News + Politics
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Rule banning federal contractors from LGBT discrimination released
A final rule prohibiting federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination was announced Wednesday by the Labor Department. The rule implements Executive Order 13672, signed by...
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Arizona Pastor: If you want to cure AIDS by Christmas, execute gay people
“If you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.” — Steven Anderson, Pastor at Arizona’s Faithful Word Baptist...
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Former Westboro member visits LGBT homeless in Jamaica
“There’s an irony there that I couldn’t ignore: that I share a fate with the very people I was taught to dehumanize so fiercely.” —...
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House Republicans urge Boehner to allow ENDA vote
Six Republican supporters of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act urged House Speaker John Boehner to allow a vote on the LGBT-rights bill as part of a...
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Florida same-sex marriages set to begin next month
Same-sex marriages could begin in Florida as early as next month following an order handed down by a federal appeals court Wednesday. The 11th Circuit...
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Senate confirms Obama EEOC nominees
The U.S. Senate confirmed two Obama nominees to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Wednesday that advocates say will be critical in protecting LGBT Americans from workplace...
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D.C. Bans Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would prohibit the use on minors of conversion or “reparative” therapy, or other “sexual orientation...
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GLOV Guardian Awards
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), the D.C.-area organization dedicated to combating anti-LGBT hate crimes and intimate partner violence, announced on Monday the recipients of...
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Louisiana agrees Supreme Court should hear same-sex marriage case
Attorneys for the state of Louisiana urged the Supreme Court to take up a case challenging the state’s same-sex marriage ban before a federal appeals...
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Candlelight Vigil to Mark World AIDS Day
Whitman-Walker Health will host a candlelight vigil tonight, Monday, Dec. 1, to commemorate World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day, now in its 27th year, remembers...
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Obama marks World AIDS Day
President Barack Obama marked World AIDS Day in a proclamation released by the White House, vowing to continue efforts to combat the disease. “In the face...
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Gambian Minister: We won’t accept “Satanic” gays in return for foreign aid
“ any outside bloc that wants to impose acceptance of homosexuals as a pre-condition for aid that we will never accept...
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Transgender Female Assaulted in Dupont Establishment
Thanksgiving transgender attack could not have happened at Level One/Cobalt, which was closed at the time
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Federal judge rules Mississippi same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
A federal judge found Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional in a ruling handed down Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves ruled Mississippi’s same-sex...
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Federal judge strikes down Arkansas same-sex marriage ban
A federal judge found the ban on same-sex marriages in Arkansas unconstitutional in a ruling handed down Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Kristine Baker ruled Arkansas laws prohibiting...
