The AggreGAYtor: June 6
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
3:30PM, Thu. Jun. 6, 2013
The U.S. Senate is possibly maybe on the verge of doing some good, the British House of Lords is actually making progress, and Michelle Obama's impeccable image slips a bit as your AggreGAYtor churns the news.
The Good
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Citizens, write your senators, because they may be on the verge of doing something good for LGBT students.
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An Illinois bishop demonstrates that authoritarianism, while an easy route to comfortable bigotry, does not provide a consistent morality.
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NYC gets a super-squad of vigilante crime fighters in response to recent hate crimes.
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Great Britain’s House of Lords cha-chas toward marriage equality.
The Bad
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Michelle Obama loses her cool amid heckling from a GetEqual protester.
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Anti-LGBT stigma produces health outcome stigmata.
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Certain African nations’ ongoing denial of gay rights as human rights poses a diplomacy dilemma for our Honolulu-born “Kenyan usurper.”
The Fugly
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“Porno Pete” LaBarbera is at it again, this time defending reparative therapy on the steps of HRC headquarters.
It Came from the Tubes
Class warfare never stops, usually fights downward, and we are all complicit. Remember this.
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