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Wanda Sykes: I Feel Whole Again

Wanda Sykes says it didn’t take her long to decide to have both breasts removed. “I just wanted the best odds,” the comedian, 47, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “I made my decision because I love life.”

It Takes a Village: Standing with Our LGBT Youth

When I first became the executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), the nation’s leading organization advocating for black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, I was often asked why I had chosen to accept the position. I am a straight woman who was raised in suburban Florida with a military husband from urban Detroit, Mich., a family with strong Christian values and an upbringing that included attending one of America’s Historically Black College and Universities.

True LGBTQ Stories: After Facing Death, A Woman Faces Her Own Sexuality

It was easy to drink all the time, and that was one thing I could control in my life. I couldn’t, you know, control the feelings I had for women, I couldn’t control what other people would think about me being in a relationship with a woman, but I could drink, and that made me fun, and that made it easier to date guys, or to be in reckless relationships, and unprotected sex and being promiscuous, and all of these things.

Many Gather for Homeless LGBT Youth

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out this evening for a rally held by the Ali Forney Center, Queer Rising, New Alternatives, and FIERCE, to draw attention to the ongoing crisis of homeless LGBT youth in New York City. The Union Square Park event featured LGBT executives from the four sponsoring agencies, Councilman Lewis Fidler (D-Bergen Beach), and actress Ally Sheedy.

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