News + Politics
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Supreme Court pushes nation one step closer to full marriage equality
In what was a watershed moment Wednesday for the gay-rights movement, pushing the nation closer than ever to full marriage equality, the Supreme Court ruled...
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Archdiocese of DC rages against marriage ruling with ”homosexual aberrations, sexual sins” vs. ”the children”
Charles Pope, the longtime voice for the Archdiocese of Washington‘s blog, fired off another angry, anti-gay rant in reaction to the Supreme Court‘s marriage-equality rulings. Today,...
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Obama applauds Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality
While aboard Air Force One en route to Senegal, President Barack Obama prasied the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act...
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BREAKING: SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN DOMA, DISMISSES PROP. 8 ON STANDING
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act defining marriage as between a man and a woman...
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Google adds an extra dimension to “gay” searches
Google just added a special rainbow to its search results for terms like “gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, LGBT, GLBT” and even “queer.” June is traditionally...
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Suspect Arrested in Stanton Road Stabbing
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced today that an arrest has been made in connection with the stabbing attack of a transgender woman...
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UPDATED: Competency Contested in Deoni Jones Case
On the day that a D.C. Council bill named in memory of the murdered transgender woman Deoni Jones unanimously passed the first of two required...
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House Democrats seek to expand housing protections to LGBT people
Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeking to extinguish LGBT housing discrimination with legislation introduced today that would amend a key provision of the Civil Rights...
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Chuck Hagel celebrates LGBT Pride month at Pentagon event
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel marked June as LGBT Pride month at an event at the Pentagon today, describing gay and lesbian servicemembers as “integral...
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D.C. Drag Entertainer Beaten in Viral Video
A recently posted video that's gone viral shows a violent altercation involving a gay man who works as a drag entertainer and two women, which...
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OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson to stay on temporarily after board upset
Following more than 24 hours of turmoil that appeared to threaten to break apart the nation’s largest LGBT military organization, Allyson Robinson said Monday evening...
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Activists fault Supreme Court’s employment-discrimination rulings for possible LGBT impact
The Supreme Court ruled narrowly today to make it harder for employees to sue their employers for workplace discrimination and retaliation in two cases advocates...
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UPDATED: Transgender Woman Suffers Knife Attack in Southeast D.C.
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating the case of a transgender woman who was hospitalized after being stabbed up to 40 times. The attack...
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UPDATED: National Cathedral Sets SCOTUS-related Prayer Service
With focus on the Supreme Court’s upcoming release of opinions in two cases, one challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the other challenging California’s...
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Teaming Up for HIV Testing
Whitman-Walker Health, the community nonprofit center that specializes in LGBT culturally competent care and HIV/AIDS, will be partnering with Walgreens pharmacy stores and Greater Than...
