I read this article the other day about a woman in Wisconsin who answered an ad on craigslist. 

She moved to NYC and was expecting to trade cooking and cleaning for a place to stay.
Over the course of 9 days she was allegedly raped, beaten, and held against her ...

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   The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (GAGV) has recently announced the creation of new pages on their website dedicated specifically to the issue of Partner Violence and Abuse.

   These new pages will provide information, education, important safety planning tools, and resources to find help, including the Gay Alliance Anti-Violence ...

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A third teen has died as the result of suicide in as many weeks.

Asher Brown of Texas shot himself in the head last week after years of bullying by his peers.

California teen Seth Walsh was removed from life support nine days after being found hanging from a tree ...

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According to the Associated Press, David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree, a gay couple from Wyoming, are suing their state for marriage equality. Wyoming, ironically dubbed "The Equality State," defines marriage as "between a male and a female person."

But here’s where the story gets interesting: Roderick,25, and ...

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The religious right loves to paint marriage equality as something nasty. They want the world to hear the word gay and think sex. Well I think these photographs, posted by the Boston Globe, present marriage equality as what it really is: all about love. From all races, religions, nationalities, and ...

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Bare back porn is quickly becoming one of the biggest niche markets in the industry. Unprotected sex and skin to skin contact has been fetishized. Obviously this has raised a lot of tension in the queer community. For some it epitomizes a faux-post- AIDS culture, and for others bare back ...

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I grew up in a progressive town in the suburbs of New York. In towns like these, the law of the politically correct is passed from the sky on large stone tablets. This community ethic sheltered me from a world where prejudice could be seen with the naked eye. However ...

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Marriage equality is not about the ability to call someone wife or husband. It’s about the ability to protect our families from a variety of situations, the most important of which is healthcare.

A recent study by the UCLA School of Public Health and Lambda Legal Defense and Education ...

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We’re sitting on the sofa and talking and laughing in my brother’s apartment – my mother, several of my brother’s friends, and me. There’s my brother’s favorite music playing in the background. It seems like an everyday, ordinary scene that could be taking place anywhere around ...

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We are a culture that is often times obsessed with the ideas of love, and by no means does that obsession die out during summertime. For many people, a summer fling is an annual goal, one more thing on the To-Do List before the leaves start changes.

The truth is ...

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