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Obama supported same-sex marriage in 1996
”I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” From a 1996 survey submitted by Barack Obama to Outlines, a gay...
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Obama representative promises they’ll get rid of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
”You don’t hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it’s ‘Yes.”’ Obama administration spokesperson Robert Gibbs responding to a question from Thaddeus of Lansing,...
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Inauguration Calendar of Events
Friday, January 16 Celebrate Change Prepare for Tomorrow -- A cocktail reception in honor of the president and vice president, and a fundraiser in support...
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Prouder than Bombs
Here it is, some 60 years since the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the bombs are still falling. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and...
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Lobby Days Loom
Equal rights organizations in Maryland and Virginia both bid farewell to their longtime leaders last year, making way for two new leaders to head the...
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Afterbirth
Let's face facts -- a horror movie being released in January is a bad omen. But The Unborn boasts a writer/director with a track record...
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Noises On
Sitting in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre audience for Mike Daisey's one-man show, How Theater Failed America, you may find yourself wondering, ''Is Mike Daisey talking...
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Globetrotting Groove
DJ Luke Johnstone Luke Johnstone is a globetrotting gay club DJ, but he most frequently goes west to California and far east to Asia and...
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Quarter-Century Contest
Most reunions are bittersweet affairs, occasions to strengthen and celebrate bonds, and to reminisce and remember those absent. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, running Jan. 16 to...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: If you're cranky and you know it, clap your hands! Okay, it's out in the open and even if you admit it, the...
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Helping Hands
While it's not every year Washington sees an Inauguration Day -- let alone one with the anticipated attendance for President-elect Barack Obama's -- the Martin...
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The Pastor's Peers
If Election Day 2008 was the wedding between the GLBT community and President-elect Barack Obama, his subsequent choice of the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver...
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Music of the Moment
In an inauguration filled with firsts, local gays and lesbians also have their notable moments in the spotlight as Barack Obama is sworn in as...
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D.C.'s Countdown to Destiny
There have been other Inauguration Days in U.S. history and many are yet to come. But on Jan. 20, 2009, America will break a long...
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Warm Welcome
While Cancun is Mexico's most popular tourist destination, the resort city has undergone many Sybil-esque changes in its nearly 40-year history. Until 1970, the area...
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Gay bishop, Gene Robinson, invited to speak Sunday at Obama’s Inauguration kickoff [video]
”I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of...
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Gay video game players celebrate ‘Fable II’
”There is a history of GLBT characters appearing in video games, but it’s few and far between. Assuming that we continue to develop games that...
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Florida conservatives using scare tactics against transgender restroom rights [video]
”We just want to live our lives with the basic civil rights that everyone else has.” Donna Lee, 60, a MTF post-op transgender woman who...
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PBS tucks away Sir Ian McKellen’s full-frontal performance
”If it’s a distraction of that sort, it’s not worth the candle…. Every night, when I’d take my clothes off, you know what I used...
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HRC’s Manly Man Dance Party
In just about a week and a half, the Human Rights Campaign will be making a big splash during the Obama Inauguration, with a ball...
