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Five gay things I should have been taught in sex ed

Looking back on my experiences as a child and teen, there are five important things about being gay, having sex with other guys and other sexual health lessons that I should have been taught in sex ed classes.

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Analysis and Commentary

Girls don’t mean what they say, gay=HIV and other ‘facts’ from the Focus on the Family sex ed North Carolina might allow

The North Carolina House of Representatives passed a slight — but highly significant — change to state sexuality education curriculum yesterday. The bill now goes on to a vote in the state Senate. The bill, to the positive, adds instruction on sex trafficking. But it also changes the requirements on exactly who is credentialed to […]

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Thoughts and whatever

Puff piece ignores local Christian school’s dangerous anti-LGBT policies

Do journalists and news outlets have a responsibility to include information about an institution’s extremist discriminatory policies when writing about them? I think so. And I think it’s doubly important when news outlets write on schools that have extremist, discriminate policies. But in Charlotte, while one puff piece about a local Christian school heaped plenty […]