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Documenting Feminist Revolutionaries: Grace Lee Boggs & Angela Davis

Yesterday Moon and I saw Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, the new documentary about Angela Davis's im ...

Mexico Sets the Tone on Hate Speech

Homophobic epithets are so pervasive across the globe that most heterosexual people are sadly unaware of the psychological and physical toil they have on lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

Got Legal Questions? Come to Queer Brunch and Talk to Bevin

Bevin Branlandingham is known around town for her body positive performances and for her curated performance parties Rebel Cupcake ...

My First Trip to the GLBT Expo

Preparing for the GLBT Expo this weekend at the Javitz Center, I had some idea of what to expect, like an enormous room full of beautiful queermos hocking pride jewelry, free dental dams and cond ...

"Story of an Egg" Will Make You Think Twice About That Omlette

The PBS Online Film Festival is quite amazing—who didn't squeal with delight when watching Mr. ...

Sheryl Sandberg, Leaning in or Taking Us Back?

This weekend Melissa Harris Perry's round table of feminists talked about Sheryl Sandberg's hotly contested new book "Lean In." Criticism of the book has ranged from a "rich girls guide to having i ...

Schulman on Her Jewish Identity & Queer Politics at the Gay Center

A book reading two years in the making, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's (QAIA's) event featuring Sarah Schulman had its innocuous moments (the actual reading of a memoir, by genre an uncontestab ...

TODAY: Schulman Brings Pinkwashing to the Gay Center

Tonight NYC queers can take advantage of two literary events: the first being a literary mixer at the Dalloway, which begins at 6pm; the second being what h ...

Was Marco Millian killed in Mississippi because he was black or gay?

Marco Millian was a trailblazer, and the pride of the Mississippi Delta. Just in his twenties Ebony magazine in 2004 hailed him as on the nation's 30 leaders under the age of 30. ...

The Papal Conclave, Just Like When Michelangelo Was Alive

Did we have any idea that the Papal Conclave (where the new pope will be voted on) takes place in the Sistine Chapel? ...

Lambda Announces Finalists

Lambda Literary has announced its finalists for the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, held in NYC in June 2013. ...

Maddow Talks Sequester on the Today Show

Maddow appears on the Today Show with... um... who is the host? There have been so many changes there I have no idea who's on? ...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mother of Rock 'n' Roll

Following Black History month, is Women History month and on this occasion last night I came across a documentary on PBS about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ...

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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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