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Gay men and women have built digital community since dial-up BBS and AOL-style online services. These days, gay users spend significantly more time with blogs and social networks than the average user, and are twice as likely to respond to the ads. There's a lot more to the gay community online than chats, dates, and what puppets say the Internet is for.

With Internet access, gay kids can find support and coming out resources, anonymously even, which alone is likely to reduce the teen suicide rate. And, similar resources are now available for just about any life event a gay person might face from conception to wedding planning to remembering those who have been lost and everything in between: how gay people meet, parent, protest, collaborate, travel, and learn.

"Gay" remains the top tag decades after "disco" and "decadence" disappeared, through "diseased" and "pariah", though seems to be settling into a more bourgeois connotation set: "moisturizing," "classic-modern," "rainbows." Attempts to substitute inclusive/ironic "queer" stalled in San Francisco and with academics while at the other end of the rainbow "discreet" "bi" guys say they're "str8" or "downlow" that's just so much lipstick on the same old closet.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “gay”

• in Music
  Rising Star Hayla Reveals She Wrote Dance Hit “I’m Free” About Her Gay Ex-Boyfriend
  Hayla divulges that her Billboard hit “I’m Free” was written after she shockingly discovered her boyfriend of 7 years in bed with another man.
  by HollywoodGiant / on Mar 18, 2012
• in Social Media
  Hard Cases Make Bad Law
  Ravi Committed A Hate Crime But Did He Hate His Victim
  by Mozart99 / on Mar 16, 2012
• in Politics
  Catholic Church Wages War on Gay Marriage
  The Catholic Church persecution of gays continues.
  by jasonshaw99 / on Mar 11, 2012

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  Council of Europe Office in Armenia Yerevan, 25.05.2012 [ Armenian version ] Against the background of recent incidents and expressions of intolerance towards individuals and groups in Armenia based on their sexual orientation and gender identity the Council of Europe Office in Armenia would like to remind the ...
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• Catholic Bishops Put Religious Privilege Above the Rights of Others

  
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• The traditional courts bill threatens LGBT South Africans | Graeme Reid

  
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• The traditional courts bill threatens LGBT South Africans | Graeme Reid

  
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• What Would a Fence Around All the Gays in the World Look Like ?

  
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• William Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1768 – May 26, 1835)

  
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• Tamara Karsavina (March 10, 1885 – May 26, 1978)

  
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• Alan Hollinghurst (born May 26, 1954)

  
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• Queer History: Tom Eyen (August 14, 1940 - May 26, 1991)

  
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• Even simple charts can tell a story

  
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• Singing Her Alive: A Fictional Memoir

  
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  In Charlottesville Virginia, a week after making the assertion that "sodomy is not a civil right," Delegate Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William) stood by his remarks during a campaign visit to a tea party meeting. "If sodomy is a civil right, do we have to protect it? Do we have to fund it? Do we have to teach it? Do ...
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• A Perfect Phrase

  
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• YouTube Pulls Madeleine McAulay Gay Marriage Video as Violating Guidlines on Hate Speech

  
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  Madeleines tweet is here . Its freakin upside down that a person cant speak their mind without being attacked and targeted by the left, but thats where things are going in this country at the moment. And see her blog: " The Good, the Bad, and the Disgusting ."
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• Another Judge Rules DOMA Unconstitutional

  
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  Another judge has struck down DOMA, Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly reports : On Thursday evening, a federal judge in California held that the Defense of Marriage Act and a provision of tax law unconstitutionally limit same-sex couples and domestic partners from participating in the long-term care plan offered by ...
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