News + Politics
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The special needs of older gays: AARP to sponsor conference on aging and GLBT senior citizens
”There are very particular areas that make us a more vulnerable constituency of old people. We tend to age alone, with no one to call...
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Joe Biden drops out of HRC National Dinner due to serious family illness
”The campaign has cancelled Sen. Biden’s schedule today and tomorrow because of a serious illness in Jill Biden’s family. Hospice has advised the Bidens to...
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Palin’s Latest Flip-Flop: Would use Constitutional amendement to block same-sex benefits
Newsweek has found in their own archives an interview where Sarah Palin of 2007 seems to be at odds with Sarah Palin in last week’s...
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Right-wing news targeting Barney Frank and ‘gay boyfriend’ for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, bank meltdown [video]
”It’s absolutely a conflict. He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that...
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Uganda wants police to hunt for gays, lesbians for prosecution
”The state of moral health in our nation is challenging and we are concerned about the mushrooming of lesbianism and homosexuality. Ten years ago, this...
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Sarah Palin ‘tolerant’ of gays ‘choosing’ partners; Joe Biden claims Constitutional guarantee for same-sex benefits
Debate Moderator Gwen Ifil: Do you support, as they do in Alaska, granting same-sex benefits to couples? Sen Joe Biden: Absolutely. Do I support granting...
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Christians attack Fairfax County school librarians for ‘censoring’ their ex-gay book donations
”Donations should not be at the expense of minority populations or make the reader feel inferior…. These books were not research based. There were not...
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Dan Savage interviews a gay friend of Sarah Palin
”One of the reasons I’m strongly for Palin is because the Democrats in Alaska are assholes. And half of the stuff that the media has...
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Log Cabin defends Sarah Palin’s use of ‘choice’ to describe gay friend’s orientation
”Gov. Palin didn’t ramble uncomfortably about a ‘lifestyle’ or use the opportunity to reiterate her opposition to marriage for gay couples. She didn’t use the...
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Fake ‘liberal Democrat’ exposed: Funded by millions from conservatives against gay marriage
”I’m a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together…. Every child being raised...
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Fundamentally Flawed
Here comes autumn. With it come two holidays that remind me of a large part of our American heritage, for better and worse: Thanksgiving, celebrating...
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Honor Roll
DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, an organization that tackles a variety of issues in solving problems that affect D.C. residents and employees, last...
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HIV and Aging
Getting older does not make you any less susceptible to HIV and AIDS. ''For both gay and heterosexual people, there's the disbelief that somehow if...
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Fund Run
Marking its 22nd year, it's once again time for Whitman-Walker Clinic's AIDS Walk Washington. Few could've imagined 22 years ago that the need to raise...
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Call To Action
The Metropolitan Community Church of Washington held a full house on Sunday, Sept. 28, for a ''speak out'' and memorial event for a Tony Randolph...
