News + Politics
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Generating Support for Gender Identity
A study released earlier this month by a nationally recognized think specializing in research related to the LGBT community found that amending Maryland's civil-rights law...
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Russian video claims gay parents rape their adopted children
“So this why, gays especially, are happy for children to be adopted by gays. They need children to satisfy their sexual desire” US blogger...
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Washington National Cathedral dean says there’s been no backlash for pro-LGBT stance
“I’ve gotten pushback from a number of things I’ve stood up in the pulpit and said, but almost none about sexuality. I think we have...
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DC Center Announces Fall Initiatives
The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, has announced two new autumn initiatives in the areas of combating anti-LGBT violence and promoting better health....
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Community Service Likely for ''Heidi Glum'' Defendants
One of the defendants seen in an online video apparently attacking a local drag performer in a June 23 incident at a restaurant at 14th...
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Advocates slam proposed protections for marriage foes as anti-gay ‘Trojan Horse’
LGBT-rights groups were out in force Thursday blasting a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that seeks to “protect freedom of conscience” of those...
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Little federal response to states blocking same-sex military benefits
Oklahoma became the latest state to stand in defiance of a Pentagon order by halting the processing of requests for benefits from members of the...
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Bipartisan push begins for federal domestic-partner benefits
A bipartisan effort is underway on Capitol Hill to secure equal benefits for the domestic partners of federal civilian employees. While the Office of Personnel...
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Quarter-Century Sentence for Corkins
Floyd Lee Corkins II, the 29-year old Virginia gay man who pleaded guilty in February to committing the August 2012 shooting at the Family Research...
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Change Is Good
My Facebook identity needs a change. For weeks, my profile photo has been the Trayvon Martin stylized black-and-white hoodie. My cover photo is Evgeny Feldman's...
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Meeting NoVa Health Needs
Due in part to the state's historically conservative tilt and anti-gay policies that have been enacted in state law, Virginia is often viewed as having...
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D.C. Sets First Bi Pride Day
The District will celebrate its first officially recognized Bisexual Pride Day on Sept. 23 as part of a grassroots effort to be celebrate the bisexual...
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Federal government to recognize married same-sex couples under private pension plans
Legally married same-sex couples will be recognized by the federal government when it comes to private employee-benefit plans no matter where they live, the Labor...
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Simmering divide over ENDA’s broad religious exemption set to boil
Congress has returned to Washington after its month-long summer recess, and as a historic Senate vote draws nearer on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, lingering divisions...
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Comfortably Numb
One of my instinctual reactions to bad news or worse people is humor, which is why I've always enjoyed writing about Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Santorum...
