I’m one of the countless numbers of educated young people who left the Detroit area. And it’s not just the economy, stupid, but the state’s constant refrain of anti-women, anti-labor, anti-LGBT politics that drove me away.

“Imagine how wonderful it would be to take a class on French lesbian poetry in university, but wait, who’s that British man in a suit, aspirating your French lesbian poetry textbooks into his bag-free vacuum cleaner?”

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With the upcoming U.S. Presidential election getting All The Press And Attention, here’s a few reasons why you shouldn’t let your local election go unnoticed.

“But we also believe in something called citizenship citizenship, a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy, the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.”

Barnard Center for Research on Women and Queers for Economic Justice have teamed up to write about ‘A New Queer Agenda.’ If you live in New York and are free on September 19, you could go hear the contributors talk about it!

A Louisiana lawmaker wants to a local university to drop its new minor in LGBT studies because he claims the program is political; he also seems to have no awareness that it is also political to discourage the program.

Kevin McCarthy is not going to let DOMA go, no matter how many federal judges tell him to.

“We never ask young people what they are willing to sacrifice to make the world better and that’s one of the biggest problems in this country.”

“…a class of people large enough to constitute a population majority—as women did—could not feasibly be “oppressed…”

From now on we’ll be having the Daily Fix in three parts! This is News & Politics. Today, a music prodigy who performed at the Sydney Olympics is jailed for a sexual affair with a female student, a lesbian Mom wins in court, Obama is anti Patterson and Serbia’s gay parade is totally f*cking canceled.

Now the constitutionality of DOMA will almost definitely head to the Supreme Court next year.

Republicans may have succeeded in making sure the Violence Against Women Act doesn’t have any protections for LGBT people — unless Obama vetoes it.

“I’ve dedicated my entire life to documenting queer lives. I wanted to make sure I document (LGBTI) lives. All my major projects are gone.”

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“If you really value families, you shouldn’t play politics with women’s health.” — President Barack Obama

Someone paid $5,000 to kiss Naya Rivera and it wasn’t you!