News + Politics
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$10,000 fine + prison for Wisconsin’s same-sex couples married in California?
”If we would go to California and come back here, what are the chances we might be prosecuted?…. Neither of us could afford the legal...
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Supersized boycott by conservative Christian activist group
”American Family Association (AFA) is boycotting McDonald’s restaurants because of the company’s promotion of the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage. AFA asked McDonald’s to remain...
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Rubyfruit Bar and Grill owner laments imminent closing
“I feel it’s bittersweet. It’s sad to see it go because it was so important, so necessary at one time. Yet if we’re liberated now...
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Gay Police Officer Settles Lawsuit
“They really relentlessly harassed and ridiculed him. They made his life miserable and he couldn’t tolerate it anymore.” — James Trout, speaking about his client,...
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M2F Transgender killed in Memphis [video]
”Transgendered individual are often the victims of crime mainly because we know that people are homophobic or transphobic.” Jonathan Cole of Tennessee Equality Project remarking...
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DC gay activists push for legalization of prostitution [video]
”A lot of people would stop getting sick from going out on a fling, hiring a prostitute and getting God knows what STD from it.”...
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Murdered member of DC’s Metropolitan Community Church laid to rest [video]
“We were devastated. In disbelief. We still can’t believe it. We’re just in shock…. She was a very highly motivated, very energetic individual. You know,...
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When a Penis is Considered a Birth Defect
“She had a birth defect, and we call it that. I can’t think of a worse birth defect, as a woman, than to have a...
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Phill Wilson addresses ongoing AIDS crisis
“When you see a 15 percent yearly increase, that is an epidemic that is out of control. And yet we don’t see a response that...
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Michele Obama speaks at DNC GLBT Fundraiser
“We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect...
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The Ick Factor
Some gay folks just wish that my colleagues and I in the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance would shut up about sex. It's not that...
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An End to Chaos
Club Chaos has officially closed for good. Owner Carlos Aguilar confirmed the fact while exiting a ''show cause'' hearing with D.C.'s Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC)...
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From Acting to Actual
When Matt Foreman announced his resignation in January from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, an organization that promotes civil rights for GLBT people...
