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  • CES 2013 — NVIDIA debuts Tegra 4 processor

    Another year, another leap forward for NVIDIA’s ubiquitous Tegra mobile processor. A favorite among Android manufacturers — and also found in Microsoft’s Surface tablet —...

  • Supreme Court Sets Marriage Dates

    For two days in late March, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the two cases before the high court regarding same-sex marriage, the justices...

  • Matt Dallas appears to have come out on Twitter

    “Starting off the year with a new fiance, @bluehamilton. A great way to kick off 2013!” A tweet by 30-year-old actor Matt Dallas, best known...

  • Destination: Sonoma

    Less than an hour north of San Francisco is some of the best wine country in the U.S. and a welcoming destination for LGBT travelers....

  • Coverboy: Christian

    Dancing isn't just a booty-shaking pastime for Coverboy Christian, it's art. Raised with a sister who's a photographer, this 22-year-old Yorktown, Va., native often found...

  • Game Night

    You might be considered a D.C. old-timer if you remember ''The Feygala Feud'' at JR.'s Bar. Ester Goldberg got out there and, with the help...

  • Barney Frank Seeking Senate Appointment

    Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is openly jockeying for the Senate seat currently held by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe...

  • Tammy Baldwin Makes History

    Tammy Baldwin made history yesterday when she was sworn in as the U.S. Senate’s first out member. Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath of...

  • Minecraft achieves 5 million XBox 360 downloads, 17.5 million overall

    For those of you totally obsessed with the extraordinary Minecraft (“one more block, one more block”), here’s a bit of trivia you’ll explode like a...

  • House Approves Rules Permitting Continued Defense of DOMA

    As one of their first acts of the 113th Congress, the House of Representatives voted to allow the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group to continue...

  • 2013: A Look Ahead

    Welcome to the new year. If you've made some resolutions, best of luck in keeping them. They likely have to do with health and wealth....

  • Making History

    By June 2013 the Supreme Court's nine justices will determine the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act as well as California's Proposition 8...

  • Pride Surprise

    After you'd gotten your dose of Deborah Cox, once the beer garden ran dry, it might've seemed as though Capital Pride 2012 was packing up...

  • Obama Signs Defense Bill, Voices Concerns Over “Conscience Clause”

    President Barack Obama approved the defense budget for 2013, issuing a lengthy statement in the early morning hours of Thursday Eastern Time about his qualms...

  • Is Microsoft counting the days till the next Xbox console?

    *Name subject to change. It seems fairly likely that the E3 countdown clock just posted by Microsoft’s Larry Hryb on his blog is evidence that...

  • A Wish for 2013

    While 2012 was a bit of a mixed bag for me from a personal perspective, it was undeniably a remarkable year to be a gay...

  • Courtside for Marriage

    The fight to expand the definition of family to encompass the diversity of actual families continues in 2013. Legislators in Illinois, Minnesota and Rhode Island...

  • Calling on Clinton

    There were high expectations for former President Bill Clinton when he walked out onto the blue-carpeted stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.,...

  • Tying the Knot in Maryland

    Raise a glass to toast marriage equality. As of midnight, Jan. 1, same-sex couples in Maryland could legally marry, following a decades-long effort to secure...

  • War Torn

    War is a drug on which human society appears to be hopelessly addicted. That, at least, is the sad essence of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson...