News + Politics
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Obama says let’s make nice-nice; Gays vent and organize [video]
”I think that it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It is something that I...
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Obama Infuriates Gays: Chooses extremely anti-gay preacher Rick Warren for inauguration prayer [video]
”This not a policy difference. This not even about gay marriage. That can be a political or policy difference that, obviously, Barack Obama has with...
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Focus on Frustration
Wes Della Volla wants to know why the man who was arrested on Oct. 1 for allegedly threatening to run over him and his boyfriend...
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Marriage or Mirage?
On Dec. 11, at a candid community discussion on the pursuit of D.C. marriage equality, a few participants noted that D.C. domestic partners already enjoy...
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GLOV Presses Fenty
The newly re-formed GLOV -- Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence -- on Dec. 17 sent a letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty asking that he take...
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Logan/Shaw Murder
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department is requesting the public's help in gathering information about the murder of a 35-year-old Portuguese gay man, who was shot...
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Civil Strategy
California voters spoke Nov. 4 when they pulled the plug on marriage equality for gays and lesbians -- won in the California Supreme Court less...
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Prosperity preacher, Joel Osteen, declares Gay ‘is a choice,’ not deserving of marriage [video]
”I’m not for gay marriage. In the Bible — I say that marriage is between a male and a female. Now, I don’t know, I...
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‘Godspell’ composer Schwartz allows Mormon students to use works; but Showbiz LDS feeling the heat over Prop 8 [video]
”I have not withdrawn the use of my songs by the BYU Young Ambassadors and do not intend to do so.They are a student singing...
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Congressman Barney Frank featured on ’60 Minutes’ [video]
”I’m gay. I’m left-handed. I’m Jewish. There’s a lot of things I’m supposed to do, that I don’t do…. ...
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Gay-oriented churches seeing shift in memberships
“There’s less need. You can church-shop and find at a local level a parish that is accepting…. We provide an option. We don’t recruit people...
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Sioux City, IA meets to ban gay marriage, but abuptly quits due to complexity, lawsuits
”You can’t un-ring the bell and once you have a room full people that have come down to speak on a topic, I think it...
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WWC Announces New Cuts
Nearly a year since Whitman-Walker Clinic's January 2008 restructuring announcement, which included staff layoffs of up to 10 percent and the sale of its headquarter...
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Colin Powell says time to look again at military policy that excludes gays
”We definitely should reevaluate it. It’s been 15 years since we put in ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ which was a policy that became a law....
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Maine residents begin battle over gay marriages
“There is clearly a lot of support for us winning marriage in Maine. There’s a lot of momentum, there’s a lot of enthusiasm. We’re really...
