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Bullying: Not Child’s Play

I am still trying to internalize the idea that an 11-year-old boy hung himself in his home due to chronic bullying and gay slurs. ...

Tweet of the Day

If you are a Twitterer, please follow Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) because he's racing CNN to 1 million followers. ...

Songs to Teabag By

I've been programming my very own Internet radio station/playlist at Blip.FM for a week or so now. ...

LoLDykez: NOM, ur doin it wrong!!!!

We here at Velvetpark are firmly committed to bringing you thoughtful, intelligent commentary on the week's most hard-hitting and important stories... ...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009

My first real encounter with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was via the introduction to her classic Epistemology of the Closet entitled “Axiomatic.” I was a junior in college in a class in queer film ...

Kelly Picks a Fight: Cry Freedom, Not Wolf

I'm generally one to give the benefit of the doubt in situations before leaping to any sinister, conspiratorial conclusions — unless Dick Cheney is involved. ...

Tweet of the Day

Diablo Cody wins another round, pulling ahead of a pack that includes Margaret Cho, Paula Poundstone, Ellen DeGeneres, Rob Corddry and others. Here's Diablo's winning two-part Tweet: ...

Cage's Fist Gets Caught in the Glitch

All last week Diana had been e-mailing me about how she was experimenting on Facebook to advertise her books via Amazon. ...

Messin’ with Texas: SXSW 2009

Now in its 23rd year, the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas has become one of the most important gatherings in the music industry, drawing agents, labels, bookers, radio progr ...

Lohan Lookin' For Love

Watson just tipped us off to Lindsay Lohan's profile for that right-wing Christian dating site, eHarmony. ...

Book Nerd Chatter: The Other Side of Paradise

A good memoir is a satisfying read in a way that few other literary works can aspire to. ...

Tweet of the Day

While Demi Moore is Tweeting about her acupuncture session, complete with a photo of needles in her... ...

Eco Maniac: Will We or Won't We?

First is Thomas Friedman's New York Times column from Saturday about Costa Rica. ...

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End of the Village Voice, Musto Out!
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

Last week, top editors at the Village Voice resigned in protest when they learned that management wanted them to lay off several members of their already-decimated staff. This morning, those layoffs came down. They're not pretty.

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Photographer Takes Secret Photos of Neighbors for Public Art Project
Gwaker
May 17, 2013

A Tribeca photographer has come under fire for taking clandestine photos of his neighbors and making them available for public consumption through a Chelsea art gallery without the consent of his subjects.

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Most Gay Friendly Sprot? Roller Derby, Duh
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

"Most people look at the women's side of it and think that it's all of these butch girls playing roller derby. So it just tends to go very easily with lesbians and roller derby,"

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Mark And Pam Crawford, Parents Of Intersex Child, Sue South Carolina For Sex Assignment Surgery (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
May 17, 2013

M.C. feels like a boy. The 8-year-old adopted child of Mark and Pam Crawford identifies as a boy, acts like a boy and is accepted as a boy by his family, school and pediatrician...

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The Scientific Backlash Against the D.S.M.
The New Yorker
May 17, 2013

Insel announced that that the D.S.M.’s diagnostic categories lacked validity, that they were not “based on any objective measures,” ... they were nothing more than constructs put together by committees of experts.

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Obama vs. the Press: Will the A.P. Scandal Yield Reforms? : The New Yorker
New Yorker
May 17, 2013

On Thursday, President Obama called on Congress to revive a federal shield law that would protect reporters from the sort of thing the Justice Department has done to the A.P. This was ironic on two counts.

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The Non-Actor Models in Karl Lagerfeld's Latest Chanel Film Needn't Quit Their Day Jobs
Blouin Artinfo
May 16, 2013

The art of the advertorial fashion featurette has reached pretentious new highs with “Once Upon A Time.” Directed by Karl Largerfeld and starring Keira Knightley’s chin, alongside a bevy of non-actor models, the film is set around the opening of Coco Chanel's hat shop

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