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www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

Pride profile: I will be the first asexual grand marshal at NYC's Pride March

A model and activist from the UK has said she is hoping to make a really great statement and help more Pride events to be blatantly inclusive as the first asexual grand marshal at New York City's Pride March.The march takes place on June 25 and Yasmin Benoit, 26, from Reading, aims to help more asexual people feel as though they are part of the LGBT+ community.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Talking about monkeypox? Then you should be talking about sex

People line up to receive the monkeypox vaccine.
Fatherly
10 months ago
Fathers

So, Your Kid Walked In On You Having Sex...

For a second there, life was pretty good.You and your partner were intertwined and doing what came naturally at 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday.Then, a frightened little voice rang out from the corner of the room and hit you like a bucket of ice water.Your child caught you having sex.Suddenly, you have to make a hairpin turn from super freak to super dad.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Did Valentine's Day start as a Roman party or to celebrate an execution?

History According to one popular tale, printed in The Boston Globe in 1965, St. Valentine was arrested after he defied an order by Emperor Claudius that forbade Roman soldiers from getting married.Valentine's Day is upon us again.It's a time of candlelit dinners, heart-shaped candy boxes from the drugstore and (depending on your relationship status) watching old romantic comedies while you drink wine by yourself.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US news

The Origins of Valentine's Day: Was it a Roman Party or to Celebrate an Execution?

This article was first published in 2017.It has been updated.Valentine's Day is upon us again.It's a time of candlelit dinners, heart-shaped candy boxes from the drugstore and (depending on your relationship status) watching old romantic comedies while you drink wine by yourself.It's a great celebration.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

How Long Good Sex Should Last In Your 40s

How long should sex last in your 40s?Not just any sex, but good sex?It depends, says Debra Herbenick, the director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University in Bloomington."There's no magic number," she previously told Fatherly, when talking about how long should sex last after 40.
The Marginalian
1 year ago
Inspiration

The Temple of Flora: Stunning Illustrations of Flowers Inspired by Erasmus Darwin's Radical Scientific Poem About the Sexual Reproduction of Plants

A century before Emily Dickinson wrote that "to be a Flower is profound Responsibility," Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731-18 April 18, 1802) - Charles's grandfather and his great influence on evolutionary ideas - set out "to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science, and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter ones, which form the ratiocination of philosophy."
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

Most Republicans want students to learn about everything except for LGBTQ people

Most Americans support teaching about controversial topics in school, except when those controversial topics deal with LGBTQ people.
Advocate
1 year ago
Education

Trans Football Player's Dad Slams School System's Anti-LGBTQ Policies

The father of a transgender son is objecting strongly to a set of school policies on LGBTQ+ identity issued recently by the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, S.D.
Advocate
1 year ago
Education

Trans High School Football Player May Fall Victim to Anti-Trans Policy

The father of a transgender son is objecting strongly to a set of school policies on LGBTQ+ identity issued recently by the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, S.D.
TNW | Neural
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

3 ways next-gen academics can avoid an unnecessary AI winter

There are two realities when it comes to artificial intelligence.In one, the future's so bright you need to put on welding goggles just to glance at it.
TNW | Neural
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Why 'facial expression recognition' AI is a total scam

A team of researchers at Jilin Engineering Normal University in China recently published a paper indicating they'd built an AI model capable of recognizing human facial expressions.
Queerty
1 year ago
LGBT

"Straightest guy" Nick Fuentes says "having sex with women is gay" and the Internet just can't with him

Extreme-right, white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes has a laundry list of deplorable views.
Fatherly
5 years ago
Fathers

HBO's Smut is Disappearing. That's Bad for Kids

HBO has released a statement saying that it will be winding down its late night (read: soft porn) programming in order to develop more original shows like Game of Thrones.The reason for the change?
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
Education

Christian students sue for censorship after they allegedly harassed people at an LGBTQ vigil

Three Christian students are suing the University of Idaho students for allegedly censoring them from expressing their opposition to same-sex marriage.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Unions and law groups push to scrap Queensland clause allowing religious bodies to sack openly LGBTQ+ people

Peak legal organisations and trade unions have joined calls to reform aspects of Queensland's anti-discrimination laws, including scrapping a clause used by some religious groups to justify contracts that suggest they could sack openly gay, transgender or unmarried people.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

Citipointe Christian College teachers threatened with dismissal for expressing homosexuality

Teachers at Brisbane religious school Citipointe Christian College are being asked to sign employment contracts that warn they could be sacked for being openly homosexual.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Texas attorney general says Austin school Pride Week celebration breaks state law

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021.
Paxton said a week-long celebration of Pride events in Austin this week violated state law.
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