LGBT
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DC Comics’ First Transgender Character
DC Comics’ “New 52” gambit, in which they scrapped all their series’ storylines and replaced them with new ones, did away with many of the characters that kept the DC Universe diverse in terms of race, gender, and sexuality. But…
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Heidelberg
My father laid his guns down on the kitchen table next to our box of Cocoa Puffs: the .38 from his ankle and the .38 from his hip, as flat and lifeless as my expression.
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Three Cheers for 100 Amazing Trans Americans
Here’s a BuzzFeed list that’s definitely worth reading: 100 Amazing Trans Americans You Should Know. They’re artists, educators, activists, and more, and they’re doing great work all over the country. Click through to read stories of where they’ve come from…
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Why You Can’t Take the “Porn” out of “Gay Porn”
When a community college in a small New York town hired Rumpus pal Conner Habib to speak about sex and culture for a campus Sex Week, he was psyched. After all, he’d grown up gay in a small town and knew…
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The History of Black Lesbian Cinema
It’s about a year old now, but whatever: this primer on black lesbian cinema is too good not to read. Salamishah Tillet walks us through twenty years of movies by and about queer women of color, from Watermelon Woman, a mockumentary…
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A Week in the Life of an LGBT Writer
Lambda Literary feature “The Banal and the Profane” returns with a post by Leon Baham. Each installment involves an LGBT writer chronicling a week of life day by day, and Baham also organizes things alphabetically; his topics range from “Adult…