News + Politics
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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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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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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...
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Jada Pinkett Smith: We’re not gay
”I definitely understand and respect people’s curiosity, you know. But people, they have to trust me and when I speak on my truth, that’s really...
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Isis King tells Tyra about her sex change, gets engaged [video]
”Although there was swelling and bruising and everything, I automatically felt more comfortable ready to just walk around the house with my little shorts, and...
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Andy Hallet, Angel’s ambiguously flirty singing demon, dies
From E! Online about actor Andy Hallet who played a friendly, green, singing demon in the TV series Angel: ”Andy Hallett, who starred as Lorne...
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Nish-Nish! Gay comedy ‘Bruno’ gets an NC-17 rating
From TheWrap.com about Sacha Baron Cohen‘s comedy/documentary ”Bruno” which features the cross-the-line behavior of the Cohen’s title character, a swishy gay fashion reporter from Austria,...
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Gay bar makeovers to appeal to straight dollars?
”Oh. My. God. Before is all like gay, gay, gay. Now would you believe? Our audience is all straight people. Couples!” Isanoel Pinson, who performs...
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Is it ‘gay’ to have sex with a talking oven? [video]
“Put it in me, Scott.” A talking toaster oven asking a Quiznos employee, Scott, in the sandwich company’s latest TV ad. Gay bloggers are not...
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Tyra Banks, Suze Orman, Donahue speak to gay audience at GLAAD Awards show
“I want every single one of you in this room to take note of what corporations put their time and money behind gays, behind lesbians...
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Defense Sec. Robert Gates: Anti-gay military policy continues as law, progress will have to wait [video]
”Well, it continues to be the law. And any change in the policy would require a change in the law. We will follow the law,...
