News + Politics
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Why California plans to prevent gay inmates from marrying
”We’re still developing our official policies and procedures for complying with the court ruling. We have never permitted inmates to marry other inmates in the...
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Club Kudos
Extending the celebration of the just-ended Democratic National Convention -- and not likely to worry about missing its Republican counterpart, Sept. 1 to 4 --...
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Arrested Development
For the past three-and-a-half years, local transgender activist Earline Budd has volunteered her time on Wednesdays, visiting transgender inmates at the D.C. Department of Corrections'...
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Fighting Back with Love
As curious onlookers passed, in the early evening of Sunday, Aug. 24, a crowd of about 40 people sang as they held hands in a...
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Media Muddle
Some forms of media bias I can appreciate. For example, someone at The Washington Post got carried away in the August 21 issue with color...
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Transgender vets face additional discrimination
”We did our time. What happened to us after we got out doesn’t have anything to do with whether we deserve care. We are aware...
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Barney Frank speaks out on Obama vs. McCain
”If Obama wins and we have a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, we will see legislation that will remove some of the...
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Lesbian kicked out of Federal building due to ‘Lesbian.com’ T-shirt
”As an African-American and a lesbian, I haven’t been through one day without facing some sort of discrimination … but this is just shocking.” Lapriss...
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Ban on gay adoptions & fostering broadened to affect all non-married parents in Arkansas
”Arkansas needs to affirm the importance of married mothers and fathers. We need to publicly affirm the gold standard of rearing children whenever we can....
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Talking street fashion and techniques with transgenders of NYC’s ‘sidewalk runway’
”I would describe it as ‘Take me.’ … My friends say my sense of style is bitch.” — Shawn Rachel, 28 ”Today is classic and...
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Study finds kink seems normal; Gays & lesbians more open to BDSM
”Our findings support the idea that bondage and discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) is simply a sexual interest or subculture attractive to a minority…. People with...
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Obama’s non-support for gay marriage loses donation from gay media owner, Paul Colichman
I thought, ‘Get over yourself!’ I had literally written out a check to the Obama campaign. And then I saw him in...
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Preaching parents transformed by lesbian daughter’s suicide
”We and our entire lives changed as a result of Anna’s death…. After Anna came out, I think I took her spot in the closet.”...
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Some Mormons are gay and they want you to know it
”When I heard and saw the letter that the church leaders had read in sacrament meetings, I was appalled. So I said, ‘That’s it.’ I...
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Gay Austrialian diver, Matt Mitcham, wins gold at Olympics
“It’s going to take a while to sink in. My cheeks hurt from smiling. My face hurts from the chlorine. My legs are sore from...
