of one–objectifying others in the normal course of business is an unpleasant thing to do.

The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 2

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Join Lola Rainey on a guided tour through American history with her father and uncle, sons of a Texas sharecropper.

Tour Company Bans All Marriage Rather Than Recognize Gay Marriage

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Matt Grubbs is quitting the wedding game altogether to avoid same-sex clients, and he’s doing it legally.

Irresistible Attraction: Some Christian Thoughts Regarding James Knight Firing Melissa Nelson

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Four Christian responses to the myth of “irresistible attraction.”

Bushmaster and the Cult of Masculinity

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Men have some catching up to do with women, in shedding the stigma of gender nonconformity.

Unmarried and Unequal

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Why The Alternatives to Marriage Project fights for unmarried equality.

Middle-class White Guy Exposes Six Signs of Dadscrimination

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From Katherine Heigl movies to the Great Potty Disparity, writer Jerry Mahoney calls out Mommification

What If Being Gay Were A Choice?

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Let us imagine a world where choosing your sexuality is as conscious, and awkward, as sex ed was.

We Teach Racism, Sexism and Discrimination in School

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Nicholas Ferroni wants us to look at “what” we teach along with “how”.

Man vs. Oppression

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Kyle Carpenter’s awareness of his privileges inspire a dual struggle against institutionalized oppression: in the world and within himself.