Portrait of a Lauren on Fire
Off the Beat
At that age, I didn’t really know what a gay person was. I had grown up watching “The Birdcage” and “Will & Grace” with my mercifully liberal family.
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Asexual Awareness Week promotes education, understanding
Sunday marked the beginning of Asexual Awareness Week, a week dedicated to bringing awareness about and education of asexuality.
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‘Am I voting for more dick or what?’: CupcakKe, Girlpool shine at campus Voteside Lands
A collaboration between the ASUC Office of the External Affairs Vice President and ASUC SUPERB Productions, Voteside Lands was a celebration of civic engagement — to “exercise your right to vote while also exercising that right to turn tf up,” as a SUPERB Facebook post put it.
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CupcakKe is a freak in the beats at Cornerstone performance
Every detail of CupcakKe’s movement felt engineered to draw the loudest screams from her fans and yet also felt totally spontaneous.
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Making space for aces at Pride
For aces of all stripes, LGBTQ+ communities are often the first communities we seek out when we first start questioning our a/sexuality and realize that mainstream heterosexual spaces may not have a place for us
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Coming out as gay in the wake of sexual assault
On My Mind
What if I was simply repulsed by men, not attracted to women? What if I couldn’t experience my “true” sexual attraction to men because of my association with discomfort?
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Teaching tolerance
On My Mind
I feared for my sister’s experience at a school so appalled by trans people that they weren’t allowed to show themselves to students or speak about their experiences because of some fear of it spreading or denial that they even exist.
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Editorial cartoon reveals danger of anti-Semitism in critique of Israeli policy
As a liberal Jewish UC Berkeley alumnus who was very involved in student group life and the Jewish community, I am heartened to see your response to the wholly inappropriate and grotesque anti-Semitic cartoon the paper recently ran. It is quite disappointing that an easily preventable incident like this had
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Chalk graffiti targeting undocumented, LGBTQ+ communities seen on Sproul Plaza
Phrases written in chalk such as “Illegals, ICE is coming” and “They’re called Dreamers for a reason” were spotted on Sproul Plaza late Monday night.
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Hate the sinner
Heading West
The idea is that you hate the sin because you love the person and you don’t want to see them lead a harmful lifestyle.
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