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Obama Lauds One Year Anniversary of DADT Repeal
President Barack Obama issued a statement commemorating the one year anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” earlier today, describing the end of...
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Friday Features Dueling Press Conferences from Both Sides of the Marriage-Equality Debate
The struggle for the media spotlight is on – on both sides of the Potomac – when it comes to marriage equality. Today, a group...
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Australian Senator Worries what Qantas Move to Dubai Means for Gays, Other Travelers
“What precautions and warning will Qantas provide unmarried passengers who are single or in de facto relationships? … Will there be warnings to gay Australians...
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One Year Later, DADT Repeal Resonates
Back in 1992, the height of my activist period, there were two main issues I cared about: HIV/AIDS and military service. AIDS was, and remains,...
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Line in the Sand
The summer between sixth and seventh grade – for me, 1981 – I'd gone to visit my dad, stepmom and new baby sister. It was...
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Rose to the Occasion
The National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA) founded the National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NGMHAAD) – Thursday, Sept. 27 – to ''help gay...
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The Multi-Billion-Dollar Castle
''Every civil rights movement reaches a juncture where the advancing minority realizes that gaining the keys to the castle requires economic power. The LGBT movement...
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Romney Would Still Oppose Marriage Equality For Gay Grandchild
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney courted Latino voters on Wednesday during an appearance at a forum broadcast on the Spanish-language Univision channel. Held at the...
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Cult Classic
The Master is a magnum opus of conflict. No man, attitude, sight or sound is immune to its discord. Paul Thomas Anderson uses every millimeter...
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Queen for a Day
Timed perfectly for the Tudor fever generated by author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and its sequel, the Washington National Opera's season-opener of Donizetti's Anna Bolena...
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A Sailor's Life, No Longer at Sea
At first glance, you can easily spot qualities that mark Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Ratliff as a Navy man, beyond the close-cropped hair. There's the...
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This Gay Woman's Army
Despite the repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'' Jennifer Pollom's work life hasn't changed much in terms of what she divulges to her co-workers or...
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Show Pieces
What do you call a farce that's not particularly funny? The real Mackay. Of course, what you want is the real McCoy – something from...
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The Fearless Sergeant
It's a day he says he'll never forget. On July 11, 2007, John Cephas stood in line with hundreds of other recruits at the United...
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Passionate Feeling
Melissa Etheridge ends her new album 4th Street Feeling in a state of heat, plain and simple. ''I think I'm ready to try my hand...
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Rock Starr
To set the record straight, Garrison Starr is not the girl Katy Perry kissed and told about in song. ''No, no, it wasn't,'' Starr laughs....
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Intimate Festival
''We've had crazy responses from people already worried about whether or not they're going to be able to get in,'' says Angela Lombardi, general manager...
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Adam Lambert comes to the 9:30 Club for Maryland Marriage Equality
The openly gay pop star and former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert has announced a surprise concert next Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the 9:30 Club...
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Orbital playing US dates starting this weekend.
The electronic duo Orbital — Paul and Paul Hartnoll — is coming to the states next week to several west coast dates. They’ll be playing...
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins Signs Onto Immigration Equality Bill
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins broke with her party today when she became the first Republican senator to co-sponsor a bill that would grant binational...
