Gender/GLBT

Signs of domestic violence aren't always obvious, especially in teen relationships

By Frederick McConnell, ThreeSixty

In March, several hundred protesters gathered at the state Capitol to call attention to a growing surge of Twin Cities women being domestically abused.

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Minnesota native Rabbi Julie Gordon caught in midst of Haredi youth protest at Women of the Wall service in Israel

By Staff, American Jewish World

Israeli riot police scuffle with haredi Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall plaza in a bid to keep them away from Women of the Wall’s monthly prayer service at the holy site in Jerusalem on May 10. (Photo: Flash90)

Early in the morning on Friday, May 10, thousands of haredi Orthodox youths gathered at the Kotel, the Western Wall plaza, to protest Women of the Wall as they held their Rosh Chodesh prayer service.

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Lao Teen Queen Mariah Rattanasamay steps up against bullying

By Chanida Phaengdara Potter, Little Laos on the Prairie

It can be hard tackling bullying while balancing in heels and wearing a crown. With studies reporting that bullying affects Asian American students more than any other race, points to the fact that bullying in schools is real. Much of the media and experts point to parents, educators, and policymakers to shake up the culture of bullying.

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Question Bridge at Juxtaposition Arts: Creating more complex and whole narratives of Black men

By Brenda Bell Brown and Yvette Howie, KFAI Radio

A new exhibit at Juxtaposition Arts in Minneapolis is called “Question Bridge – Black Males.” It’s a video installation that threads together fifteen hundred conversations with Black men across the United States in an attempt to create more complex, multi-faceted, and whole images and narratives of Black males.

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Love in retrospect

By Lisa Gray, Restless Gray Girl

What a crazy day I had yesterday! I went to St. Paul, MN to watch history being made as Minnesota's state senate voted to legalize gay marriage, an event that will happen today when Governor Mark Dayton signs it into law.

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Free at last: Same-sex marriage celebrations rock St. Paul, not to mention church and state

By Hlee Lee and Nick Coleman, The Uptake

An estimated 7,000 people partied down in St. Paul Tuesday, coming to the Capitol lawn and braving record 98-degree heat to celebrate the dawn of a new era: Same-sex marriages are now enshrined in law — a law signed under the blazing sun by Gov. Mark Dayton after a week’s worth of impassioned debates in the Legislature, years of tumultuous politics and decades of effort by a GLBT community that wouldn’t take no for an answer.

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OPINION | Minnesota legalizes same-sex marriage, but my same-sex marriage was real before the law passed

By Stephani Maari Booker, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Instead of attending to the novel I was supposed to be working on, I spent the afternoon in front of the TV watching the debate over and vote on the same-sex marriage bill in the State Senate on TPT’s Minnesota Channel. I listened to the passionate and heartfelt speeches given by DFL Senators Scott Dibble, Jeff Hayden, Patricia Torres Ray and others in favor of passing the bill for legalizing same-sex marriage, and — to be honest — I muted the TV sound when senators opposing the bill had the floor.

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The day after reform: What happens now that same-sex marriage is legal in Minnesota?

By David Schultz, Schultz's Take

With Governor Dayton’s signature on Tuesday at 5 PM on Tuesday May 14, same-sex marriage will be signed into law. The question though is what’s next, and what will change as a result of legalization of same-sex marriage? Here is what we know based on Minnesota law and what has happened in the other 11 states that have already legalized same-sex marriage.

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Celebrating at the signing of same-sex marriage legislation

By Ryan Cutler, TC Daily Planet

Governor Mark Dayton signed the Minnesota legislation authorizing same-sex marriage on May 14 at the Capitol. Crowds celebrated there and in downtown St. Paul.

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Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference gives counselors tools for ‘Healing the Village’

By Dwight Hobbes, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

It is said nothing is as irresistible as an idea whose time has come. The Fifth Annual 2013 Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference quite evidently fills that bill.

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