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		<title>Why Pride Parades still matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a fan of parades. For one, I&#8217;m only 5&#8242;2&#8243; and can never see the floats and marching groups from behind that Really Tall Guy Who Always Stands In Front Of Me. Plus I don&#8217;t care for large crowds. But every year I make an exception for the gay pride parade, because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s it to you?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy to describe how it felt when California passed Proposition 8 – banning same-sex marriages – last week. The same happened in Oregon four years ago. We search for words to express how it feels to know that secretly (and openly) 52% of people hate us. We rage and we cry and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This land is your land, this land is my land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stacy Westbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent this email to the Obama/Biden campaign earlier today after reading Obama&#8217;s stance on Proposition 8 in California, same-sex marriage, and his Faith &#38; Family tour.

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Dear Obama/Biden Campaign,
I&#8217;ve been a big fan of the whole &#8220;change&#8221; campaign since the beginning, and feel like Obama can offer the nation some hope in the face of [...]]]></description>
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