News + Politics
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Updated Pentagon ‘Human Goals Charter’ includes gay, omits transgender
Top military officials Monday attached their signatures to the Defense Department’s updated Human Goals Charter that for the first time is inclusive of gay servicemembers,...
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GLOV Names New Leadership
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), a program of The DC Center for the LGBT Community, has announced election results for its 2014 leadership positions....
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Williams Institute Makes Virginia Estimate
A report released Tuesday by the Williams Institute, an LBGT-focused policy think tank at the UCLA School of Law, says that extending marriage to same-sex...
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Gay NBA athlete Jason Collins one of TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’
“Jason has always maintained he’s first a basketball player. He is. But he’s also a leader and an inspiration. For Michael Sam, Derrick Gordon and...
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Maryland Coalition Launches ”Stand for Fairness” Campaign
The Maryland Coalition for Transgender Equality (MCTE) — a bloc of more than 50 political, social-justice, religious and community groups advocating on behalf of transgender...
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Finding Hope at Youth Pride Day
In my early teenaged years as I navigated adolescence and high school, it was hard to imagine what my future would hold. Where would I...
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Columbia Heights Murder Charge Dismissed
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia on Wednesday filed a motion in D.C. Superior Court to dismiss without prejudice the case against...
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Alexandria’s Rainbow Tuesdays Adds Services
The Rainbow Tuesdays Clinic, a semimonthly testing clinic aimed at reaching the LGBT community in Northern Virginia, announced last week the expansion of its HIV/STD...
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Leading marriage-equality supporters encourage acceptance of opposition
A prominent group of same-sex marriage supporters encouraged acceptance of those with opposing views in a statement published Tuesday. The nearly 60 signees include...
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City Fund Takes Flak
A coalition of LGBT advocacy groups and service organizations released a statement Monday evening expressing their disappointment that no LGBT-specific groups were named among 58...
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Assault Charges Dropped
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia on Tuesday agreed not to press charges against the second of two women implicated in the...
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The marriage-equality movement’s fight for credit
In the spring of 2009, Jo Becker, a reporter for The New York Times, began working on a profile of Ted Olson. Olson had recently...
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Equality Endorsements, Round 4
Equality Maryland PAC, the political action committee for the Free State’s major LGBT-rights organization, released a fourth wave of candidate endorsements for those seeking office...
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Ding-A-Lings of Spring
The rain of ridiculous ravings from America’s political right continued unabated as spring took hold. Let’s look at a few examples. Last week, Chelsea Clinton...
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Federal lawsuit filed against Georgia’s same-sex marriage ban
Georgia became the latest state to face a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Lambda Legal filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday...
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