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HIV/AIDS & Young Women: What You Can Do to Fight For Young Women’s Lives on...
Post by: Patrice Guillory On December 1st, the world will remember almost 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million people have died of HIV-related causes since the beginning of the...
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Will the New Year Bring New Changes?
Happy New Year ya’ll! 2010 was a whirlwind of ups and downs! Downs that included the constant attack on reproductive rights, especially abortion, the failure to pass the DREAM Act and the increase in...
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Happy Birthday Harvey, Your Victory Was Ours
Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of Harvey Milk Day, and what would have been the 81st birthday of our country’s first openly gay politician. As a city supervisor for San Francisco, Milk...
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Gay Rights are Human Rights, Human Rights are Gay Rights
This past Saturday, December 10, marked the 63rd annual celebration of Human Rights Day. Sixty-three years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”....
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Get Out the Vote to Defeat Amendment One in NC!
Yesterday I was startled by a video posted by a young man in Kannapolis, NC. In the video he pulls out a shotgun and shoots a “No on Amendment One” yard sign while discussing how marriage is between a...
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NC Bans Same-Sex Marriage and Domestic Partnerships
Well, the vote is in and it doesn’t look so good. As I mentioned in my previous blog, people in NC voted yesterday on a marriage ban. Last night the constitutional amendment that defines marriage as...
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Sexual Identity Now a Health Risk?
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services released their annual LGBT Issues Coordinating Committee Report. The report outlines nine objectives for advancing LGBT health in the upcoming...
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Anyone Can Be a Survivor of Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is much more than just a women’s issue. Survivors of sexual violence can be male or female, straight or gay, young or old. Anyone can be a survivor. We also know that attackers have...
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Cisgender Privilege: Unlocking the Invisible Bathroom
An Homage to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh [PDF] If you’re asking yourself what in the world “cisgender” (often shortened to “cis”) means, then don’t worry. If you’re not familiar...
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On the SaVe Act, UNC Chapel Hill, and Protecting All Students
Worst case scenario: what do you do if you need to report a sexual assault on your campus? Do you know who to contact? Which department is responsible? Do you need to fill out a form? I was pleasantly...
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Has It Gotten Better? Mormons and Their LGBTQ Congregations
Homosexuality has always been a topic of contention within organized religions, and the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) is no different. In an effort to address the many religiously conflicted gay...
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It’s Clear: We Need to Talk About Russia When We Talk About Human Rights
During my last semester of college, I was required to write a 10-page paper for a political science class on an opposition movement. Which movement we wrote about was left to our discretion; after the...
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