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Open Thread: June 13, 2009

What is your favorite simple pleasure that doesn't cost you a cent? ...

It's a Woman's Right to Choose, Not Yours

Before the murder of Dr. ...

Friday News Wrap

The World Health Organization has officially declared a swine flu pandemic as the virus has r ...

Open Thread: June 12, 2009

Who is your hero? (a parent, a celebrity, an influential person in one’s life.) ...

Chaz Bono Comes Out as Trans

LGBT activist and child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, Chaz Bono (formerly Chastity Bono) has come out as transgender. From GLAAD: ...

Question Reality

I got pulled over by a cop for driving home from work, exhausted after trying and mostly failing to sell theater subscriptions over the phone, with my headlights off. ...

Mixtape Madness: Pride 2009

It is officially Pride month and I don’t know what to expect. This will be my first Pride. ...

Open Thread: June 11, 2009

If you could trade lives with anybody for one day, who would you be? ...

Holocaust Memorial Museum Shooting

When I heard the news of the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today, I flashed back to my first trip there when I was in 7th grade on a school trip. ...

Kelly Picks a Fight: Gay Pride

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I'm a bad gay in some people's eyes. ...

These Precious Things: Tori & Me

The other day, a friend of mine posted in her Facebook status that she had gotten tickets to see Tori Amos play at Radio City in July, but it didn’t mean that she was 13.  Upon reading this, the 15-an ...

Colbert Argues For and Against DADT

Stephen Colbert treads gingerly over Don't Ask, Don't Tell in his latest skit in front of U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. ...

Walk in the Park

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Barbara Garcia, Her Dog, and Life Under the Oklahoma Sky
The New Yorker
May 22, 2013

Tornadoes, for all their vicious bulk, are capricious. They can rip a building out of the ground and leave a little dog dusty and dazed, but otherwise unscathed.

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Femen protester stages mock suicide at Notre Dame cathedral
The Guardian
May 22, 2013

A member of the feminist group Femen, staged a mock suicide in Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, less than 24 hours after a far-right historian killed himself there in front of visitors and church-goers.

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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
The Independent
May 22, 2013

A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France.

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Does Expansion of Rights Also Expand Antigay Violence?
Advocate.com
May 22, 2013

The National Organization for Marriage released a statement on Tuesday distancing its agenda from the murder of Mark Carson, a New Yorker gunned down for being gay.

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The Whitney Museum's New Logo Goes Nowhere
Hyperallergic
May 22, 2013

WTF Whitney?

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Early Prints by Mary Cassatt
Hyperallergic
May 22, 2013

The much overlooked print collection at NY Public library features works by Mary Cassatt, the 19th C. ex-pat living in Paris and helping to define the Impressionist movement.

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The Nazi Ties of Joseph Beuys
http://hyperallergic.com
May 21, 2013

A new biography argues that artist Joseph Beuys was not really progressive and enlightened, but rather reactionary in his politics. A new biography of the artist, kicks up the age-old debate about the separation of the artist and the art ...

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