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Star Wars will be an inclusive franchise and its future will include gay characters, according to J.J. Abrams, speaking earlier this week at the Oscar Wilde awards at Bad Robot Productions. The Daily Beast noted that as The Force Awakens has been the first film in the franchise to utilize black and female leads, Abrams’…
As studios and networks have finally begun to grapple with the shocking reality that audiences enjoy watching women go on adventures, we’ve seen an influx of female protagonists on superhero television in the last year. And while Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, and Supergirl have all been emphatically pushing the conversation forward, another hero took a quiet and revolutionary step earlier…
The storyline’s over, and now that it is, I wanted to talk a little about it. But, you know, in a general storywriting sense versus yesterday’s stroll down awful childhood memory lane. I’d written previously how, years ago, before Becky had been reintroduced into the strip as a main character, I knew Becky couldn’t be…
Meet Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City who just won the election campaigning on municipal issues, of all things. This is big news—because Biskupski is a lesbian—in Utah—no joke! Utah, the state with all the Mormons. Where that judge who didn’t like lesbians lives. http://gawker.com/utah-family-co… And sure, none of that really…
Hundreds of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints mailed or handed in letters quitting the Mormon church on Saturday to protest against a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. Leaders of the church approved the policy last week. It added same-sex marriage to acts…
Former secretary of education and new president of the University of North Carolina System Margaret Spellings, photographed in 2011.Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images When Republicans gained supermajorities in both houses of the North Carolina legislature in 2012, they stacked the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors with extremely partisan, conservative appointees. Those…
Tiffany Santiago and her mother This week, two women were attacked in a Midtown East restaurant in what police say was an anti-gay attack. And the victims, a mother and daughter, believe that the attackers mistook them for a couple: “As soon as I sat down, I heard the word ‘lesbian,’” victim Tiffany Santiago…
That God, boy, He sure do work in mysterious ways! After 6000 years of saying “Thou shalt not permit a marriage license to be issued by thy clerk’s office if it is sought by homosexbians,” He slept on it this weekend and said, “Nah, never mind, it’s cool.” Rowan County clerk Kim Davis returned to…
A circuit court judge in Oregon’s Marion County is refusing to perform same-sex marriages, claiming doing so would violate his First Amendment rights. Judge Vance D. Day, who has served in Oregon’s Third Judicial District since 2011, has never married an LGBT couple, and has stopped performing marriages all together. Day says performing gay marriages…
When Caitlyn Jenner came out to the world in April, she gave a lot of the credit to one man in helping her family understand her new identity: Kanye West. “They were talking about it and [West] says to Kim, ‘Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I…