News + Politics
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Burger Queen
Earlier this month, amid all the hoopla of economic meltdown, I pawed about for some way to empower myself. My meager stock portfolio was down...
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Robbery at Fireplace
Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Acting Lt. Brett Parson reported an unsuccessful robbery attempt occurred Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Fireplace, a gay bar at...
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Healthy Discussion
In mid October, it was once again time for what has become the premiere assembly for discussing the collective health of gay, bisexual and transgender...
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A Warm Gesture
During last year's holiday season, watching Good Morning America collect coats for the homeless, Jeff Buhrman had an idea. ''They were talking about 'One Warm...
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Desperate, anti-gay preachers spread lies about legal effects of same-sex marriage
”The idea that we would be forced as clergy to perform a marriage that was against our conscience, or that a church would lose its...
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Researchers claim gene linked to MTF transsexual development
”We think that these genetic differences might reduce testosterone action and under masculinise the brain during foetal development…. There is a social stigma that transsexualism...
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Purpose-driven Pastor Warren: Gays insignificant, don’t deserve marriage
”There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2% of our population.” Pastor Rick Warren, a mega-church pastor who’s...
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Every vote to count in California same-sex marriage battle
”Maybe people don’t want to talk about it, but it is definitely a major issue. They feel takes away from the image of...
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FBI: Hate crimes against gays see slight increase
”Until we make laws that make it clear these attacks are not OK, the nation will continue to be scarred.” Neil Giuliano of GLAAD responding...
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Guilty Senator Ted Stevens had history of mostly anti-gay votes
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, 84, who was convicted of receiving and not reporting $250,000 in gifts from a disgraced executive in the oil services industry,...
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Lindsay Lohan: Bi, at best
”She has been telling everyone over and over that she’s still into guys. She keeps saying if anything went wrong with Sam she would date...
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George Takei smacks down William Shatner over gay marriage controversy [video]
”We did invite Bill , and we didn’t hear from him…. What’s really important to us right now is this Proposition 8,...
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Apple Computers proudly donates $100,000 to stop anti-gay marriage initiative
”Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies...
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Old Jerry Lewis slips out that word again
”Oh, cricket? It’s a fag game. What are you, nuts?” Entertainer Jerry Lewis, 82, at a press conference in Australia, responding to a question on...
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Last Days of McCain: Supporters go full blast with gay-obsessed fear [video]
”Everyone uses fear in the last part of a campaign, but evangelicals are especially theologically prone to those sorts of arguments. There’s a long tradition...
