News + Politics
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Snowden Jumps into At-Large Race
Courtney Snowden, the former president of DC Black Pride and a local political and LGBT rights activist, announced Monday she plans to enter the race...
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Maryland Man Sentenced in Bias-Related Attack
A Maryland man who pleaded guilty in March to hitting a transgender woman multiple times with a handgun during an altercation in Northeast Washington was...
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Chicago Mayor names June 20th ‘Parents Equality Day’
"No parent, regardless of who they love, should ever be treated as second class citizens in a society that was founded on the fundamental principal...
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Obama calls for continued pressure on Congress to pass ENDA
President urges passage at an LGBT gala in New York
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Senate confirms two gay black judicial nominees to federal bench
Includes the first out black man in the nation’s history to serve as a federal judge
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Lanier Hosts Town Hall Meeting
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier, several department heads within MPD, government leaders and community activists from within the LGBT community came together on Tuesday,...
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Obama’s move to extend LGBT workplace protections lauded by advocates
LGBT-rights advocates greeted the White House’s Monday announcement that President Barack Obama will prohibit federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination with universal praise, describing the...
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Obama to sign LGBT nondiscrimination executive order
President Barack Obama will take executive action to prohibit federal contractors from LGBT workplace discrimination. According to a White House official, Obama has directed his...
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Federal judge places Wisconsin same-sex marriages on hold
A week after striking down Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage, leading some counties to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a federal judge has...
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Ban on transition-related care lifted for federal health care plans
Ban on transition-related care lifted for federal health care plans
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Pastor: Parents of gay children should “turn them over to satan”
“You isolate them, you don’t have a meal with them. You separate yourself from them. You turn them over to Satan.” — Grace Community Church’s Pastor,...
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Ellen Page to Gov. Rick Perry: “Are you for real?”
— Ellen Page‘s reaction to Governor Rick Perry, who, while addressing the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco Wednesday, compared homosexuality to alcoholism. “I may have the genetic...
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Bipartisan support for ENDA grows in the House
The number of House Democrats who are not cosponsors of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act dropped to eight Thursday as Rep. Jim Costa became the latest member...
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Wilson Greets Westboro with Show of Strength
D.C. high school holds student-organized counter-protest to show support for LGBT community
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President of the UN General Assembly: I am not homophobic
Sam Kutesa, Uganda’s Foreign Minister, has hit back at claims of homophobia following his election as President of the United Nations General Assembly. His appointment...
