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Virginia National Guard Gay Ban Bill Dies in Committee
Some news tonight from the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Attempts to ban gays from openly serving in the Virginia National Guard and, conversely, to have the Guard...
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Glee’s gay teenage dream, Darren Criss, visits Ellen Degeneres [video]
”It’s been really special for me because the character is something that I’m very personal about. It’s something that I believe in. It’s just so...
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MD Marriage Equality Effort Picks Up GOP Support
Sen. Allan Kittleman (R-Carroll, Howard), who had been supporting civil-union legislation in Maryland in recent weeks, today announced his support for full marriage equality —...
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David Pakman asks: What the difference between Dr. Laura & Westboro’s Shirley Phelps-Roper? [video]
Talk show host David Pakman said he looked up the beliefs of satellite radio advice guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and says he read that she...
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All of Us
There are different ways to mark the anniversaries of Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc. Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks formed the organization in 1985....
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Herndon Hideaway
Last summer, So Addictive Lounge started a gay night on Wednesdays. By November, Thursdays and Fridays had gone gay too. ''We were thinking about adding...
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Temperature Rising
Eddie Elias knows a thing or two about heating up and cooling down a room. He toiled for 12 years as a heating and air-conditioning...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: What gets big must get small. What seems dark carries the seeds of light. What was impossible may now be merely cutting edge....
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Deconstructions
It's not often that a top Washington tourist destination aims to reach the stone-washed masses and the discerning, over-educated locals, but Ford's Theatre strives undaunted....
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Fractured Fairy Tale
Of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, the illustrious Dr. Johnson wrote: “To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names...
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Marine Life
While being discharged from the military just for being gay can deal a gut-wrenching blow to a member of the armed forces, it's certainly nice...
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Military Serenade
Mike Almy only came out to his parents after he became a leading activist pushing repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. ''I...
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Winds Power
''We're a family,'' says Laura Harris, president of D.C.'s Different Drummers. ''We try to take care of each other, we look out for each other.......
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Muslims, Chinese, Russians will have a ‘hard time’ with gay US troops says Virginia Republican Bob Marshall [video]
”Unit cohesion is compromised. You’re going to have a significant departure from troops in the Marines. Up to 48% will quit or leave early. Uh,...
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Persecuted gays seek asylum: Required to prove they’re gay [video]
”Judges and immigration officials are adding a new hurdle in gay asylum cases that an applicant’s homosexuality must be socially visible…. The rationale is that if...
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Illinois legalizes civil unions for lesbian, gay couples [video]
”I think this is something really, really special, because we believe in civil rights and we believe in civil unions. And that’s what we’re going...
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Iowa legislature moving to ban gay marriage despite testimony against discriminatory bill [video]
”The vote today by House Republicans was a big step backwards for the constitutional rights of all Iowans. I remain committed to protecting the rights...
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3 Dollar Bill
Some of the national gay community’s most talented and dynamic writers appear for a queer reading at the 2011 Association of Writers & Writing Programs...
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George W. Bush’s daughter, Barbara, supports gay marriage with HRC [video]
”Barbara Bush’s advocacy shows that equality knows no party label.” Joe Solmonese in a press release from the Human Rights Campaign. He announced a video...
