News + Politics
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Attacker Sentenced
Judge Harold L. Cushenberry Jr. on Feb. 6 sentenced Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, to 30 months incarceration for participating in a bias-related hate crime...
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Friend says Mayor Adams had sex with Breedlove at age 17
”I just didn’t think too much of it at the time,” he said. “It’s not the first guy who he had sex with that was...
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Kelly Clarkson quashes girl crushes, but glad you’re gay
”I get that all the time. People are like, ‘Are you secretly a lesbian? Because I’d really love it.’ Lesbians tell it to me all...
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Landmark gay bookstore closing: Oscar Wilde Bookshop of NYC
”People are hemorrhaging, and we’re no exception…. Even if we were rent-free, it wouldn’t be enough for us to cover the bills we have…. This...
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Helping Hands
Raising money for Brother Help Thyself's 2009 grant recipients was far from easy. Actually, says JoAnn Kokindo, ''it was horrible.'' Kokindo, president of the community-based...
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After the Fallout
Ask Barbara Chinn and Dr. Patricia Hawkins if they would consider working again for Whitman-Walker Clinic (www.wwc.org), where they were employed for more than two...
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Unholy Warriors
Before Colorado Springs megachurch pastor Ted Haggard was ruined in 2006 by revelations of his involvement with a male hustler, he was interviewed for Oren...
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Washington Blade Parent in Receivership
The investment fund that owns the Washington Blade, the Southern Voice, Genre magazine and other gay publications has been forced into receivership by the federal...
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Proposition 8 to go before California Supreme Court on March 5
According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments against Proposition 8, the voter-approved initiative that banned gay marriage...
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First legally married lesbians in U.S. have filed for divorce
I wish I could talk them into staying together, but I don’t see how. They had a great thing going. I love Julie, and I...
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Lesbian tells of anti-gay taunts by young men on DC Metro system
”It makes me very frightened because homophobia — like racism, like sexism — it’s grounded in irrationalism. To think that we are in the 21st...
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Michael Steel appeals to gay Republicans
“I think that’s an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Because within our party, we do have those who have that view, as well as outside....
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Religious high school has right to expel lesbian girls, rules California court
”The whole purpose of sending one’s child to a religious school is to ensure that he or she learns even secular subjects within a religious...
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Crazy Ted Haggard and in-denial wife do worst example ever of explaining sexuality and gay desires [video]
”Now that we’ve processed this through, my current counselor says you’re a heterosexual with complications. And — and so I don’t think the boxes work...
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Prop 8 anti-gay marriage contributors denied request to hide their names
”If there ever needs to be sunshine on a political issue, it is with a ballot measure.” US District Judge Morrison England, Jr, in his...
