News + Politics
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Hope and an Executive Order
Sen. Barack Obama was well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination for president in late February 2008. It was more than a month...
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CUAllies Rejected
Two weeks after the Catholic University of America rejected the proposal for CUAllies, a student organization for LGBT students and their allies, the club's lead...
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Stein Club Upholds Elections
Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's largest LGBT political organization, overwhelmingly rejected challenges to the club's Dec. 3 executive-board elections Wednesday evening,...
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Congressional Committee Tames Rep. Akin’s Anti-Gay Exit
A final attempt by outgoing anti-gay Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) to target gay and lesbian troops by writing discrimination into the Pentagon’s budget appears to...
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LGBT Coalition Urge House GOP To Drop Costly DOMA Legal Defense
The leaders of the nation’s largest LGBT-rights organizations urged Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to cease funding the legal defense of the Defense...
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Stein Election Winners Strike Back
[UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict at the John A. Wilson Building, the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club announced Dec. 19 that its “special meeting”...
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Advocates Remember Sen. Daniel Inouye as Stalwart for Equality
Sen. Daniel Inouye, one of the upper chamber’s strongest supporters of LGBT equality, died Monday at the age of 88. The Hawaii Democrat was the...
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Marking an Apparent White House First, Male Marine Proposes to Boyfriend
The White House hosted what appears to have been its first ever same-sex engagement. On Saturday, U.S. Marine Corps Captain Matthew Phelps dropped to one...
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Ortiz Sentenced
A woman who evaded police for three years after she was accused of stabbing a lesbian friend in D.C. was sentenced Friday to eight years...
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Deadly Romance
America's romance with guns, an emblem of our frontier spirit, has claimed its most innocent victims. When shots rang out in Sandy Hook Elementary in...
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Williams Ends Stein Club Presidential Bid
Add another wrinkle to the controversy over the recent Gertrude Stein Democratic Club elections. With a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 19, where members of...
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Anti-Gay Pundits Blame Secular Culture For Elementary School Shooting
Politics as usual came to a standstill for many in Washington today after a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. Police in Newton,...
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Uganda Parliament Adjourns, No Action on Anti-Gay Bill
“Ugandan Parliament will adjourn today Fri 14th until Feb 2013 without considering the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.” Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), tweeting...
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House Republicans’ Defense of DOMA Inches Toward $2 Million Mark
House Republicans are edging closer to the $2 million mark in their defense of the 1996 law that prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages. CQ...
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Stein Club Schism
In response to a series of challenges brought against the results of the Dec. 3 officer elections for the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the District's...
