South Carolina College Funding Comes With Strings

You may remember a few months ago when the South Carolina House cut funding from two universities in that state because they had the audacity to assign LGBT-related reading material to students. The South Carolina Senate has restored the cut funding, but the restoration has come with the provision that the schools must use the […]

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Trans Docuseries Coming to VH1

Tyra Banks and Guy Rosenthal are producing a new docuseries for VH1 that will follow the lives of five trans people who live in Chicago. The focus of documentary will be on the subjects romantic lives and professional aspirations. The show is entitled TransAmerica and will also feature Carmen Carrera (of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame) in the role of […]

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Dreamworks Film to Feature Gay Character

In this summer’s How To Train Your Dragon 2, the character of Gobber the Belch will come out. The gruff viking was responsible for training youngsters in the first film how to fight dragons. The character is voiced by Craig Ferguson. As Gobber watches a straight couple argue, he says “That’s why I never got married.” Ferguson […]

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Nintendo’s Straight Answer on Queer Relationships

Nintendo has not been having a good week responding to queer critics. The gaming giant is set to release Tomodachi Life in the United States. The game features the daily lives of the characters (similar to the Sims for computer platforms). In the Japanese version of the game, a bug allowed characters to participate in […]

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Cable Channel Drops Anti-LGBT Stars

HGTV has dropped its series Flip It Forward because of the stars homophobic views. The father of twin brothers and Liberty University graduates Jason and David Benham leads the anti-LGBT group, Operation Save America, that has also protested everything from the interfaith Sandy Hook memorial to mosques. At a prayer rally outside the 2012 Democratic […]

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New Documentary to Explore the “Gay Voice”

A new documentary seeks to explore what makes the gay voice and what it means in today’s society. The film will be called Do I Sound Gay?, and it will tackle an issue that is often noted but rarely discussed. From the film’s Kickstarter page: In the tradition of funny-but-serious first-person movies like Supersize Me, Roger and Me and Good Hair, […]

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StoryCorps Announces New LGBTQ Initiative

StoryCorps recently announced that OutLoud, its division that helps capture the stories of LGBTQ people, will undertake a new initiative starting in June 2014 to record our stories. The goal of this initiative is to record stories from people who lived before the Stonewall uprisings in 1969. Stay tuned for more information about how to get […]

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