News + Politics
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RNC approves anti-gay marriage resolution
The Republican National Committee reaffirmed the GOP’s official opposition to marriage equality with a unanimous vote on Friday, despite pushback from pro-gay conservatives. During Day...
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Choi Appealing Conviction
Prominent gay rights activist and former Army Lt. Dan Choi has filed notice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that he...
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Social conservatives seek to reaffirm GOP opposition to same-sex marriage
The Republican Party continues to grapple with marriage equality as members of the Republican National Committee meet in Los Angeles for their spring meeting this...
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Montgomery Again Found Competent To Stand Trial
The Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones last year by stabbing her in the face as she waited at a Northeast...
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Cuccinelli: The Second Coming of Santorum
I'm going to share my dirty little secret: I kind of miss Rick Santorum. Sure, he's a nerdy bully who can froth at the mouth...
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Blowing Up the Coalition
Clarence Mitchell, the civil-rights activist and longtime chief lobbyist for the NAACP, used to tell of something then-Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson often said to...
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Six-Way Race Splits Support
Shawn Thomas is in a personal state of election fatigue. The 36-year-old Adams Morgan resident says he can't remember a time in recent years when...
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Watching the Detective
Jaime Wojdowski is ready to accept your complaints. An equal-opportunity specialist and investigator for the D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR), Wojdowski investigates complaints from...
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Advocates rally for LGBT-inclusive immigration reform
With the Senate’s “gang of eight” expected to unveil their comprehensive immigration-reform bill as early as this week, a coalition of advocates rallied outside the...
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California issues groundbreaking directive on transgender health care
“This one letter will save lives. For years, transgender Californians have been denied coverage of basic care merely because of who we are. Discriminatory insurance...
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UPDATED: GLAA Asks Two D.C. Council Candidates To Apologize
Following an April 8 candidate debate featuring the six candidates running for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council, D.C.'s nonpartisan Gay and Lesbian Activists...
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Group releases inaugural “The Trans 100” list, including many with D.C. ties
“If you recognize that this project is incomplete, and yet still has much to offer, then we trust you will find what we did: an...
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USAID announces new LGBT partnership
“This partnership leverages the financial resources and skills of each partner to further inclusive development and increase respect for the human rights of LGBT people...
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NY’s Christine Quinn hits on broad significance of mayoral campaign at Victory Fund brunch
Christine Quinn brought her campaign for New York City mayor to D.C. on Sunday, telling a crowd of Victory Fund supporters that this is not...
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Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson backs marriage equality
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) joined the stampede of marriage-equality supporters today, leaving just three Senate Democrats who have not voiced support for same-sex marriage. “After...
