News + Politics
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GOP Platform Committee adopts language opposing LGBT rights
The Republican National Committee Platform Committee spent a good portion of Tuesday voting against any language referencing LGBT people and expressing opposition to LGBT rights, including same-sex...
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Gay Men’s Chorus announces new executive director
Justin Fyala will take the reigns on August 15
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Jim Obergefell testifies at congressional hearing on First Amendment Defense Act
Jim Obergefell, the gay man who was at the center of the case challenging Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage, testified before the House Committee on...
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Ohio baker refuses to make a birthday cake for a lesbian customer
—Candice Lowe in an interview with Toledo-area ABC affiliate WTVG/13abc. Lowe visited Take the Cake Bakery in Toledo, Ohio, with a simple request: to order a...
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Pro-transgender ad to premiere during Republican National Convention
TV ad depicts restaurant owner trying to stop transgender customer from using the women's restroom
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Universal Gear closing both D.C. and New York locations
Popular clothing store has been a mainstay of the local LGBT community for over two decades.
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Sharmus Outlaw, transgender HIV and sex worker rights advocate, dies
Internationally-known activist mourned by close friends and co-workers after losing her battle with lymphoma
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Star Trek Beyond has an openly gay Sulu, but George Takei isn’t happy
The film's creators are "twisting" Gene Roddenberry's creation, according to Takei
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Aubrey Plaza: “I fall in love with girls and guys”
Aubrey Plaza opened up about her bisexuality in an interview with The Advocate
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Anti-gay activist: Gay rights an “anti-God movement” and a “sin movement”
Peter LaBarbera believes that gay rights are "a liberal cult"
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NYC gay man tackled, arrested by police on LGBT-friendly beach
Krys Fox: “They shoved my face in the sand in front of hundreds of people, I was humiliated.”
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Creative Process
I hope you enjoy our first-annual coverage of Capital Fringe. And I hope it inspires you to go to one or more of these shows
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Transgender Servicemembers on the End of the Ban
Transgender service members react to the Pentagon's lifting of the ban
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New York State ad campaign tries to steal business away from states with anti-LGBT laws
Trio of ads airing in Texas, Mississippi, and North Carolina touts New York State's pro-LGBT reputation
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Department of Justice: NC’s anti-LGBT law “is state-sanctioned discrimination”
"H.B. 2 is causing irreparable stigmatic, psychological, economic, social, and physical harm to transgender people."
