News + Politics
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Legal same-sex marriages begin Connecticut [video]
”We decided that we wanted to hold out for the real thing. Parties are fun, but it’s not about the celebrating piece of this. It’s...
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Prop 8 Protest
''This is not a California issue. This is an issue of equality across America,'' states a release regarding planned Nov. 15 protests against California's newly...
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UHU Turns 20
Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc., will soon mark 20 years of working to prevent HIV infections among black gay and bisexual men, and...
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The GLBT Beat
On election night, Nov. 4, Steven Kensinger and Zack Pesavento were just like so many other Washingtonians who poured out onto District streets to celebrate...
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Proposition 8 Challenge
In the wake of Californians voting to pass Proposition 8, a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages that trumps an earlier California Supreme Court ruling that...
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History's Heroes
With the recent election, I was hopeful that Proposition 8 would not pass. A former Floridian, I might've cared more about their similar Proposition 2,...
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Schwarzenegger to gays: Never give up. Like weightlifting, be on it & on it [video]
”It’s not the end. I think this will go back to the courts. This will go back to the Supreme Court ...
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Gays push back: Thousands protest churches in California [video]
”In San Francisco, on Friday night, about 1,000 people gathered in the streets in protest. In Los Angeles, on Saturday, 12,000 people converged in the...
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Mickey Rouke apologizes after using gay slur [video]
”I want to sincerely apologize for the derogatory word I used. It was insensitive and inappropriate of me and I am deeply sorry that I...
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Organizers hope for Prop8 marriage protest in D.C. this Saturday, Nov. 15
”We can’t wait for any large scale organization to get the word out for us. We have 1 week to put together a NATIONAL PROTEST...
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First Out Crossdressing Mayor elected in Oregon town [video]
“I identify mostly as a heterosexual male, but I just happen to like to look like a female…. The first 30 seconds they think, ‘Am...
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Divided & Conquered: As predicted, anti-gay black voters given disproportionate blame for Proposition 8 [video]
”Whites voted very narrowly against the ban, 51-49 percent. Asian-Americans voted the same. Hispanics voted for it, by 53-47 percent. Blacks voted for it, overwhelmingly,...
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Police shoot gay man in Logan Circle condo building [video]
””I heard put the knife down, put the knife down, David, and then I heard gunshots.” Harry Boyd, the building manager of a Logan Circle...
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Two gay DC men attacked by Republican loser [video]
“When I tried to grab it away from him, he started hitting me, trying to attack me. He was very aggressive and very threatening and...
