Time to vote
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Vote, if only to save yourself
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The Trump administration
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LGBT voters: Here’s the one vote you need to make
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Transphobia
Being in middle school is tough. Your body is going through often-mortifying changes: acne, body hair, growth spurts. Your hormones are raging. Kids are...
Ugly politics
Over the last 43 years of this publication, we felt we saw about almost everything you could see in politics. But never did we...
Pride will unite us or divide us
There are people like Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard and Barbara Gittings that give meaning to our fight for equality. And there is no truer...
The final years
It’s not the most pleasant question to think about, but at some point it must be addressed: How do you want to spend your...
The 50 senators who voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh
If you’ve ever wanted to commit sexual assault, now is your chance. I mean, has there ever been a better time, especially for men...
Left outside
In April 2015, a year before the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education under then-President Barack Obama issued guidance to public schools clarifying that...
Don’t cry for us, Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley, one of the few sane people — and even fewer women — in top positions in the Trump administration and a former...
Leading by example
In the absence of national leadership on LGBTQ equality, cities and even towns are stepping up to pass ordinances protecting basic rights for citizens....
Donald Trump
It has been a strange week. For starters, Donald Trump announced that after an on-again, off-again rollercoaster relationship, he and North Korean dictator Kim...
On excellence
“General excellence.” Upon hearing we’d won this category, my thoughts were, Just another award. Now that might sound jaded, but these days that seems...
Your path to parenthood
I tell friends I found two loves during medical school: My husband was the first and the field of infertility, my current specialty,...
Media: Stop enabling discrimination
On Monday, the State Department began requiring all employees to be married in order to receive family benefits and, for overseas staff, diplomatic passports...
Questions for the Catholic Church
Attention LGBT media, mainstream media: Don’t you think it’s time to stop asking softball questions of the leadership of the Catholic Church? Let me...
The new scarlet letter
Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison this week for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, who was...
A beacon of hope
Recent reports say that 0.7 percent of teens identify as transgender. At the same time, a recent study from the American Academy of Pediatrics...
Who lives, who dies, who tells our story?
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