Gender/GLBT

Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer: Class and the new anti-feminism

By David Schultz, Schultz's Take

Perhaps just as the glass ceiling is being broken, women are yet again being blamed for their failure to succeed. Or so it seems according to Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer.

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Two generations in St. Charles and Chatfield support freedom of all Minnesota couples to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

When Tessa Hoffman Schweitzer received a mail piece from Minnesota for Marriage targeting Matt Schmit, her state senator, the divorced mother turned to social media to object to the notion that the freedom to marry would harm children. She urged friends in the district to call Schmit and ask him to vote yes, happy to have Schmit's number readily at hand, courtesy of the anti-freedom group.

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Bluestem Prairie

Minnesota for Marriage flies in nice lady from big city to tell rural Minnesotans not to let metro push them around

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Bluestem had some errands to do in Montevideo Saturday and so joined about 75 other people at the Minnesota For Marriage (M4M) road show rally in the parking lot of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

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Bluestem Prairie

Kid fears: Minnesota for Marriage sends a mailer to St. Charles and warms up the RV for the weekend road trip

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

A divorced single mother in St. Charles, who supports the freedom to marry, received a mailer yesterday from Minnesota for Marriage that she shared via Facebook.

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Bluestem Prairie

Same-sex marriage supporters rally at Capitol despite snow

By Jessica Lee, The Minnesota Daily

Nearly a thousand Minnesotans cheered in the frigid hail and snow Thursday, urging state legislators to repeal the state’s law banning same-sex marriages.

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Two gay dads, two kids, a normal family

By Jacob Wheeler, The Uptake

Four-year-old twins Emmet and Gabriel are pretty typical kids.

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OUR STORIES | Two worlds, two identities for Lenda Xiong

By Mai Xiong, TC Daily Planet

Photo Courtesy of Lenda Xiong

When you think about what is going to be the happiest day of your life, what comes across your mind?

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Once an ally, University of Minnesota-Morris student now works for her own freedom to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement.

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Bluestem Prairie

Like water to the river: Western Minnesota couple see the freedom to marry as part of state's ethos

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

After a long day of rehabbing the rural Big Stone County farmhouse they've purchased together, Rebecca Terk and John G. White share stories and gumbo at the kitchen table in Terk's home in Clinton. The couple, who will marry this summer, also share a core belief in the freedom to marry.

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Multiparty coalition backing Minnesota same-sex marriage

By Michael McIntee, The Uptake

With less than six weeks left in Minnesota's legislative session, supporters of same-sex marriage are forming a coalition to make such marriages legal in the state. On Wednesday, Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's Democratic Farmer Labor Party, joined Independence Party Executive Committee member Matt Lewis, Former Green Party Chair Cam Gordon and Libertarian Party Chair Bob Odden to call on lawmakers to bring the issue to a vote in the House and the Senate.

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