News + Politics
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Stonewall tackles “That’s so gay” and homophobic abuse in British schools
Stonewall, an LGBT charity in the United Kingdom, today launched a new campaign to tackle “endemic levels of homophobic language in schools.” According to the...
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Cheney sisters’ marriage feud roils Wyoming Senate race
When Liz Cheney appeared on MSNBC in May 2009, where exactly she stood on the issue of same-sex marriage was anything but clear. “My family...
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Gunmen reportedly open fire at Moscow gay club
“Homophobia is policy in Putin’s Russia!” –Spectrum Human Rights, from the Virginia-based human-rights group’s Nov. 16 release advisving that affiliates in Moscow and Russian...
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Trial Begins for 2012 Barracks Row Stabbing
The trial of Michael Poth, a former Marine accused of fatally stabbing fellow Marine Philip Bushong following an altercation involving the yelling of anti-gay epithets...
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Sen. Mark Kirk shuts down anti-LGBT group’s Capitol Hill meeting
An anti-LGBT group that was set to meet on Capitol Hill Friday to discuss what America could learn from Russia’s newly enacted law prohibiting “propaganda...
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Mizeur Announces Coates as Running Mate
Maryland Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.) officially announced her selection of the Rev. Delman Coates as her running mate in her bid to become Maryland's...
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Crossed Out: Just 17 percent of U.S. congregations report out gay parishioners
Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors. So few gay people. Just 17 percent of religious congregations in the United States...
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One Gay Man's Russia
In the comfortable second-floor meeting space of Dupont Circle's Le Mirch restaurant Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, the conversation had zero to do with anything so...
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Listening and Learning
With the holidays around the corner, plenty of us are bound to find ourselves in alien surroundings. It might be at the family home of...
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Transgender Day of Remembrance's Double Duty
As Washington's LGBT community puts the final touches on a ceremony marking the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20, the mood of this year's D.C....
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Herring gains 164-vote edge in Virginia AG race ahead of recount
A tabulation of provisional ballots in vote-rich Fairfax County, coupled with a statewide re-canvass of votes from other areas, has given state Sen. Mark Herring...
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Hawaii governor signs marriage equality into law
“All of those who have been invisible will now be visible to themselves and the whole world.” — Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie before signing marriage...
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Gene Robinson reflects on the progress of gay marriage
“I can’t believe the progress we have made. If you are anywhere around my age, you could not have dreamt in your growing up that...
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Maryland’s Heather Mizeur to name Rev. Delman Coates as running mate
Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery Co.), running to become Maryland’s first female governor and first openly lesbian governor, will announce her selection of lieutenant governor late...
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Barack Obama comments on the passage of Hawaii’s same-sex marriage bill
“Whenever freedom and equality are affirmed, our country becomes stronger. By giving loving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry if they choose, Hawaii...
