News + Politics
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Meeting with the Mayor
Last year was not a good year. Two reported homicides and several violent attacks against GLBT people in the District galvanized the community, leading several...
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Small Things, Big Moment
Greetings from the past: I am writing two days before the formal start of a new political era, for publication two days after. In the...
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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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Gay mayor of Portland admits he lied about sex with 18-yr-old intern; apologizes [video]
”As one of the leaders of the gay community, I want to apologize to the gay community for embarrassing them. I should have been truthful...
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Official Whitehouse website now includes Obama’s gay-supportive agenda
Support for the LGBT Community Expand Hate Crimes Statutes: In 2004, crimes against LGBT Americans constituted the third-highest category of hate crime reported and… Fight...
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President Obama greets gay and lesbian marching band at Inauguration Parade [video]
”The Lesbian and Gay Band Association. They are a national music organization who has concert and marching bands from cities across America, that makes up...
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Gay Bishop, Gene Robinson, not aired on TV: HBO blames Inaugural committee [video]
”The Producer of the Concert has said that the Presidential Inaugural Committee made the decision to keep the Invocation as part of the pre-show.” A...
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Google supports gay marriage again by filing amicus brief against Proposition 8
”n the wake of the election many were concerned with the impact Proposition 8 could have on the personal lives of people they work with...
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Rick Warren swipes at gay bishop, then flip-flops with praise for Rev. Robinson’s inclusion
… already considered me an adversary after partnering on projects with Kolini, Orumbi, and Nzimbi, and writing the TIME bio on...
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Boy George going to prison for abusing male escort [video]
”This offence is so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment can be justified for it.” Judge David Radford during the sentencing hearing of...
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Fenty, Lanier Meet with GLOV
Chris Farris and Todd Metrokin, co-chairs of the newly re-formed Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), met with D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Metropolitan Police...
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No Wone Murder Charge
Following a status hearing regarding the Robert Wone murder case, U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner confirmed on Friday, Jan. 16, that the U.S. does not plan...
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Oprah stunned: ‘Gay is a gift from God.’ [video]
”Well, you’re the first minister, I ever heard say being gay was a gift from God, I can tell you that.” Oprah Winfrey looking rather...
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Obama supported same-sex marriage in 1996
”I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” From a 1996 survey submitted by Barack Obama to Outlines, a gay...
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Obama representative promises they’ll get rid of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
”You don’t hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it’s ‘Yes.”’ Obama administration spokesperson Robert Gibbs responding to a question from Thaddeus of Lansing,...
