News + Politics
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Nipper Nabs National Job
Darlene Nipper, head of Mayor Anthony Williams' Office of LGBT Affairs from 2005 to 2007, returns to a leadership role beginning Oct. 1 with the...
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New Day
The National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA), based in Silver Spring, launched the National HIV Testing Day more than 15 years ago. Now it...
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Muffins for Minors
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League's (SMYAL) 11th Annual Fall Brunch, the organization's main fundraiser, is scheduled to kick off with a silent auction at...
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Anti-Crime Encore
A recently launched, grassroots effort to respond to violent attacks against members of the GLBT community made notable progress Monday evening, Sept. 22. Two weeks...
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Honoring Hunter
On Sunday, Sept. 28, local GLBT community activists, as well as family and friends of Tony Randolph Hunter, will gather where he was brutally beaten...
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Stay and Fight
When the stakes in an election are high and our chances of victory are quite good, we can become so invested in winning that we...
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DC Clinic finds shocking increase in HIV; City Admin points at committed couples avoiding condoms
”. In the same period this year, we’ve seen 266 new HIV cases....
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Clay Aiken is gay! Who knew?
”New Dad Clay Aiken: Yes I’m Gay. The ‘Idol’ star opens up about his emotional decision to come out: ‘I cannot raise a child to...
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Legendary gay nightclubs, G-A-Y and Heaven, combine in London
”Despite much speculation about the future of Heaven, it is my priority to make sure not only will Heaven be the new home for G-A-Y,...
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N’Sync singer Lance Bass debuts on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ [video]
”I think it’s so important for me to do this,” he says. “But my biggest concern is I just hope it doesn’t hurt the gay...
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Television shows to include most GLBT characters ever — doubles to 2.6%
”This dramatic increase shows how far many networks have come in developing complex, multilayered lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender characters.” Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD,...
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Bloggers bristle at indications that John McCain’s top staffer is gay
Over the past month I’ve been contacted by three different individuals (two of them members of the Log Cabin Republicans) claiming that McCain’s Senate chief...
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Steven Spielberg, Kate Capshaw donate $100K to keep gay marriages
”By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless...
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Socially-conservative black and Latino voters may show up for Obama, but vote against gay marriage
”There’s no question African-American and Latino voters are among our strongest supporters. And to the extent that they are motivated to get to the polls,...
