America’s once-favorite TV dad needs to take his own advice.
Gender & Sexuality
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The End of the Lavender Ghetto
As gays and lesbians gain acceptance, they are moving away from the old neighborhoods that long epitomized gay culture.
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Progressive Midterm Victories You Didn’t Hear About — And Some That Could Still Happen
Across the nation, voters passed measures against fracking and abortion restrictions, and for the minimum wage, paid sick leave, public safety and gun reform.
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Watch Party Dispatch: At Howard University, Mentors Challenge Young Activists’ Ideas of Victory
For the African-American community, given all the obstacles, an uptick in turnout can be a victory in and of itself.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Undaunted By Grim Outcomes, Pro-Choicers Gather to Plot the Future
They had hoped for a better night, but they’re already thinking ahead to 2016.
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Anti-Choice ‘Personhood’ Measures Fail in North Dakota and Colorado
But in Tennessee, an anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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GOP’s Neo-Confederate Theocrat Wins Council Seat in One of Richest U.S. Counties
Voters were looking for something new when they elected Michael Peroutka to run as a Republican for a seat on Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Council. What they got was something very old—like ante bellum kind of old.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Challenge to Hillary Clinton
A more insurgent campaign, like the one the former professor waged for the Senate, could make the Democratic frontrunner a stronger candidate.
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We Know College Feminists Care About Sexual Assault. But What About Abortion?
For many students attending schools in East and West Coast states, the legislative efforts to restrict abortion access commonly found in red states can seem quite distant from their own daily gender struggles.
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When Guns Trample Speech, Do We Have a Democracy?
A speech by feminist Anita Sarkeesian was canceled by Utah State University because, even under the threat of a massacre, the state demands that guns cannot be prohibited in public spaces.
