News + Politics
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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...
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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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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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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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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....
