News + Politics
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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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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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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...
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Civics Lesson
What's your trick for getting out of jury duty? I'd be very surprised if you don't have at least one simple method to suggest. Last...
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Montgomery County's Trans Ally
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and residents of Montgomery County have joined forces with Equality Maryland, the state's GLBT equal-rights advocacy group, in...
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Meth Movie
Tweakers, a movie born of collaboration by two members of the West Hollywood Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, Jimmy Palmieri and Sue Sexton, hoping to...
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Post Power
Even though the Power of Us National Convention attracted fewer patrons than organizers of the event had originally hoped for during its three-day run, April...
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Jody's Family Affair
This is a poignant time of year for Jody M. Huckaby, who in March marked three years as the executive director of Parents, Families &...
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Tattered Vestments
Santa Maria Maggiore is unique among the Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome in that it retains its original structure, though it has been enhanced over the...
