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Marriage Equality Bill Weathers Amendments in Maryland Senate; Afternoon Vote Expected
The Maryland Senate resumed debate today concerning amendments to HB 438, a bill to legalize marriage equality, just a day after opponents were able to...
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Obama’s Decision Not to Defend DOMA, One Year Later
A year ago today, the announcement about the Defense of Marriage Act came by way of a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to House...
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Romney’s Veiled Reference to Gay Adoption Was GOP Debate’s Only LGBT Mention
The Republican presidential debate in Arizona on Wednesday night, Feb. 22, featured no...
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Rocky Reckoning
It must've been the summer of 1979, because I remember specifically that people were talking about American Airlines Flight 191. The ill-fated DC-10 lost one...
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Baltimore County Passes Gender-Identity Bill
The Baltimore County Council passed a transgender rights bill prohibiting discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression on a...
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Reflections on Black History Month
Since 1926, February was known for the celebration of black American history. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated ''Negro History Week,'' which it...
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Bad Company
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...
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Hooray for Hollywood
Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...
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National Briefs: Getting Better, Going West
Nebraska bill prohibits protections The Nebraska State Senate is scheduled to debate a bill Feb. 22, after Metro Weekly deadline, that would prohibit local municipalities...
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Oscar Fix
Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...
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Otter Season
Once thought to be an endangered species, otters are now so prevalent in D.C. that, like deer, a hunting season has sprung up. Of course,...
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Camp Classic
Audience participation is common, part of the human experience. In its most simple expression, it's applause. Add a bit more gusto, and you've got a...
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Global Briefs: Eating Out, Standing Up
Prime Minister's Down Under dinner date with gay families Three Australian same-sex couples on Tuesday, Feb. 21, had a unique opportunity to lobby Prime Minister...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to separate facts from fantasies, don't be too quick to discard the bathwater...
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Reagon's Rites
Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...
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Arts Hub
Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...
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BREAKING: DOMA’s Federal Definition of Marriage Unconstitutional, Judge Rules in Golinski Case
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued its order finding that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act —...
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U.S. Conference Of Catholic Bishops’ Election Campaign Equates LGBT, Reproductive Protections With “War on Religion”
This past week, Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) held a hearing titled, “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom...
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Maryland Senate Delays Debate Over Marriage Equality Bill One Day as Opponents Regroup
The Maryland Senate has postponed debate over a bill to bring marriage equality to the Free State, allowing opponents extra time to determine a strategy...
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13 Camp Films Everyone Should See
From Hollywood's golden age to John Waters's trash cinema, the camp films that define a genre
