News + Politics
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Correction
The March 29, 2007, story ''The Beat Goes On,'' incorrectly referred to Richard Rosendall's statement as ''an open letter.'' The statement was oral testimony on...
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Departing Mautner
After nearly eight years heading the nation's largest lesbian health organization, Kathleen DeBold announced her resignation from the Mautner Project just four months after going...
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Campus Pride
You needn't enroll in a class at Northern Virginia's George Mason University to learn about the various activists, popular artists, scientists and authors who have...
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Screening for Staff
It's not always easy to see the problems other people face. For gays and lesbians who were born in the United States, for example, it...
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Rolling Along
Hundreds of families are expected to gather on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, April 9, for the annual Easter Egg Roll,...
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Defeated Bill
The House Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 against Del. Don Dwyer's (R-Anne Arundel) proposed amendment that would ban marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state...
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Athletic Support
Greg Campbell was attending a gay-straight alliance meeting at Wakefield High School in Arlington, where he teaches math and coaches swimming, when he came to...
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Tackling Tomorrow's Taxes
With the deadline for individual income-tax returns little more than two weeks away, storefronts are teeming with signs and banners touting ''instant'' tax refunds, some...
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The Beat Goes On
Despite some recent reports, Lieutenant Alberto Jova, the gay assistant to Washington's interim Police Chief Cathy Lanier, says the chief has no intentions of removing...
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Positive Changes at Whitman-Walker Clinic
Officials at Whitman-Walker Clinic announced on Monday, March 20, the addition of three physicians, who will join the staff at the clinic in the coming...
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PEPCO adopts equal benefits for domestic partners
Councilmember Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) applauded the Potomac Electric Power Company's parent company Pepco Holdings Inc.,...
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Revealing struggles
Dilcia Molina is not a criminal. Yet in Honduras, where she was born and raised, the 42-year-old lesbian and mother of two says she was...
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Campus Crusade
Across America, at various institutions of higher learning, some policies may seem less than enlightened. From Gordon College in Wenham, Mass., to Baylor University in...
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The Birds vs. the Bees
Parents representing Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC) generated buzz last week by protesting against Montgomery County's sex-ed pilot program with signs that read ''Health...
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Flamingo Road
You don't have to freeze your fanny out in the cold in order to smoke a cigarette at Freddie's Beach Bar & Restaurant. Jennifer Michie,...
