News + Politics
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Strange Fruit
The recent suicides by hanging of two 11-year-old boys in response to anti-gay bullying -- Carl Walker-Hoover in Massachusetts on April 6 and Jaheem Herrera...
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Gay and Gone
It would be hard to argue that Clark Ray, the highest-ranking openly gay member of Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration and its only department head, was...
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No gays in Star Wars?
”As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars. Thread closed.” SeanDahlberg, a Community Manager for the Bioware gaming...
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Marion Barry: I’m a moral politician… No gay marriage in DC! [video]
(Metro Weekly has published a more detailed update to this event. — 4/29/09 2:10am) ”You are the moral leaders of this community. Politicians out to...
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Rallying Against Equality
''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...
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CraigList murder suspect may have also met gay or transsexual dates for sex [video]
”He seemed like a great guy; he’s very cute. I was really taken by his looks.” An anonymous Boston male and apparent transsexual speaking on...
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Iowa begins legal marriages of lesbian and gay male couples
”By the power vested in the state of Iowa and God, I now declare you legally married…. What an honor. Amen!” Peg Esperanza, pastor of...
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Bishop Harry Jackson: All of black DC is against gay marriage
”It’s a race and a class struggle on this. If 51 percent of the people in D.C. are African-American and you have a unanimous vote...
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Perez Hilton: I’m an activist. Read me! [video]
””And I don’t care if you don’t like me — I just care if you still read my Web site…. I said she was a...
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Another 11-year-old boy hangs himself after bullying with gay taunts
”She said, ‘Ma, did you know they called Jaheem gay again today in school?’ …. He said, ‘Yes ma’am. He told me that he’s tired...
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Connecticut passes gay marriage legislation; Governor signs it into law
”We wanted to make it completely clear that the state of Connecticut fully embraces not only the rights of same-sex couples to marry, but we...
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Maine tackles same-sex marriage as public has it’s say
”I remember that 40 years ago, Even people in Maine told us it was wrong to get married: ‘Blacks and whites should never marry.’ People...
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Robert Wone murder mystery: BlackBerry evidence mishandled
””If the decedent was sending email messages at 11:05 p.m. and 11:07 p.m., then obviously he wasn’t dead. That would be critical to the government’s...
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Countering Marriage Equality
A newly formed coalition uniting Hope Christian Church and the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), based in Beltsville and College Park, respectively; the national, D.C.-group,...
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Hugh Jackman: Unhappy with telling America he’s not gay
”I’d be happy to go and deny it, because I’m not. But by denying it, I’m saying there is something shameful about it, and there...
