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Talk About Equality · 3d ago

Jim Parsons Comes Out in NY Times Article

Congratulations to Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons for officially coming out via a New York Times article today. The article, an interview about Parsons’ upcoming role in a rare Broadway revival of Harvey, states simply: “”The Normal Heart” resonated with him on a few levels: Mr. Parsons is gay and in
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Talk About Equality · 2W ago

BULLY: The Only Thing That’s Changed is the Part in His Hair

When Mitt Romney was 18 years old, he was a bully. A story in the Washington Post goes into great detail about a time when a high school-aged Romney lead a screaming mob of students to chase, pin to the floor and then physically assault a fellow student they assumed to be gay. They took [...]
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Talk About Equality · 2W ago

Romney ‘Seeks to Establish Full Equality for America’s Gays & Lesbians’…in 1994

The fact that Mitt Romney’s opinions change more frequently than a traffic light is no surprise to anyone. But as the marriage debate continues to heat up, and as he makes claims that his opposition to equality is somehow the same stance he’s always had, it seems we need to once again, check his rec
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Talk About Equality · 2W ago

We Will Not Be Erased.

It’s been said that telling our stories is what will make the biggest difference in the end. It’s easy to see the statistics that have changed since more and more people have come out and more and more of our loved ones have changed their minds about support for our equality. Tom Bridegroom was the
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Talk About Equality · 3W ago

Gap Shows Paul Ryan the Door

Earlier this week, an interesting item showed up on Queerty. It seems Gap, Inc., a longtime friend to the LGBT community was hosting a fundraising breakfast for anti-gay Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan is best known for his budget which would drastically cut medicare, social security, possibly double in
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Talk About Equality · 1M ago

If a Married Lesbian Couple Saves 40 Teens from the Norway Massacre and No One Writes About it, Did it Really Happen?

Reblogged from Talk About Equality: Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen. Photo: Maija Tammi By this point, most of you have heard about the tragedy in Norway a few weeks ago when a Christian Fundamentalist* murdered 77** people and injured another 96. The story has been well-covered by International media a
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Talk About Equality · 1M ago

The Men with the Pink Triangle

It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. While no person’s oppression is greater or lesser than another’s, a day like today cannot go by without acknowledging the estimated 15,000 gay men who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. The pink triangle, which in later years became a symbol of freedom for the
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Talk About Equality · 1M ago

Rachel Maddow, Come To Our Wedding!

My friend Lanae, who plays violin with the Capital City Symphony and is one of the coolest LGBT activists I know, is getting married on April 28th. Little did she know when she and her fiancée Laura were planning her wedding, that the one and only Rachel Maddow would be visiting DC at the time. [...
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Talk About Equality · 1M ago

Oscar Wilde Arrested!

On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde was in a long-term relationship with the son of the Marquess for nearly four years. This made the Marquess none too happy and she outed him as a homosexual. Since homosexuality was illega
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Talk About Equality · 1M ago

Maggie’s Flip-Flop on Immigration and Baiting of the Latino Community

In case you haven’t heard or are living under a rock, a couple weeks ago the National Organization for Marriage found themselves in hot water following the release of some internal documents. The NOM papers, which had been released as part of a court agreement in Maine revealed some rather atrocious
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