News + Politics
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Chicago cop sued for issuing false DUIs to gays to create need for overtime pay
”This guy was operating in the heart of the gay entertainment district for years acting on his anti-gay animus and no one in an official...
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Iowa Court says yes to gay marriages! [video]
”The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution…. Equal...
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Ultimate Fighting’s president posts online video with anti-gay slur, then apologizes
”I hurt people that I didn’t intend to hurt and when you do something like that, yes, I believe that you should say you’re sorry....
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Sweden latest country to embrace same-sex marriage
”The decision means that gender no longer has an impact on the ability to marry and that the law on registered partnership is repealed.” Statement...
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Married lesbian couple with children to be separated by deportation
”The kids have been crying. It’s sad because they know mommy is leaving…. We already fought our families for our relationship common. Now it’s no...
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Maryland begins to address unfair ‘gay tax’ inheritance issue
”You’re talking about a year of my son’s college education savings down the tubes…. I have no issue paying taxes but if you’re going to...
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VT. gay marriage bill passes House & Senate; Rep. Governor will veto [video]
”The promise of full equality of the marriage statutes that we held out in 2000 by creating civil unions, we believe, has not been fulfilled.”...
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Military officers petition Obama to keep gay-excluding policy
”The signers of this petition are mired in the fears and politics of the past. More than 75 percent of the American public, including most...
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Police Seek Suspect
The Metropolitan Police Department is on the hunt for a suspect believed to have been involved in a ''gay on gay'' robbery near Massachusetts Avenue...
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Wedding Planners
There was no press release, no big speech, no photo for posterity. Instead, it seems the meeting Councilmember David Catania (I-At large) called March 19...
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Be Safe
''Take your hand off of me!'' Farah Fosse yelled as Lauren Taylor's advances made a scene last Wednesday night at BeBar. The confrontation turned the...
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Poison Pews
African-American leaders, students and activists gathered for nearly two hours inside Howard University's Howard Thurman Chapel in Northeast D.C. recently to discuss homophobia in African-American...
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Hoops and Heresy
I have been a bit conflicted lately. On one hand, I've been rooting for my Catholic alma mater, Villanova, in the NCAA men's basketball playoffs....
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Gay male teen sent home from school for wearing female clothing & bra
”It wasn’t anything overdramatic, It’s an expression of yourself, no matter what. To dress out of your own gender shouldn’t be anything…. A lot of...
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Teenage lesbians reprimaded at Oprah’s South African girls school
”You have been found guilty of physical contact of a sexual nature with another pupil on campus, harassment, bullying other girls on campus and of...
