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We’re deep in the middle of List Season, which means that practically every day, there’s another “best books of 2009″ list coming out. I like lists as much as the next person, and I don’t deny they’re very helpful for gift-giving ideas, but perusing all these lists made me realize that I was missing something. [...]
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This Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as assistant bishop. Rev. Glasspool, if approved by a majority of dioceses in the church, would then become the second openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. (The first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, was elected in 2003.) This [...]
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I’m preparing a blog post about YA books that include room for queerness, and in thinking about that, I began to think about the word queer itself. I know that for some people, queer is still an epithet, a put-down. For me, it is not. It is part of the LGBTQ acronym — lesbian, gay, [...]
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Back in August, I went down to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I couldn’t tell you about it then, but now I can reveal that I’m in Out magazine’s 2009 Out 100! It is such an honor to be on a list with Sarah Waters (although why did they put her in a janitor’s [...]
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Today, Oct. 11, is National Coming Out Day. It was also the day of the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. I was not there, but I followed it on Twitter for a while, and this is one of my favorite signs I saw: I’ve had a few people ask me about my own coming-out [...]
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