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Maryland Marriage Bill Passes Senate floor’s final reading 25-21
After about an hour of discussions from opposing views, Maryland’s State Senate voted 25-21 in favor of Senate Bill 116, The Civil Marriage Protection Act...
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The Next Test: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Attorney General Eric Holder declared in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that “the President and I have concluded...
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Death in Baltimore Focuses Attention on Anti-Transgender Violence and Discrimination
Equality Maryland spent the first half of Wednesday, Feb. 23 celebrating the second reading Senate passage of a bill that would grant same-sex couples marriage...
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Video Games Live at Strathmore
In Video Games Live, members of the National Philharmonic and National Philharmonic Chorale aim to combine the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra with...
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Wanda Jackson at the 9:30 Club
Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Queen of Rockabilly — and former girlfriend to Elvis Presley — Wanda Jackson is...
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Craig Ferguson tells John Waters: Transgender controversy made him feel ‘awful’ [video]
“I got into terrible trouble with some of the transgender community because they thought I was making fun of them because I was wearing a...
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Scissor Sisters perform on Letterman’s show [video]
The Scissor Sisters performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” The gay and gay-friendly members of the New York rock band are scheduled to...
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PBS’s ‘NOVA’ features gay synthetic biologist Jay Keasling [video]
This week on PBS you can catch “NOVA Science Now” which profiles Jay Keasling, an accomplished synthetic biologist in California. On the show, Keasling talks...
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Maddow discusses Obama Admin’s change on Federal gay marriage law [video]
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Prop 8 Lawsuit Lawyers Ask Ninth Circuit to Lift Stay and Allow California Same-Sex Marriages
Moments after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would no longer be defending challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act,...
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Amendments to Maryland Marriage Bill and Third Reading Set for Feb. 24
Senate Bill 116, The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, passed a second reading in the Maryland State Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 23 with...
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DOJ Stops Defending DOMA Provision
The Department of Justice has announced that it believes courts should apply heightened scrutiny to laws that classify people based on sexual orientation – particularly...
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BREAKING: DOJ Will No Longer Defend Section 3 of DOMA
The Department of Justice has made a decision that heightened scrutiny applies to sexual orientation...
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Tennessee school bill would prevent any discussion of homosexuality [video]
”The Don’t Say Gay bill raises all kinds of issues about anti-gay bias, free speech and government overreach. It limits what teachers and students are able...
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The Big Small Screen
While I love movies, I actually rather hate movie theaters. I realize that many people enjoy the communal experience of a movie — sharing in...
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Chamber Honorees
Following a nominations process that opened in December, the Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, better known as The Chamber, has announced the...
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Looking for Leaders
Metro Weekly will be accepting nominations for its third annual Next Generation Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of LGBT activists, artists and leaders under the...
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Family Ties
The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company's Juno and the Paycock, Sean...
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Winds of Change
When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...
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Cultural Crossroads
''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...
