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<strong>THE</strong>CONTENTS<br />
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FEATURES<br />
16 A CRISIS OF HATE<br />
A TREND IN RISING VIOLENCE<br />
22 IT’S RAINING BEARS<br />
INTERNATIONAL BEAR CONVERGENCE<br />
24 LOVE ACTUALLY<br />
LOVE STORY GOES VIRAL<br />
26 PICTURE PERFECT<br />
MATT “BEARRACUDA” CONSOLA AND CHRISTEENE<br />
28 CHAMPION OF SISTERHOOD<br />
<strong>THE</strong> DINAH WELCOMES MADAME GANDHI<br />
30 LIFE IS A HIGHWAY<br />
EASTSIDERS’ KIT WILLIAMSON AND JOHN HALBACH<br />
34 OPENLY BOB<br />
COMEDIAN BOB SMITH, RIP<br />
38 SEXUAL HEALING<br />
BAD DRAGON’S DEREK YOUNG<br />
40 WE ARE ALL ONE<br />
REVEREND JESSE BRUNE-HORAN<br />
43 ADVANCING SOCIAL CHANGE<br />
<strong>THE</strong> ONE ARCHIVES FOUNDATION<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
09 <strong>THE</strong> LETTERS READERS RESPOND<br />
10 <strong>THE</strong> TALK ADAM RIPPON<br />
12 <strong>THE</strong> STATE NEW ATTACK<br />
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42 <strong>THE</strong> ART LOCAL ARTISTS<br />
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<strong>THE</strong>EDITOR<br />
A new survey commissioned by the<br />
LGBT media-advocacy group GLAAD<br />
and conducted by The Harris Poll<br />
found that fewer non-LGBT adults<br />
reported being comfortable with their<br />
LGBT peers than in previous years,<br />
reports The Daily Beast.<br />
This marks the first time in the<br />
four-year history of the “Accelerating<br />
Acceptance” report that GLAAD<br />
has witnessed a decline in LGBT<br />
acceptance.<br />
“This year, the acceptance pendulum<br />
abruptly stopped and swung<br />
in the opposite direction,” GLAAD<br />
President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis<br />
wrote in the <strong>2018</strong> report, noting the<br />
sharp contrast between this year’s results<br />
and the last three years of watching<br />
Americans report being “more<br />
comfortable with <strong>LGBTQ</strong> people and<br />
more supportive of <strong>LGBTQ</strong> issues.”<br />
The annual GLAAD survey asks non-<br />
LGBT Americans to describe how comfortable<br />
they are in several scenarios<br />
involving LGBT people, like learning that<br />
a doctor is LGBT, witnessing a same-sex<br />
couple holding hands, or worshipping<br />
alongside an LGBT person at church.<br />
This year’s version, conducted in<br />
November 2017, found “a decline<br />
with people’s comfort year-overyear,”<br />
not just in a few of the scenarios,<br />
but “in every <strong>LGBTQ</strong> situation.”<br />
“This change can be seen as a<br />
dangerous repercussion in the tenor<br />
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<strong>THE</strong>ROSTOWREPORT<br />
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sound off as I write to you.)<br />
And what’s with the weird<br />
eye shadow? That’s how we<br />
applied our makeup for prom<br />
night when we were fifteen.<br />
Okay then. As another year<br />
begins, so does another set of<br />
legislative sessions around the<br />
country. Usually we suck it up<br />
and gird ourselves for battle<br />
once January rolls around,<br />
but it looks as if right wing<br />
lawmakers might be a little<br />
less aggressive this year. As<br />
the Gray Lady put it in a recent<br />
headline: “Wary, Weary Or<br />
Both, Southern Lawmakers<br />
Tone Down Culture Wars.”<br />
Of the 1,300 bills already<br />
introduced in Virginia’s new<br />
legislature, for example, you<br />
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religious freedom measure.<br />
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last November, and other<br />
places in the country are moving<br />
in the same direction.<br />
Then there’s the “weary”<br />
part of the picture; many of<br />
these GOP legislatures have<br />
trotted out divisive proposals<br />
to no avail year after year and<br />
everyone is getting tired of it.<br />
Next, there’s the business<br />
aspect. Fortune 500 corporations<br />
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unsung heroes in the fight for<br />
GLBT civil rights. From signing<br />
on to Friend of the Court briefs<br />
in major cases, to lobbying<br />
state and federal government,<br />
the vast majority of America’s<br />
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VAN HANSIS (L),<br />
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