The AggreGAYtor: June 17
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
11:30AM, Mon. Jun. 17, 2013
Rachel Maddow takes the GOP to school, Michele Bachmann takes immigration reform to gay church, and the NSA takes all your data as your AggreGAYtor stirs the pot.
The Good
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Belton High School graduate Mitch Anderson experiences ongoing support for his emotional coming-out graduation speech.
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The upcoming SCOTUS decision will probably be good news to some extent, but it’s complicated. And so are the social implications.
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Social Security eases up on gender assignment for trans* people.
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Russians and New Yorkers express solidarity with a new float in NYC Pride.
The Bad
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Maybe this isn’t ‘queer’ enough news, but it looks like the NSA’s budget more than allows for storage and retrieval of every phone call in the US.
The Fugly
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Pope Frances says France’s gay marriage laws are already so last season.
- Michele Bachmann.
It came from the Tubes
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