News + Politics
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White House insists ENDA a priority despite no State of the Union mention
The White House insisted Wednesday that President Obama’s failure to call on Congress to pass federal legislation prohibiting LGBT workplace discrimination during his State of...
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Obama criticized for omitting LGBT nondiscrimination from State of the Union
President Obama invoked the ire of LGBT-rights advocates Tuesday night as he failed to mention LGBT workplace protections during a State of the Union address...
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Equality Maryland issues second round of General Assembly endorsements
Equality Maryland PAC, the political action committee for Maryland’s major LGBT-rights organization, today released a second round of endorsements, 21, for General Assembly candidates, making...
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Ugandan President won’t sign anti-gay law unless it’s proven people aren’t born gay
“Unless I have got confirmation from scientists that this condition is not genetic, but a behaviour that is acquired, I will not sign the bill“...
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Obama takes executive action on wages, absent on LGBT nondiscrimination
After vowing earlier this month to take executive action on key issues if Congress won’t act, President Obama will sign an executive order raising the...
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Comfortably Numb
Clichés get a bad rap because they beat dead horses until the cows come home with all the originality of the wall of books Barnes...
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McAuliffe rejects request for special counsel to defend Virginia’s gay marriage ban
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Monday refused to appoint a special counsel to defend a state law prohibiting recognition of any form of same-sex relationship...
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Second Status Conference Ordered in Columbia Heights Murder
Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia told a D.C. superior court judge Friday that they are still seeking an indictment...
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Virginia Senate kills second-parent adoption bill
A bill that would have allowed same-sex couples, as well as other adults not in a legally recognized marriage, to jointly adopt by means of...
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Virginia House of Delegates steamrolls more pro-LGBT bills
A Virginia House subcommittee Thursday continued the lower chamber’s annual rampage against LGBT rights by voting to table four bills, including two patroned by Republicans,...
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Signs of a coming gay reckoning for the GOP
Reince Priebus knows his party has a problem. Taking the stage Friday at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C., one didn’t have...
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Virginia attorney general refuses to defend state’s same-sex marriage ban
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) announced at a press conference Thursday that he would no longer defend the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex relationships,...
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Outdated Offense
Another January weekend ends, and with it so does the Centaur MC's annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend. Congratulations to Joe Birdwell, Mr. MAL 2014. While everything...
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Steel City Streak
''I was always the one in the back of the bar,'' Joe Birdwell says. Up until fairly recently the 37-year-old lived a kind of shadowy...
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Democrats win control of Virginia Senate with pro-LGBT candidate
Jennifer Wexton, the pro-equality, Equality Virginia PAC-endorsed Loudoun County resident and prosecutor seeking to replace Attorney General Mark Herring (D) in the Virginia Senate, romped...
