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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 TV
  'Work It' Causes An Upset
  ABC sitcom angers GLAAD
  by makingsense / on Jan 17, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Gay Student Hazed to Death at FAMU
  A gay man at the university was ritually beaten to death as part of hazing in the famed FAMU marching band.
  by stephengfm / on Jan 10, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Church Weddings In The Cards For Danish Gays
  Church weddings to come for Danish Gays.
  by jasonshaw99 / on Nov 23, 2011

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• Archbishop of York: dont legalise gay marriage

  
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• National Sports Briefs

  
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• Jerry Mills (February 26, 1951 - January 28, 1993)

  
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• Bryher (September 2, 1894 – January 28, 1983)

  
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• Video: Let the people decide on marriage, US Governor says

  
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• Lisa Loeb

  
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• Why do gays want the right to marry? Simple: freedom (support the Mayors for the Freedom to Marry)

  
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• Washington State Senate Panel Advances Marriage Equality Bill

  
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• Newt Gingrich: Gay Marriage is Pagan, a Fundamental Violation of Our Civilization

  
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  On a conference call with right-wing religious leaders in Florida including Mat Staver, Jim Garlow, George Barna, and Jim Wildmon (which you can listen to here ), Newt Gingrich said same-sex marriage was a hallmark of the "rise of paganism" and a "fundamental violation of our civilization". Listen, AFTER THE JUMP ...
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• Mass. Representative Barney Frank Getting Hitched To Longtime Partner!

  
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  Yay! Congrats Barney! Massachusetts representative Barney Frank announced he will be marrying his longtime partner, Jim Ready . The rep said he will be heading home to Jersey to tie the knot. Frank has been in Congress since 1972 and has won reelection in landslides ever since. He became the first Congressman ...
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• Mass. Representative Barney Frank Getting Hitched To Longtime Partner!

  
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• Voting rights

  
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  By Mustang Bobby . New Jerseys legislature is on the verge of voting on marriage equality, and Gov. Chris Christie (R) is threatening to veto the law should it pass.  His stand is that it should be voted on by referendum, not "121 people in Trenton." Thats a weaselly way of getting out of it the ...
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• Reason #17 Why We Love Adam Levine: He Boycotts An Anti-Gay Mexican Restaurant

  
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• ‘Gay leper’ conference heads to London

  
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  London will play host to a conference titled ‘The Lepers Among Us’ today, aimed at “conflicted” people with gay impulses. Organisers, who have previously held the conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, have insisted the title is not meant to cause offence. The Core Issues Trust says it disagrees with the ...
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• Why I Cannot Support Same Sex Marriage

  
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  Same sex marriage has been a very topical subject in Scotland over recent months, with the launch of a consultation by the Scottish National Party (SNP) — which closed on Friday 9th December — on whether marriage in Scotland should be redefined to effectively legalise gay marriage and religious ceremonies ...
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• Pastor Claims Gay Men Should Wear Diapers!

  
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  I try not to talk too much about religion and politics. I vowed that after that Bishop Eddie Long fiasco, I was going to leave those kinds of stories alone because I didnt want those bible thumpin hypocrites plaguing me with their b.s. However, I had to share this story with you guys, but I was so appalled that ...
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• Violent prejudice against Jamaica’s gay people must stop | Maurice Tomlinson

  
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