News + Politics
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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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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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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...
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Religions joining for mass push against gay marriage in California
”This is a rising up over a 5,000-year-old institution that is being hammered right now. What binds us together is one common obsession: . ....
