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“Yasmin Nair: Eat This!” Or: How to Leave Comments Without Going up In Flames

The classic method used to silence a woman: question her mental health and then drag her through what you fondly imagine is the mud of her sex life.

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The Real Costs of the HIV Ban

“There is no good reason, absolutely no science.”

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Gays All A-Twitter about Amazon: How They Nearly Ended Capitalism But Chose to Hate Porn Instead

Gay love and erotic content are opposed to PORN!  BAD PORN!  NAUGHTY PORN!  DISGUSTING, VILE PORN!

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The Kids Aren’t All Right: The Gay Marriage Movement and its Manipulation of Children and Youth

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How Gay Marriage Put an End to Gay Sex

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Nikki Patin’s body language

Nikki Patin is a Chicago-born performance artist and activist, who has appeared on HBO’s Def Jam.  Her work combines burlesque, spoken word and music to address the themes of body image, race and class.  Patin will be touring New Zealand and Australia from the end of February through April, and is hosting a series of fundraisers in town to pay for the upcoming trip.  She will be signing copies of her book “The Phat Grrrl Diaries” at these events.  Windy City Times spoke to Patin.

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Gay dollars, labor and boycotts

For Eric Stanley, economic boycotts “uphold the free market myth of capitalism in ‘non-boycott’ times.”

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Books about AIDS

“There’s no community around Black women with HIV and AIDS.”

The Day I Stopped Being Pretty by [Lofton, Rodney]
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Is Homosexuality Genetic or Chosen? Does That Matter?

Your gay union card, the grey metallic one, with an embossed pink triangle?  Shredded.

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Let’s Change the Paradigms of Gay Organising

Why are we fighting for the specious rights granted by an outmoded institution?

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