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This week Taboo Jive is recommending a Facebook page that has something for everyone. About: “Everyone of every sexuality supporting each other. Equality For All! Not Some! Get the latest news and videos here on LGBT issues.” Mission: “Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equal Rights. One by…

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March 26, 2012

Art / Book reviews / Miscellaneous

Illogical Thoughts by Someone Too Young to Think

By: Samuel Bontin Illogical Thoughts by Someone Too Young to Think is the first book of author Robert Mynatt, a young writer with few pretentions of his writing ability, and who happens to write for Taboo Jive as well. Illogical Thoughts is the inception of a fledgling career that…

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March 26, 2012

Entertainment / Miscellaneous / Paranormal / Philosophy / Taboo Jive Writing Contest Winners

Existential Thoughts in Suspension

By: Robert Mynatt “Do you think people living on other planets have the same existential questions that we do?” “What are you talking about?” Zach and Mell lay in separate tanning beds in preparation for going to the desert for their annual one-week vacation to escape the coldness of…

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March 24, 2012

Gender / Philosophy / Relationships / Sexuality / The Pen Prostitute

Part II Emily Paints Faces

Editor's Note: Here's the title and link to part 1 of Emily's story ---> 'Happy' It had been six months since Emily had been found on the doorstep of Pula's Funeral Home. True to his word Paul had set her up with a job as his make up artist. The …

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March 23, 2012

Editorials / Facebook Fan pages / Media / Society

Why It Matters To Me

Editors note: Ron Kemp is a blogger @ Enough is Enough and is featured as Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook's 'Guest Writer of the Month' for April, 2012. By Ron Kemp Twelve years old. I'm on vacation in a little rural city named Portsmouth, VA. My aunt, with whom I…

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March 22, 2012

Tyler Clementi playing violin with the Ridgewood High School Orchestra in 2009.

Current Events / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Sexuality / Society

Tyler Clementi: Hate Had Its Way

“Student found guilty of charges in webcam suicide case” - ZDNet. “Tyler Clementi Case: Dharun Ravi Found Guilty of Hate Crimes, Invasion of Privacy” - Hollywood Gossip. “Hate-Crimes Conviction: Ex-Rutgers Student Faces Up to 10 Years in Closely Watched Bias Intimidation Case” - Wall Street Journal. “Dharun Ravi Found…

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March 22, 2012

Entertainment / Music / Bands

George Michael — Too Funky

"Lyrically, the song is a basic, animalistic plea for sexual activity. It features a clip from The Graduate; Anne Bancroft's line of "Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?" is repeated during the final crescendo. The song then ends with a sample ("Will you stop…

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March 21, 2012

Sexuality

Dear 15 Year Old Me. I’m writing to tell you: It Got Better

Dear 15 Year Old Me. I’m writing to tell you: It Got Better. Yesterday was a tough day for you. That time you spent in the bathroom will forever remain in your memory. You made your admission, to yourself. It was in your head before, but yesterday felt like…

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March 21, 2012

Art / Culture / Editorials / Miscellaneous / Philosophy / Society

A Defense of Modern Art

By: Keith Bipp Modern art has received some of the most brutal criticisms, mostly from those who were never really interested in art to begin with. This is mostly prompted out of a misunderstanding of what artist like Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollack, Andy…

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March 21, 2012

Culture / Education / Facebook Fan pages / Gender / Media / Philosophy / Relationships / Sexuality / Society

Bisexuality: “In your Own Words”

By Jack Cameron I began to do some research for a report that would shed some light, education and awareness on what it really means to be Bisexual. Many heterosexual people and even some homosexual people are unclear and misunderstood on what it truly means to be Bisexual. Sometime later it…

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March 21, 2012