News + Politics
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Capital Pride Countdown
If Destiny B. Child's (aka Richard Legg) performance at the final Capital Pride meeting on Wednesday, May 13, is any indication, organizers of the 34th...
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Marriage Matters
The setting was nearly divine, as marriage-equality activists gathered in a hall of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Columbia Heights. The sky turned to twilight...
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Woman on the Verge
When the June/July issue of The Advocate magazine featured ''Forty under 40,'' an exhaustive list of young GLBT people, running through the worlds of business,...
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Tribal Warfare
There is plenty of inequity in our country. Whether it's poverty, discrimination, oppression, take your pick. We're far from perfect. We may be richer, more...
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Sneak attack: Obama quietly weakens anti-gay military policy … by doing nothing?
”This decision makes it significantly easier to strike down at least the application of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in many if not most cases…. We’re...
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Ellen Degeneres delivers funny, touching, and tres gay commencement speech [video]
”I didn’t really have a plan. My point is, by the time I was your age, I thought I knew who I was. But I...
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Help: Gay store in DC offers reward for swarm of thieves caught on tape [video]
”What’s really been advantageous about this posting is it’s gotten other retailers to call us and let us know that they too have been victims...
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Washington state Gov. signs gay-friendly “Everything but Marriage” bill
”They will make for stronger families, and when we have stronger families, we have a stronger Washington state.” Chris Gregoire, Governor of Washington, signing into...
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Tim Kaine: Military’s gay policy ”needs change” but we’re kinda busy
”And then finally, on “don’t ask, don’t tell” the president has said, and I share this, this is a policy that needs to change. It...
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Race-n-Religion combos determined to undermine gay marriage in DC, NYC
”Why do they get to appeal to blacks as if blacks are their property and I can’t go to that same group?” More nonsense from...
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Faith and credit: Lesbian wins adoption rights case in Florida
”Florida law specifically provides that adoption decrees from other states must be recognized in this state. Regardless of whether the trial court believed that the...
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Third-grader organizes gay marriage rally at Colorado Capital [video]
”I believe I am doing the right thing. It will help lots and lots of people…. I hope this rally will make an impact and...
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Michael Steele: Small businesses can’t treat gay spouses equally; It costs too much
“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as...
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Moscow police forcibly arrests gay rights seekers [video]
”Today, they are not only fighting for lesbian and gay freedom here in Russia. They are also fighting for the soul of Russian democracy…. If...
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Uruguay lifting military ban on gays. Why hasn’t Obama done it here? [video]
From Huffington Post: ”The defense ministry confirms that Minister Jose Bayardi has signed a decree lifting the ban imposed by the 1973-85 military dictatorship. The...
