News + Politics
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Inauguration Celebration
A coalition of GLBT-advocacy organizations, including the nation's largest, the Human Rights Campaign, have announced plans to celebrate Inauguration Day 2009 with a party, ''Out...
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Lending an Ear
In the District, people talk about HIV/AIDS -- a lot. Of course, with a statistical profile that puts D.C. on par with sub-Saharan Africa when...
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Like a Glove
At a recent forum to discuss HIV/AIDS and young, gay men -- or men who have sex with men, to be perfectly accurate -- the...
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Wednesday call for ‘Day Without a Gay’ gets mixed reaction
”We’ve reacted to anti-gay ballot initiatives in California, Arizona Florida, and Arkansas with anger, with resolve, and with courage. NOW, it’s time to show America...
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Christian conservatives flustered by Newsweek cover article pointing to Biblical support of gay marriage
”Religious conservatives will say that the liberal media are once again seeking to impose their values (or their ‘agenda,’ a favorite term to describe the...
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Ecuadorian immigrant ‘gay bashed’ by Brooklyn gang for holding onto own brother’s arm
We believe all of this happened simply because of who these individuals are and who these perpetrators perceived them to be. For some reason (they)...
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Students protest University of Washington paper for allowing comparison of gay marriage to sex with sheep
”There is a bigger issue here than the paper allowing fear and hatred to be spread by a double standard. We felt like the image...
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Proposition 8: The Musical (with Jack Black as Jesus) [video]
”It was like, `Eureka! That’s right, that’s what I do! If I’m going to stand on the soap box, at least let me sing and...
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Mid-Atlantic Inauguration
Next month's Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend -- including the 25th annual Mr. MAL Contest -- is guaranteed to be the wildest in recent memory, occurring just...
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Southeast Stabbing
A Dec. 4 altercation -- including homophobic epithets -- that left one man hospitalized with knife wounds, may have been a hate crime, according to...
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Leading Authority
If you freeze-frame the Milk movie trailer on YouTube, you can see the ''1051'' atop the streetcar used in a scene portraying an angry demonstration....
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Northern Va. Nods
In keeping with holiday-season traditions, the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance (AGLA) is honoring one individual and one group at the group's annual holiday party,...
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Wone Widow Files Suit
Kathy Wone has spoken publicly only once since her husband, Robert Wone, was murdered in the Dupont Circle-area townhouse of Joseph Price, his partner Victor...
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Gay Leaders Land in D.C.
There are about 450 openly GLBT elected officials in the United States, says Denis Dison, vice president for external affairs at the Gay and Lesbian...
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Same-sex marriage battle to head to Iowa court
”All we’re talking about is government-issued marriage licenses. There comes a point when you can’t tell people to hold off on getting married any longer....
