The AggreGAYtor: January 21
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
10:40AM, Tue. Jan. 21, 2014
Putin keeps baitin', LGBTQ smokers get the side eye, and the ghost of MLK gets summoned right and left, as your AggreGAYtor warps hir woof.
The Good
Effective social protest can take a variety of forms, including the humble tee shirt. (Blogs work too.)
Transgender inmates’ right to transition is better protected than it was yesterday.
A good indicator of the benefits of a long-term relationship is whether resources are pooled.
Smoking isn’t punk rock, queer, anti-establishment, or sexy. It’s deadly, and it’s time we cleared the air. (Also, here’s why.)
Trans addiction issues deserve recognition as we work to improve the material conditions that lead to those issues.
The Bad
In post-Soviet Russia, rainbow flag arrests you. Also, Putin believes a “cleansing” is in order. Because cleansing of minorities often goes so well.
The Fugly
Republican State Representative Jonathan Stickland’s tea party cred might be a very recent development.
No, Martin Luther King Junior would not have sympathized with homophobic oppressors.
Mary Matalin’s gay friends might need this advice someday.
It Came from the Tubes
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