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Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field

365 Culture and Ideas  3 days ago

(Spokane, Washington) Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Hutus hate the Tutsis? Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies.
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Family Q offers support for gay parents

365 Culture and Ideas  4 days ago

“The technical aspects of making a family is just the small part,” says Dr. Miriam Colbert Ehrenberg, executive director of the Institute for Human Identity (IHI), a New York City-based psychotherapy and training institute.
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Corvino: On not being like other boys

365 Culture and Ideas  Nov 13 09

It’s November, which means bookstores have next year’s calendars on display. When I was a teenager, this annual occurrence unnerved me.
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Corvino: Maine, Detroit and the closet

365 Culture and Ideas  Nov 08 09

When I was a “fag” on the junior high playground, getting punched hurt even when I saw it coming.
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Gay History Month: Zora Neale Hurston

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 31 09

Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, novelist and anthropologist, was a staple figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Gay History Month: Yves Saint Laurent

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 30 09

Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the most renowned figures in 20th century French fashion. As a child, Laurent was incessantly taunted by his peers.
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Gay History Month: Urvashi Vaid

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 29 09

Urvashi Vaid is an openly lesbian civil rights activist and attorney. She has dedicated herself to pursuing equal rights for LGBT persons for over 25 years.
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Rutgers University students unite against Westboro Baptist Church

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 28 09

About 200 students woke up earlier than usual Wednesday on the Rutgers University campus. Some still in pajamas, they stood in the rain with signs in their hands, prepared to counter-protest against hate.
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Gay History Month: Todd Oldham

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 28 09

Todd Oldham is an openly gay American fashion designer. He was born in Texas in 1961. He discovered his love of fashion and design after designing his first dress at age 15.
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Gay History Month: Tammy Baldwin

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 27 09

Tammy Baldwin is the first woman from Wisconsin to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the first openly gay person elected to Congress.
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Gay History Month: Suze Orman

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 26 09

Suze Orman is a financial advisor, motivational speaker, television personality and book author. Her financial career began in 1980 when she became an account executive at Merill Lynch.
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Gay History Month: Ruth Ellis

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 25 09

Ruth Ellis  is regarded by many as "America's Oldest Lesbian." She was an African-American woman who came out as a lesbian in 1915 before graduating from Springfield High School in Illinois.
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Gay History Month: Robert Rauschenberg

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 24 09

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose work provided the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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Russian Lesbian Couple Marries Today in Canada

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Pink News reported that a lesbian couple will marry today in Toronto. Irina Fedotova-Fet, 30, and Irina Shipitko, 32, attempted to marry in Russia in May but were turned away.
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Gay Reversal Group Pushes “Ex-Gay” Literature

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Chicago-based group, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is pushing public school libraries to insert a whole new class of books on their shelves about "reformed homosexuals.
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Gay History Month: Rainer Fassbinder

365 Culture and Ideas  Oct 23 09

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a polemic filmmaker associated with the New German Cinema movement. Fassbinder was born in 1946 to a bourgeois family in Munich.
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