May 2012
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“Denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples has not been adequately supported...”
– Some awesome federal judges
“You are not a terrible person for wanting to break up with someone you love. You...”
– Dear Sugar
The commitment-phobic straight man stereotype is a...
66 percent of men agree that it’s “better to get married than to go through life single,” compared to 51 percent of women. (via)
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SEX IS MORE THAN BUMPING GENITALS: Relationship...
Betty Dodson opens the gray door of her Madison Avenue apartment and looks me up and down. “Hello, Amazon,” she says, then offers to make me a drink. The 83-year-old sex activist is known for being direct, brassy, and unabashed in her language; during our 45-minute interview, she uses the word “fuck” 17 times. The apartment where the legendary author of Sex for One leads...
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LOVE WHO YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT, AS MANY AS YOU...
I waited a month for Wendy-O Matik’s book to come off the library hold list. And then I gobbled up the slim volume, Redefining Our Relationships, in one quick weekend. The personal, gushing guidebook to how the 40-something Bay Area “radical love warrior” approaches relationships struck my heart and stayed there. When I talked to Wendy on the phone, she was surprisingly...
The Life of a Prolific Sperm Donor, Father of 83... →
Going through IV fertilization costs thousands of dollars. So a nice guy named Ed has spent the past decade volunteering to impregnate women through the “natural method” for nothing more than bus fare and a sandwich.
My boyfriend and I
sincerelyhana:
Obama Loves Queers! (Except Not Non-Monogamous... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
President Obama just “endorsed” gay marriage. And guess what? I barely give a damn.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s okay. It’s fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Saying that gay people who want to get married to each other should be able to do so is basically a…
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“For the first time ever, the Census found, less than half of all U.S. homes —...”
– More Singles Living Alone (USA Today)
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50 Things Wrong With 50 Shades of Grey
50 Shades of Grey is the book everyone is talking about. The first, second, and third books in the series that began as BDSM Twilight fanfiction are now the first, second, and third best sellers on Amazon. The problem is the books are AWFUL. Even without dealing with the gross media coverage of the books, the books themselves are horrible. I picked up the book at Powell’s and was sucked in...
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PRINCE CHARMING IS A SCAM: Relationship Advice...
The San Francisco Ferry Building is so swirling with people that Tracy Clark-Flory and I can’t even find a place to sit. We eventually perch on a bench outside Pete’s Coffee, a throng of commuters, tourists, and screaming babies surrounding our small, intimate conversation. Clark-Flory is the always articulate Salon.com sex and gender staff writer. Over the San Francisco morning...
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OH MY GOD, YOU'RE RAD: Relationship Advice From...
Michelle is smaller than I thought she would be—she seems so big on the pages of her feisty fiction, like Rent Girl and The Chelsea Whistle. We meet up for the first time in her natural habitat: a warm, dimly-lit coffeeshop where she’s about to take over the small stage to read from her book, Valencia. Michelle’s prose draws from her experiences growing up queer in Boston in the ‘80s and hanging...
