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Michael Sam poised to become the NFL’s first openly gay player… assuming he’s chosen in May’s draft

First-team all-American University of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam officially came out today. According to Sam, who told his teammates that he was gay at the beginning of last season, he had the sense that his sexual orientation was about to made public, and decided that he’d rather do it himself, on his own terms, […]

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Amazon de-lists gay books

My friend Minal recently released a book through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It’s called “Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents,” and, judging from what I’ve seen thus far, it’s doing quite well. At least, it seemed to be climbing Amazon’s sales rankings, before being yanked off earlier today. It appears as […]

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