News + Politics
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Hip-Hop Stars’ hidden gay lives brought attention by MTV Executive’s book
“Everyone knows. It is not a secret in that sense. It is just that people do not talk about what goes on in private and...
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Nepal gets first gay politician
“Representing a sexual minority, I will make sure the new constitution protects sexual groups, people with disabilities, small indigenous casts and others.” — Sunil Babu...
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Residents of Lesbos want to ban GLBT use of ‘Lesbian’
“To use this word and to get it imposed internationally constitutes a rape of our historic identity and our human rights.” –Charges from a legal...
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British star urges Hollywood gays to come out
“In this so-called liberal industry, no one has the guts to come out because of the box office, but someone has to be first in...
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Filipino Cardinal upset by gay men’s festival participation
“I am not angry at gay men. But, I am against what they’re actually doing.”— Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, head of Manila’s Roman Catholic Church, on...
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Kudos on the Red Carpet
About 200 people attended One in Ten's Fifth Annual Gala, ''Walk the Red Carpet,'' at the Woman's National Democratic Club on Saturday, May 3. The...
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State of Hate
D.C. City Council Chairman Vincent Gray wants to condemn hate. Vincent Gray On Monday, May 5, Gray announced a resolution condemning hate that he planned...
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Gay Cop Conclave Hits D.C.
In 2005, Brett Parson, then a sergeant with Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, headed down to Key West to catch the end of a national conference...
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Summer Playground
Iconic lesbian tennis champ Billie Jean King served the first ball for a new match in an unlikely location -- downtown D.C., on the site...
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Pansy Division
Hanging around my father's auto-body shop during my summer vacations wasn't exactly the same as hanging out with longshoremen or sailors, but I still learned...
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Free the Sex Trade
The recent suicide of D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who faced a prison sentence for doing something that harmed no one, raises a question unrelated...
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Sex Worker Survey
Local transgenders, Latinos, youths and sex workers have all been victims of several human-rights violations at the hands of police, claims a recent study conducted...
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McGreevey and Matos: TMI
“Plaintiff will testify at trial that he needed to have a disrobed male present in the room with them when the parties had sexual relations...
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You’re the only one for me
“There’s an emerging rhetoric around monogamy among young gay couples. In that way, they’re a lot more like married heterosexual couples than they are like...
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The principal is not your pal
“I really feel that my personal privacy was invaded. I mean, Principal Beasley called my mother and outed me to my mother!” — Memphis high...
