News + Politics
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LHP Ceremony Celebrates Women
The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) will offer its third annual ”Mujeres en el Movimiento” awards ceremony and networking happy hour Friday, March 28, honoring...
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Federal appeals court orders halt to same-sex marriages in Michigan
Same-sex marriages were placed on hold indefinitely in Michigan by a federal appeals court Tuesday. In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Maryland House committee approves gender identity bill
The Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee passed SB 212, a bill that would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, credit and public accommodations based on...
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Charge Against Sahle Dropped
A D.C. Superior Court judge last week disposed a case against one of two women accused in the June beating a local drag performer in...
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Obama administration takes action against Uganda for anti-LGBT law
The Obama administration confirmed Monday a series of cuts in aid to Uganda in response to the recent enactment of an anti-LGBT law by the...
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Biden labels LGBT discrimination ‘barbaric,’ but mum on executive order
Vice President Joe Biden urged Congress to outlaw LGBT workplace discrimination in a speech Saturday while making no mention of actions the Obama administration could...
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Ethiopia to make same-sex acts a non-pardonable crime
Ethiopian lawmakers are planning to pass a bill into law which would make same-sex acts between consenting adults a non-pardonable offense, LGBTQNation reports. Ethiopia’s Pardon and...
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Vice President Biden: It’s outrageous we’re even debating ENDA
“If you think about it, it’s outrageous we’re even debating this subject. I really mean it. I mean it’s almost beyond belief that today, in 2014,...
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Watch: Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer celebrate end of Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban
As news today came that U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman had found Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional, it brought with it...
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Federal court strikes down Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban
A federal judge struck down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman found a state constitutional amendment approved by...
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Student denied readmission to Baptist college after coming out
“I was told I couldn’t come back unless I petitioned to the president or I wrote a statement that I would adhere to the moral...
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Gay GOP House candidate urges party to embrace marriage equality
A gay Republican running for Congress warned that his party must evolve on LGBT-rights or face extinction. Richard Tisei, who is again seeking to unseat...
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POEFV Rallies On
A group of about 50 people, led by the pro-LGBT group People of Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV), gathered behind the Loudoun County Circuit...
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Westboro Baptist’s Fred Phelps dead
“When Americans were faced with the choice of accepting their LGBT neighbors or endorsing Phelps’s unfiltered hate, they chose the former. He showed anti-gay bigotry...
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RIP, Fred Phelps
While many people will be celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, whose name is synonymous with irrational hate and vitriol, I think that today the...
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