News + Politics
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The Next Step
He is the most gifted political figure in two generations. He ran a smart, disciplined and innovative campaign that made the most of his charisma,...
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Indictments in Wone Case
News Channel 8 reported, Nov. 20, that local attorney Joseph Price, his partner Victor Zaborsky, and their roommate, Dylan Ward, have been indicted by a...
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Terry's Turn
PreventionWorks, a 10-year-old, local, nonprofit organization working in HIV-prevention and health advocacy, announced Nov. 13 that Philip Terry will be serve as the group's new...
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New Blood
Equality Maryland has announced that Kate Runyon, of Ann Arbor, Mich., will be taking over as the GLBT-advocacy group's new executive director. The former interim...
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Guilt Confirmed
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department announced Nov. 12 that 19-year-old Virginia resident, Ruddad Abdulgader, originally from Sudan, has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts before...
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Stein Successors
Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a gay organization and among the most influential in District politics, elected the club's 2009 officers at a...
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Lambda Center Cuts
Three and a half years ago, amid a period of fiscal turmoil at the Whitman-Walker Clinic, the alcohol- and drug-treatment efforts of the Lambda Center...
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Both sides ratchet up bad feelings in California over gay marriage repeal [video]
”What we’re doing now is building a movement. There is more excitement and energy than I’ve seen in a long time about people coming together...
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Obama lists GLBT interests in ‘Plan to Strengthen Civil Rights’
The Obama-Biden Plan Combat Employment Discrimination: pass ENDA Expand Hate Crimes Statutes: pass Matthew Shepard Act Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT...
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Near riot as angry Castro residents confront gay-converting Christians [video]
”Bigots out of the Castro! Shame on you! Where’s your Proposition now?” A few of the printable chants and catcalls directed at a group of...
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Transgender author says gays and lesbians both anti-feminine
”The first way is by not buying into masculinist presumptions about femininity. In feminism and in the queer community,...
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Research scientists self-censor gay-related ‘red flags’ to get funding
”Most often, researchers tried to “game” the system by continuing to do their research as before while employing practices specifically designed to disguise the most...
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Wanda Sykes, comedian, comes out gay over Proposition 8, marriage equality [video]
Tuesday, on November 4th — I live in California — so 8:15 was the happiest moment in my life. I was so happy, I was...
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Protest against Proposition 8 in Washington, DC draws several thousand gays & supporters [video]
”Let’s not sit by and just chant. We need to count on each other to write letters to Obama, to write letters to Biden, to...
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Baltimore, Maryland to protest against Proposition 8 [video]
” Mormon Temple is suing the state to abolish all of the marriages that happened before hand. So, it’s...
