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Heart & Soul: Another look at bullying

It seems like just about every week, we hear about another young man or woman who has committed suicide as a result of bullying.

Unless you were thin, rich and gorgeous growing up, you can probably remember being teased and tormented when you were in school. Of course, not too thin, and not too rich. But if you were overweight, wore glasses, not good in sports or not part of the “in crowd,” you were probably bullied. And if there was any chance you could be LGBT, even if no one in the world knew for sure, including yourself, you went to the top of the list.

Profiles in Advocacy: Taking on bullies

Who was the first human bully? As I contemplate October’s designation as National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, I wonder that very thing.

If we see bullies as individuals who assert their dominance over a weaker individual to achieve their own ends, was it the first human that recognized themselves as stronger and hungrier than the rest of the tribe? We see and understand this trait in animals but, in an enlightened civilization, why does it continue to happen among humans?

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VIDEO: Meet LGBT History Month icon Chris Hughes

(Editor's note: October is LGBT History Month, celebrated annually to recognize the notable achievements of LGBT people throughout time. Each day this month, Equality Forum will feature one LGBT icon who has made notable contributions to society and SDGLN will publish the story here in the Causes section.)

Chris Hughes is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Facebook. He is the publisher and editor in chief of The New Republic, a leading public policy magazine.

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Screen Scene: Social Media, religious zealots and free speech create a volatile cocktail

Speech comes with responsibility. Early on in life, most of us are taught by means of gentle persuasion or violent response that words, like deeds, have consequence. A polite admonition or a punch in the nose can be clear consequence of the power of words.

Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian from California, is part of a group called the National American Coptic Assembly (NACA). The group is decidedly anti-Islamic, and apparently Sadek decided to make a video.

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The Blogoweet: Facing our fears and laughing at public foibles

(Editor’s note: The Blogoweet is a social media column where commentary will focus on the blogosphere and twitterscape as topics within in it may interest, apply to, or affect, the LGBT community.)

I began this column back in September, planning it to be a fun and regular analysis and/or summation of the perks and quirks of Social Media.

Not all that surprisingly, it got hijacked early on by my own social commentary, which can and still will happen on occasion.

Both of those first two columns took off like a wildfire, each with lives of their own.

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COMMENTARY: The power, and abuse, of Social Media

Four years ago, I largely ignored the trendy use of Social Media on the Internet. But after a social experiment of my own, I discovered the incredible power of Social Media to reconnect with people and make new friends or connections around the globe.

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In the Raw: Couples Facebook therapy

I see more and more couples walking into my therapy office lately with a common theme: Facebook and how it has become an avenue to many problems in their relationships.

For example, if a couple is struggling with jealousy, partners may be more prone to "reading between the lines" when they see a friend wink to a post.

Or an emotionally unfulfilled partner may reach out for comfort to others online, because their partner is unavailable. Or maybe you don't want to have your same-sex relationship exposed online, but your partner feels hurt by the relationship being hidden.

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Social media leads charge to squash Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill

An online petition and social media movement helped save lives in Uganda’s homosexual community following the Ugandan Parliament’s attempt to re-introduce an “Anti-Homosexuality” bill that could sentence LGBT Ugandans to death for “aggravated homosexuality.”

As web flourishes, gay groups see enrollments dwindling

SAN FRANCISCO -- The lobby of San Francisco’s stylish Parc 55 Hotel was packed with bears. Not beasts from the forest, but large, hirsute gay men in jeans and hoodies.

The men gathered for the International Bear Rendezvous last month, lounging on red Barcelona chairs and hugging near the elevators. Over the last 17 years, the event has attracted thousands of grizzly men and their admirers from around the world.

But this year’s festivities marked a bittersweet finale — the bear event is now extinct.

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