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Federal Leaders Honor Kameny
Various government officials, members of Congress, local community leaders and others congregated at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill to bid a final...
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A Lady Gaga Tease: You and I
Lady Gaga just released a clip of her performance of “You and I,” from Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden....
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Coverboy: Tony
Tony, 23, is trying Brooklyn on for size. But you can still see plenty of him down here, as he's working at Baltimore's Club Hippo...
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At the White House Veterans Day Breakfast, One More Sign of a Post-DADT America
This morning, Veterans Affairs Secretary Ric Shineski and his wife hosted a breakfast in the East Room of the White House in honor of Veterans...
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The 9:30 Club wins the Top Club prize at 2011 Billboard Touring Awards
Congratulations to our hometown’s iconic 9:30 Club, which won the Top Club honor at the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. The award is attendance-based, so clearly...
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Soccer star David Testo comes out
“iving the life of a professional athlete and being gay is incredibly hard. It’s like carrying around a secret, you know, and carrying around luggage...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
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Obama Withdraws DuMont Nomination, Selects Replacement Nominee Taranto
As reported earlier today at Metro Weekly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit nominee Edward DuMont had requested that President Barack Obama withdraw...
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Outspoken #42 – Flag Hags
Host Ebone Bell wanders onto the field of the DC Gay Flag Football League's Quarter-Finals where she queries players on the McRib and sleeping with...
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Senate Judiciary Committee Passes DOMA Repeal Bill Out of Committee
[Photo: Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) talks with Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese and legislative director Allison Herwitt, with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)...
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Edward DuMont, Out Gay Appeals Court Nominee, Asks Obama to Withdraw His Nomination
After waiting more than 18 months without even receiving a committee hearing on his nomination, Edward DuMont, a partner at the Wilmer Hale law firm,...
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Clinton's Administrations
{Kate Clinton (Photo by Jurek Wajdowicz)} There's a fine line between charisma and charm. If charisma is the bait, charm is the rod and...
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Kameny To Be Honored on Capitol Hill
The official memorial service for Frank Kameny, the pioneering gay-rights activist who died Oct. 11 at age 86, will be held on Capitol Hill Tuesday,...
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Carrie Evans Named Executive Director of Equality Maryland
Equality Maryland, the state's primary LGBT-advocacy organization, announced Nov. 10 it has hired attorney and longtime activist Carrie Evans as executive director. The news comes...
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Pulling the Lever
My first time going to vote was with my mother, a recollection that's gauzy enough to indicate that it was probably somewhere around 1974. The...
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Kramer vs. Everyone
Larry Kramer has kept his Cassandra act going for an awfully long time. To summarize: Why aren't you angrier? Why aren't you in the streets?...
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Off-Year Advances
The off-year elections, normally a slow-paced night for national coverage, featured several ballot measures – including Ohio, Mississippi and Maine – that garnered significant attention....
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Clinton's HIV Address
In a major address delivered Nov. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that more than...
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Mendelson Fields Testimony
Longstanding tensions and the often rocky working relationships between LGBT activists and members of the Metropolitan Police Department were once more highlighted during a three-hour...
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Bloody Business
Can you handle the tooth? Seriously -- as in an Asian restaurant worker's rotted black tooth that's yanked out in the kitchen and finds its...
