A: See chart and photo below.
http://graphjam.com/2009/09/08/song-chart-memes-librarians-lesbians
Lesbrarians at Seattle Pride 2010
Lesbrarians = totally …
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Katy Perry is a player that I love to hate. I initially researched her for a gender studies paper about lesbians in the music industry and learned a variety of strange Katy Perry trivia. I haven’t thought much about her since then, until I saw the amazing video that I’ve embedded below, of this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle participants remaking Perry’s hit “California Gurls.” This video is utterly fantastic, but reminded me of what irks me most about Perry – that she has made a fortune for herself mocking the very subculture that she exploits. I’m not usually interested in the lives of artists outside of their music and I am definitely not of the opinion that one has to be LBGTQ in order to care about/be involved in queer issues, but Perry’s sheer hypocrisy just rubs me the wrong way. Perry is very open about the fact that she has never actually engaged in any type of queer behavior, clarifying in a hilarious interview with The New Gay that her hit … Click to continue reading the irony of katy perry’s success 
"Obama Pride" campaign logo. Wow, it’s been a little while. I’m really not sure where the time goes… But the fact that it’s November is just surreal. In any case, I thought I’d take this time to post a quick update about a few things. We are just a few days past the anniversary of the election of Barrack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. Obama ran on a campaign of “hope”, with a view to a new future for a struggling America. I’m sure we all remember how he openly courted the LGBTQ vote with promises of change. One year later, what has changed for the LGBTQ population? On the same day that Obama won the election, residents of California voted on Proposition 8, a heavily religiously funded campaign to strip away the rights of lesbian and gay people to marry. Running on the old fallback campaign of “protecting the sanctity of marriage”, the measure passed. It left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many who had, only hours before, been filled with hope when Obama’s win was officially announced. The American states where gay marriage is … Click to continue reading tumultuous legal times for the american queer community |
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