The AggreGAYtor: November 19
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
By David Estlund, 8:30AM, Wed. Nov. 19, 2014
Texas justice grinds on, Obamacare rolls forward, and Michiganders go underfoot, as your AggreGAYtor gets back to "The Comeback."
The Good
Texas gets a big marriage media push.
Obamacare has decreased our community’s uninsured by 24%.
LGBTQ healthcare has a fierce advocate in medical colleges.
The National Cathedral welcomes Muslims to Friday prayer.
Mississippi’s marriage ban may be overturned within days.
The Bad
Over 300 Michigan marriages have just been erased.
Activist, journalist, and “revolutionary communist” Leslie Feinberg has died at 65.
The Fugly
Russia cracks down around Mykki Blanco.
The Texas man who beat and kidnapped another man, allegedly for being gay, has been sentenced to 15 years.
Another Texas man under charges of attacking a lesbian couple and murdering one of them is finally coming to trial.
It Came from the Tubes
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