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How nice. A high school student wins a national writing award in the States for writing about gay marriage.
"Morgan Aitken-Young, a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory School, won first place in a small national contest this summer for writing about a big national issue: gay marriage.
Described by foundation and contest organizer Bobbi Carducci as a brave account of a nontraditional family, Aitken-Young's 1,900-word essay 'Unequal' is broken into short chapters that explore how a female character raised by a lesbian couple deals with homophobia from a young age until she is a grandmother.
'She took a rather controversial subject and wrote about it beautifully,' Carducci said."
You can read the full story here, and you can download her work here.
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I love Cynthia Nixon, and when "Sex and the City" was on I related in particular to her character, Miranda. It's nice to see that she still has balls outside of her role.
"I have two kids--one is six and one is twelve--and my twelve-year-old daughter has not known anything but George Bush. At least (adults) have a memory of somebody different, and a prospect that there will be somebody different in the future. It's been horrible for her to listen to the President, and listen to this fear-based, war-mongering, torture-supporting, homophobic, anti-immigrant bullshit."
The full story is over at Towleroad.
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How nice. A high school student wins a national writing award in the States for writing about gay marriage.
"Morgan Aitken-Young, a senior at Sacred Heart Preparatory School, won first place in a small national contest this summer for writing about a big national issue: gay marriage.
Described by foundation and contest organizer Bobbi Carducci as a brave account of a nontraditional family, Aitken-Young's 1,900-word essay 'Unequal' is broken into short chapters that explore how a female character raised by a lesbian couple deals with homophobia from a young age until she is a grandmother.
'She took a rather controversial subject and wrote about it beautifully,' Carducci said."
You can read the full story here, and you can download her work here.
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I love Cynthia Nixon, and when "Sex and the City" was on I related in particular to her character, Miranda. It's nice to see that she still has balls outside of her role.
"I have two kids--one is six and one is twelve--and my twelve-year-old daughter has not known anything but George Bush. At least (adults) have a memory of somebody different, and a prospect that there will be somebody different in the future. It's been horrible for her to listen to the President, and listen to this fear-based, war-mongering, torture-supporting, homophobic, anti-immigrant bullshit."
The full story is over at Towleroad.
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