News + Politics
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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,...
-
Prouder than Bombs
Here it is, some 60 years since the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and the bombs are still falling. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel and...
-
Lobby Days Loom
Equal rights organizations in Maryland and Virginia both bid farewell to their longtime leaders last year, making way for two new leaders to head the...
-
Quarter-Century Contest
Most reunions are bittersweet affairs, occasions to strengthen and celebrate bonds, and to reminisce and remember those absent. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, running Jan. 16 to...
-
Gay bishop, Gene Robinson, invited to speak Sunday at Obama’s Inauguration kickoff [video]
”I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of...
