News + Politics
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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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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...
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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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Obama statement of support for California same-sex marriages
”As the Democratic nominee for President, I am proud to join with and support the LGBT community in an effort to set our nation on...
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High school girls beat lesbian classmate, record video on cellphone [video]
”I guess some say she’s pretty outspoken, and the other two girls didn’t like that. We were told by the two suspects it was over...
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Man sues ex-friend over fake gay Facebook profile
”The defendant knew all the information in the profiles, and only a very limited number of people would…. Mr Firsht values his privacy highly. It...
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Former gay DC stripper, Craig Seymour, bares all again [video]
Craig Seymour: All I Could Bare ”Let’s put it this way, every feeling that I ever experienced working as a stripper, I’ve felt the same...
