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How the Battle for Marriage Equality Impacts Kids
Breaking it down, kid-style. “Mom, what’s Proposition 47 about?” My ten-year-old son asked this as we drove past a house bedecked with election signs. “I’m not sure yet. I need to look into it,” I...
View ArticleWhere Is the Good News?
As one of the publishers of this website, I have signed up for news alerts for all things LGBT. This means that every day my inbox is inundated with the latest headlines about the issues affecting our...
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What Would Jesus Say About SB 101?
Who Would Jesus Refuse? It’s not often that I page through a Bible, searching for verses. It’s not often I boil with indignation over people taking Jesus’ name in vain. But damn, Indiana, if you didn’t...
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Religious Refusal Bills: The New Battleground for LGBTQ Rights
By now you’ve probably heard that Indiana passed Senate Bill 101, a Religious Refusal Bill (RRB) that grants individuals and business entities the right to deny service to LGBTQ customers, based on...
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George Tubman Takei Creates Underground Railroads for LGBT Hoosiers
VillageQ can share exclusive and confidential reports with our readers in Indiana that George Takei has coordinated safe passageway for LGBT Hoosiers seeking refuge in Canada. Takei’s Underground...
View ArticleThe Reality of LGBT Families
The headline that popped up in my email from my Google alerts read, “Mormon Leader Denounces LGBT Families as Counterfeit.” That’s the kind of headline I can’t resist. It calls to mind the image of...
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Earth Day: Gay and Green
“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election,” said Philippine’s former first lady Imelda Marcos.” In this remarkably disturbing quote prior to her political undoing in 1986, we are reminded that...
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Sylvia Driskell v EVERY SINGLE HOMOSEXUAL IN THE WORLD
The gay blogosphere has been set ablaze with the news that we are being sued. We, as in all of us. All homosexuals. On the planet. We’re all being sued. By Sylvia Driskell. Of Nebraska. On behalf of...
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In Hypocrisy We Trust: LGBT Americans and the Republican Party
A friend of mine used to fume when he encountered gay Republicans or read about them in the news. “They’re like the Jews who supported Hitler,” he explains. While nobody is rounding up gays and killing...
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Marriage Equality in Ireland is Bad for Minorities in the World
PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY It was a wonderful day for most citizens of Ireland on Saturday, May 23rd because the people voted in favor of marriage equality. The news spread quickly as gays and allies alike...
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Same-sex Marriage and the Slippery Slope: Comparing Chalk to Cheese
The Supreme Court’s term comes to an end this month. All eyes are on Washington as we wait for SCOTUS’s decision concerning the fate of same-sex marriage in the United States. Although I am as eager as...
View Article7 Things I Destroyed This Week in Honor of the Destruction of Marriage...
This week in political buffoonery, Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum signed a pledge that describes LGBT parents as “unconscionable and destructive” and aligned...
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Where Were You When You Heard the SCOTUS News?
Last Friday, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. Same-sex marriage is no more–there is only marriage now. We asked VillageQ contributors where they...
View ArticleThe Vulnerability of Marriage Equality
These days, there seems to be an overabundance of cynicism, misinformation, and apathy when it comes to American politics. I often hear people—gays and gay allies included—claim that there’s no...
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Target Goes Beyond Gender Stereotypes
When you think of Target, do you think of: A) the place you go for a package of toilet paper and come out with sixteen different household items? B) that little bull terrier (whose name, I just...
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Jerusalem Pride 2015 and its Aftermath
Three weeks ago, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed six people at Jerusalem’s annual LGBTQ pride march. One victim, 16-year old Shira Banki, died of her wounds several days later. The assailant,...
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From Israel: Trust Me
Sounds of violence swirl around me like last month’s dust storm. Military helicopters roaring overhead. Phones buzzing with real-time alerts of more bloodshed. Extremists demonizing “the other,” and...
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In the Wake of Marriage Equality: What Next?
There’s been a lot of talk about what to do next now that marriage equality is the law of the land. Sure we need to be vigilant to ensure that these gains aren’t reversed and that the Kim Davises of...
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Let’s Be the Allies Our Muslim Neighbors Need
Dear VillageQ Family, My heart is breaking for my Muslim friends. The Islamophobic rantings, the characterization of Muslims as terrorists, the unconscionable suggestions that Muslims be banned or...
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