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.

LGBTQ Mentoring Program Transforms Life for Chicago Students

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Lincoln Park High School is a pioneer for a new type of LGBTQ club that gives individuals the support they seek.

Open Thread: Men, How Do You Want to Move Forward? What is Important to You to Talk About?

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What do you want to see covered here? What is important to you that you talk to with your friends, family, or children that you’d like to see here?

Do You Know These 6 Elements That Your Sexuality is Made Of? (Video)

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Hank Green explains the differences between sex, gender, romance, orientation and more.

MTV’s Catfish: New Phenomenon, Same Old Transphobia

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On “Catfish,” Marisa Carroll saw a cute love story. The hosts saw a freak show and let their millions of viewers know it.

Music for Boys

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Why Fiona Apple’s music mattered to Vincent Scarpa, even when he thought it wasn’t supposed to.

Indecisive, Slutty, and Closeted: Bisexual Men in 3 Stereotypes

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Tobias is everything you expect bi men to be, and then some.

Hair and Identity

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In his search for an image, Christopher Banks found himself.

“We need to stop treating female virginity like a treasure and male virginity like a curse.”

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This is a comment by Danny on the post “Can’t Get Laid”.

Gay Day at Disney Meets the Promise Keepers

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Justin Cascio remembers when being out and proud has been a courageous, life-affirming act.

Gay Pride 2012 on The Good Life

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Gay Pride on The Good Life

Everybody’s Trans: Gender Oppression Hurts All of Us

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The freedom of gender expression is not just a trans issue.

Half Court: An FTM Story

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After a long journey, Eli Walker finally has a body that matches his heart’s desire.

Singer Cindy Bullens is Telling the World why “I have decided to be Cidny, a man”

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Shawn Maxam is glad that another public figure is sharing their gender identity story with the world.

Coming Out as Genderqueer at the Age of 50

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If terms like “genderqueer” and “pansexual” had been a part of the cultural dialogue years ago, Lyla Cicero wonders if more people today would be living more authentically.

Masculinity Olympics

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HeatherN explains how masculinity and heterosexuality have traditionally been assumed to be one and the same in our society, and points to how this is changing.