Rejecting Toxins in November, 2012
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Rejecting Toxins in November, 2012

What do you do when your opponents have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, much of it on 30-second-long bogus attack ads that flood battleground states in the last two months of the 2012 presidential election? Sites of the propaganda battle: http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-electoral-map/ When a few billionaires, like Sheldon…

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September 10, 2012
School Strike, Children, Parents & the Mayor
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School Strike, Children, Parents & the Mayor

If you were a child born in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was a product of the Chicago Public Schools educational system, you had deal with teachers going on strike. In 1980, 1984, 1985 and 1987, children and their parents were highly inconvenienced by ongoing labor disputes…

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September 6, 2012
The Bully Versus the Bully Pulpit
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The Bully Versus the Bully Pulpit

In May I wrote about the troubling homophobic bullying incident in which Mitt Romney was the ringleader when but a high school lad, back in 1965. My suggestion, and many others’, was that Romney’s inability (or unwillingness) to own up to his youthful misdeeds (most of us have done…

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September 6, 2012
Wipe Out Transphobia: Emma Bailey
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Wipe Out Transphobia: Emma Bailey

Shared via Wipe Out Homophobia After Wipe Out Transphobia's recent rise in popularity and boost in numbers, I asked the creator, Emma Bailey if she wouldn't mind giving us a little more background on her page, community and mission.... 1. What made YOU become an online activist? After I came out,…

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September 4, 2012
The Gay Marriage Issue
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The Gay Marriage Issue

Marriage is more than a piece of paper. It confers numerous benefits, such as health, disability and life insurance, pension funds and tax refunds for spouses. Many gay couples desire to marry and partake in these benefits but have been denied this right because of their sexuality and that…

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September 4, 2012
A Walk Through the Wolf Woods
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A Walk Through the Wolf Woods

By, The Messenger in Blue The path sits before me, so plain and wide I warily move on with the moon as my guide The eyes of the night are vigilant guards For their numbers seem even with that of the stars Aside from the wind, the Wolfwood is still…

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September 2, 2012
The Homecoming Players Take On “8 the Play”
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The Homecoming Players Take On “8 the Play”

The Homecoming Players in Ithaca, New York, for which I serve as artistic director, won a slot in the national series of staged readings of Dustin Lance Black’s new documentary play, 8, which we performed on August 10. We were thrilled to be part of this program, and a…

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August 30, 2012
This Year’s Olympics
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This Year’s Olympics

Any foreigner in Britain in 2012 must think the country was going through another world war. The amount of jingoism, flag-waving, anthem singing and hyperbole spilling out of the national media has gone into overdrive, suddenly proclaiming this country to be the 'greatest country ever', a claim that hasn't been…

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August 26, 2012
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