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To the Editor: While well-intentioned and informative, albeit ambitious, I fail to see the point of your Spring 2013 Wedding Issue since Minnesota still doesn’t legally allow nor recognize same-sex marriage.  Perhaps disillusionment and disgust [...]

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Dear Lavender, About Brett Stevens’ conversation with Rep. Andrea Kieffer… it was a well-written, expressive piece, and I was right there with him up until he wrote this: “There is a romanticization of the idea [...]

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Freedom to Marry and Priorities [Transcribed from a voicemail message and used with permission.] I did what you or someone else said in Lavender about contacting Mark Dayton, Tom Bakk, Paul Thissen, and Erin Murphy.  [...]

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Wendy Gaskill via Email: Dear Editor, I was extremely upset reading this opinion piece in your magazine.  This inflamatory article has no place in your magazine.  This is an excellent example of how GLB folks [...]

Jody Harpstead, CEO of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, Annual Report, , February 7th, 2012.

Commentary: Voter ID Sounds Simple, But It Isn’t

When the Voter ID amendment was first introduced earlier this year, most people thought this issue was a no brainer.  A recent poll suggests otherwise. A recent Star Tribune Minnesota Poll reports that 52% of [...]

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Pride in Pictures Cover I just want to say that I was very disappointed that you cast votes to determine the cover of the Pride [in Pictures] issue, making it some kind of popularity contest [...]

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Letters To The Editor: Ellen Krug, Making Friends, Magic Mike Pride Cover

Ellen Krug Dear Editor: I’m writing in response to Ellen Krug’s recent Skirting the Issues column, “A Different Opinion.”  Ms. Krug’s comment, ”It’s not necessary to destroy something in order to change it,” resonated strongly [...]

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The GLBT Community Has a Strong Ally with President Obama Last week, President Obama made history. He became the first sitting President in the history of this great nation to endorse the notion that loving [...]

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Phil Wilkie/HRC I’d like to propose HRC give 100% of this year’s proceeds from their annual dinner to help stem the epidemic of youth suicides in the Anoka school district. The HRC dinner committee should tell the [...]