News + Politics
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Washington state looking to accept ‘everything but marriage’ bill for same-sex couples
“I would say the most remarkable thing about this bill is that it is unremarkable. Instead of the cultural wars that we have seen year...
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First openly-gay world leader appointed in Iceland
”She is a senior parliamentarian, she is respected and loved by all of Iceland.” Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir, a fellow Alliance party member to Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66,...
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Straights to Hell
The Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend has come and gone, and hats off to the Centaur MC organizers for once again doing their part to actually express...
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Catania Calls Out Clinic
Whitman-Walker Clinic's management was under attack Wednesday, Jan. 28, as D.C. City Councilmember David Catania (I-At large) and others spent hours questioning the clinic's executive...
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The Waiting Game
If you're confused about what has changed in D.C. jails since Virginia Soto, a woman who was wrongfully placed in a male facility for two...
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Welcome to Washington
Through all the barriers to immigration, all the legal wrangling that comes with manmade international borders, one institution has seemed superior: marriage. Even at the...
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Preacher Ted Haggard overload: New teen sex scandal, Talk shows interviews, new documentary
”It wasn’t at all a settlement to make him be quiet or not tell his story. Our desire was to help him. Here was a...
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Teen lover of gay Mayor Adams tells his side of sex scandal [video]
“I do not see any relationship that I ever had with Sam as me being taken advantage of. I do not feel like I was...
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New York’s new Senator Gillibrand questioned over weak gay record
”Gillibrand’s positions may have evolved. She may yet be a defender of LGBT rights, but what’s she’s saying today doesn’t square with her voting record....
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Tyra Banks show interviews Gay-for-Pay male porn actors & bartenders [video]
”Porn is porn…. I say I’m straight, and I really am. I’m married, 3 kids…. I don’t really get aroused for anybody but my, but,...
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Married gay couple seeks first same-sex divorce in Texas
”My clients want to move on with their lives, but they’ve got to do it so there’s no financial or political burden left on them...
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Reorganizers against Proposition 8 regret relying on experts
”The biggest mistake is we turned everything over to professional consultants, and we would never do that again. We should have been in the strategy...
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Corrections
In the Jan. 15 issue of Metro Weekly, Leo Frank was misidentified as Leo Fox in the Stonewall Baby commentary, ''Prouder Than Bombs,'' by Will...
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Executive Engagement
First came the call inviting the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington to participate in ''We Are One,'' the opening ceremony of President Obama's days-long Inauguration...
