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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In the video above, MSNBC's Professor Melissa Harris-Perry talks about how female sexual desire has been treated throughout history in our male-dominated culture. Pointing to a New York Times Magazine article "Unexcited" about Lybrido, a new pill awaiting FDA approval that's supposed to "stoke sexual desire in women,"

A male student at Riverview High School in Tampa Bay Florida was called out of class to the principal's office because he wore high heel shoes to school, reports Tampa Bay's Fox station. School principal Bob Heilmann decided it was best if the student not where the shoes and told him to take them off. See video below.A teacher notified the school principal and said that the boy’s high heels were

Even though Hugh Jackman crashed and hurt his eye doing a zip-line stunt for Oprah Winfrey in Australia, the Queen of Talk's ultimate Australian adventure is a hit down under. The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney said her visit feels like a "presidential, papal and royal visit all rolled into one."I saw the show yesterday when she told her "ultimate viewers" that she was taking them, the entire

Related: What to do when Ginni Thomas calls youEmbedded above is video of Anita Hill in 1992 after the infamous Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The late Ed Bradley interviews her on CBS's 60 Minutes.I believed Anita Hill when she accused Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991. I watched the hearings as did much the rest of the country. It was the greatest show on Earth," pre-O.J

Right now on CNN, Joel Burns, an openly-gay council member in Fort Worth, TX, is being interviewed. His emotional appeal made Tuesday night, October 12, at a city council meeting has gone viral. It's posted below the CNN video here in its entirety and was aired earlier today on the network. Burns gave the speech in response to the rash of suicides resulting from bullying in general and

Sex and the 50-Year-Old WomanBy Nordette N. AdamsWith a body like Helen Mirren's-- never burdened by babies stretchingskin to an alien curve--she is much at 50 the same as 30, bold and glistening,fevered with lust.With a body like Venus of Willendorf,stretched after bearing fresh blood,she forgets her name, contemplatesskin alien as cratered moons cooling,damp and mysterious--the unexplored cave.

I'm using this image of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land because that's how I feel right now, like I'm a stranger in a strange land. I'm arguing for a position I would otherwise not argue because part of my spiritual belief is live and let live. Consequently, I do not in general condone the outing of gay people who want to remain in the closet nor would I personally out a closeted gay,

This post is pending publication at BlogHer.com.This could be a horrible thing. This post may be the proverbial train wreck the curious must watch--an opinionated heterosexual writing about a controversial topic deemed "queer," as it relates to the sensibilities and politics of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities. But I'm writing about it because, well, it's a train wreck with