News + Politics
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Attorney General Mukasey greets GLBT group DOJ Pride
“It’s a theme I embrace. Because all Justice Department employees have the right to be proud of who they are and the work that they...
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Straight couples married alongside gay day excitement
”We feel like the minority, which is rare… We thought we’d be the only heterosexual couple, but we heard there have been others.” Reed Bennett-Eisen...
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Man protesting DOMA, IRS is facing prison for not paying taxes
”Marriage between ‘gender neutral’ couples is legal in California, but our union is not recognized by the Federal Government and we don’t get the over...
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Study finds female relatives of gay men make more babies
”I think this is an example where the results of scientific research can have important social implications…. You have all this antagonism against homosexuality because...
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Ebbin Joins SLDN
Del. Adam Ebbin of the Virginia General Assembly, the Alexandria Democrat who has the distinction of being the first -- and only -- openly gay...
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Grand Central Fire
Steve Ladlow was walking outside of the four- and five-story neighboring buildings that house Grand Central, the gay nightclub he manages in Baltimore, when he...
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Discrimination Wins One
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Robert A. Greenberg ruled Wednesday, June 11, that Equality Maryland and Lambda Legal missed the Maryland Board of Election's deadline...
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Clinic Currency
The Whitman-Walker Clinic on Tuesday, June 17, announced that the organization's 1407 S St. NW administrative building has been sold to JBG Companies for $8...
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Prison Guideline Grudge
Jeri Hughes, a member of D.C. Trans Coalition, on June 12 fired the latest shot in an ongoing melee between the D.C. Department of Corrections...
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Wayne Remembered
On the eve of the Capital Pride weekend Wayne M. Nesbitt headed out for festive Friday night with friends at the D.C. Eagle. The venue...
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Spinning its Wheels
Capital Pride Parade co-chairs Steven Walker and Eric Reader had watched every float and contingent kick off from the parade's starting point at 23rd and...
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Cross-Border Skirmishes
Let's say you and your partner live in D.C. and are thinking of trading in your domestic partnership for a California wedding. Your heart says:...
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Gay leaders leaving behind transgenders
”Sexuality is a tricky question…. You get into transgender—it embraces all of that—and you have people’s fear and dislike of things that are different. Nobody...
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9th Graders are so gay
”I came out to my parents, and they were OK…. Nobody stopped being my friend. Sometimes, when I’m around something, like ‘That’s so gay,’ will...
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Killer of transgender claims 3rd bullet was an accident
“ was in the wrong place at the wrong time…. He became a victim of that defendant’s machismo and utter disregard for...
