News + Politics
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Senate unanimously confirms first out gay federal appeals court judge
Todd Hughes was unanimously confirmed, 98-0, by the U.S. Senate Tuesday to the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today,...
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UPDATED: Community Loses Past GLAA President
This time last year, Barrett L. Brick was being honored by Immigration Equality with the group's Global Vision Award as a ''consistent voice in speaking...
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Schwartz Opens Her Home to PFLAG
Former D.C. Councilmember Carol Schwartz (R-At large), Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett (D) and Jay Fisette, vice chair of the Arlington County Board, will be...
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Ready? Set! No.
Even after a few years of watching it grow, I still find myself fascinated daily by my Facebook feed. The thousand or so ''friends'' I...
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Sean Eldridge omits husband, marriage advocacy from campaign launch
It was an announcement many have expected for months. In a nearly three-minute video tweeted out Sunday night, Sean Eldridge announced his candidacy for New...
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Wanda Alston House Marks Five Years
Advocates for at-risk LGBT youth will host a reception Oct. 8 to celebrate the formation of the Wanda Alston Foundation and the fifth anniversary of...
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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...
