News + Politics
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Grooming Pink Elephants
How the GOP can cultivate a winning coalition by including LGBT voters
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In Search of a Speaker
"Palace intrigue" during leadership vacuum in wake of John Boehner's retirement exposes rifts among GOP caucus
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Westboro Baptist Church pickets Kim Davis
For the LGBT community, it was likely the battle of the most reviled. On Monday, the Westboro Baptist Church arrived in Rowan County, Kentucky, to...
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Kenyan president says his country won’t allow gay “witch hunts”
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said that his country won’t allow gays to be persecuted by vigilantes, even as he dismissed the idea of legalizing LGBT...
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Model legislation introduced for banning conversion therapy
Whether you call it cookie-cutter politics or a paint-by-numbers approach to legislating, proponents of ending sexual orientation change efforts are offering up model legislation aimed...
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Germantown man arrested in slaying of transgender woman
The man accused of shooting a transgender woman multiple times in a service alley behind the Montgomery Village shopping center in Gaithersburg has been held...
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Hillary Clinton: Most people my age had to evolve on marriage equality
Hillary Clinton thanks "personal relationships" for helping her evolve on the issue
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Houston Texans owner drops $10K to defeat HERO ordinance
Opponents of LGBT rights are having everything seemingly go their way in the closing weeks of their campaign to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance...
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Hate group urges Fairfax voters to oust all Democrats from school board
The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), which has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group for its long record of anti-LGBT...
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Transgender woman shot in head in Gaithersburg
Witnesses told reporters that the shooting sprang from an altercation between the victim and the shooter
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Obama administration report calls for end to conversion therapy
Conversion therapy — also known as “ex-gay” therapy — is not an appropriate therapeutic approach to treating youth who experience feelings of same-sex attraction or...
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Gay Virginia man launches discrimination complaint against Catholic diocese after firing
Claim filed with EEOC alleges termination from Catholic-owned facility in Richmond violates Title VII
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Rand Paul advises LGBT people to stay in the closet
Rand Paul argues no employment protections needed because "plenty of places" will hire gay people
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HIV Heroes Walk to Better Health
Danny Pintauro to be honored at Whitman-Walker Health's 29th annual Walk to End HIV in DC
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Debatable Success: Clinton versus Sanders at the first debate
CNN’s Democratic debate was the perfect antithesis to the circus antics of the prior two GOP affairs
