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- Martina Navratilova: Jason Collins' Coming Out 'Will Save Lives' 29 April 2013
  Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who helped pave the way for Jason Collins' coming out with her own years ago, praised Jason Collins in a Sports Illustrated column today. She says, humbly, that although she had less support and lost endorsements it was easier in a way: When I came out, in 1981, I didn't have much public support and I know I lost […]
- The Boy Scouts Made It Worse 25 April 2013
  By ARI EZRA WALDMAN The headline, "Boy Scouts Move to Allow Gay Members," read with such promise. Including gays in the Boy Scouts has been a goal of our community for decades, most notably since James Dale challenged the Scouts' discriminatory policies in the 1990s. A sharply divided Supreme Court rejected Mr. Dale's challenge, but more […]
- Op-Ed Contributor: Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists 24 April 2013
  Taking women’s names off the list of American novelists makes it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world.
- North Sea Texas (2011) rating: 9/10 15 April 2013
  This movie has nothing to do with America and Texas. The author and director are Belgian. The movie is set in a Flemish seaside town. A quiet young gay boy with a neglectful single mom finds refuge with a neighbor and her children. Yes, it is a coming of age tale, full of innocent love and love lost. The boy protagonist is nearly silent which makes anything […]
- Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) rating: 7/10 17 April 2013
  A professional woman with greater education and a better career can't stay married to a man with no job and no ambition. But darn it, she gets along so well with the guy that they are still best friends. Seems implausible, but the movie spins it into comedy and interesting choices for the woman.Elijah Wood plays the girl's gay sidekick (actually bo […]
- China Mourns the Death of a Student in Boston Blast 17 April 2013
  The graduate student who was killed was one of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who have come to America to be educated at its universities.
- The End of Google Reader Sends Internet Into an Uproar - NYTimes.com 15 March 2013
  Shared by albee Change.org petition After Google announced that it will be shutting down Google Reader on July 1, unhappy customers turned to the Internet to protest the closing. Read more…
- Powering Down Google Reader 13 March 2013
  Posted by Alan Green, Software Engineer We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013). We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too. There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring […]
- Google Reader Being Retired 14 March 2013
  Edgewood_Dirk writes "According to the official blog, Google Reader is being retired on July 1st, 2013. The main reasoning seems to be its decline in usage over the last few years. Users and developers will be able to retrieve their RSS data using Google Takeout." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Op-Ed Columnist: The Market Speaks 8 March 2013
  Yes, the Dow Jones industrial average has been setting new records this week, but the message from the markets is actually not a happy one.
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Naturally, readers or surfers have their own preferences as shown by the Top Posts column. I tend to like most of the Top Posts too, but there are a few posts which don’t consistently make Top Posts (perhaps because of quirks of search keywords or the unknowable what-not), but which I personally think are particularly awesome and underrated, even if I do say so myself:

Gays, Evolution: Population control, Uncles

Should a gay guy shave?

Little indications: gaydar

10 Benefits of Being Gay

What’s up with white guys with (east) asian girls