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Gingrich Suggests Republican Evolution on Same-Sex Marriage
In an extensive interview with The Huffington Post, former Republican presidential candidate and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggested the Republican Party must evolve...
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Gay Maui hotel gets Travel Channel makeover
Despite outstanding reviews, the owners of Maui Sunseeker resort have struggled with operating their LGBT-friendly Hawaiian oasis. Located in Kihei, on Maui’s beautiful south shore, Sunseeker is the...
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2012: The Year in Review
The year may have at times seemed like little more than a presidential campaign, but 2012 saw its share of sorrows and bright spots. By...
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Capitol Hill and the White House
With the re-election of President Barack Obama, gains in LGBT representation in Congress, and four victories for marriage equality at the ballot box, advocates declared...
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Maryland Marks Historic Win
It was a long time in the making, but advocates of marriage equality now have four electoral victories in their ''win'' column – up from...
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Opening the Closet's Glass Door
To use some classic Washington parlance, when it comes to LGBT celebrities and politicians, we have our known unknowns and we have our unknown unknowns....
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Tempest in a Deep-Fat Fryer
One of the saltier controversies of 2012 was the fury surrounding fast-food restaurant Chick-fil-A, its financial ties to anti-gay causes and its outspoken president's opinion...
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Year of Kameny Controversy
It's been more than a year since local gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny died and yet he has still not been laid in his final...
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Sane Choices Start at Home
If I had owned a gun at any point in the past 25 years or so, I would most likely be dead by now. Not...
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Hope and an Executive Order
Sen. Barack Obama was well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination for president in late February 2008. It was more than a month...
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CUAllies Rejected
Two weeks after the Catholic University of America rejected the proposal for CUAllies, a student organization for LGBT students and their allies, the club's lead...
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A Ziegfeld's Christmas
Heard the rumor about local drag legend Ella Fitzgerald appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race? ''Why in the hell?'' retorts Fitzgerald. ''No, baby, that's for the...
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Vocal Prowess
I must confess: I've never seen Les Misérables onstage. Until a few weeks ago, when I finally threw myself into all things Schönberg, Javert and...
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Entrepreneurial Advice for the Season
For most people, work slows down this time of year. But for anyone who owns a small retail business, this is crunch time. Business owners...
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O, Tannenbaum
A man whose last name is best known from a Christmas song, leading a Jewish-themed show on Christmas Eve? It's not just funny -- Rob...
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Singing Santas
Right now, there are surprise gifts in store for everyone at Signature Theatre. ''We're going to put songs in stockings,'' explains singer Bobby Smith, ''and...
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Stein Club Upholds Elections
Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest LGBT political organization, overwhelmingly rejected challenges to the club's Dec. 3 executive-board elections Wednesday evening,...
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Congressional Committee Tames Rep. Akin’s Anti-Gay Exit
A final attempt by outgoing anti-gay Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) to target gay and lesbian troops by writing discrimination into the Pentagon’s budget appears to...
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LGBT Coalition Urge House GOP To Drop Costly DOMA Legal Defense
The leaders of the nation’s largest LGBT-rights organizations urged Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to cease funding the legal defense of the Defense...
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Stein Election Winners Strike Back
[UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict at the John A. Wilson Building, the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club announced Dec. 19 that its “special meeting”...
