News + Politics
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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...
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Queer Experiments: August edition
”Evidence indicates that, aside from sexual partner preference, the mating psychology of homosexual men is sex-typical whereas that of homosexual women tends to be more...
