News + Politics
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Voters Retain Iowa Judge Who Ruled In Favor of Marriage Equality
Marriage equality appears to be safe from repeal in Iowa as Democrats maintained a majority in the state Senate on Tuesday. The Democratic majority in...
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Still Facing Wolves
Totemism, in which a group identifies with a symbolic animal, survives mostly in sports teams. But modern politics also has a totemic aspect, though not...
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Number of LGBT Members of Congress Nearly Double
The number of out members of Congress is set to increase to historic levels following a series of wins during the Nov. 6 election. When...
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D.C. Date with ManDate
Project Healthy Living – a group of African-American gay and bisexual men associated with DC CARE and the District's Department of Health HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD...
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Maryland Makes History
With polls closing at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Maryland became the first of four states to defend marriage equality at the ballot box Nov. 6, ending...
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Warrant Issued for Suspect in Transgender Attack
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Tuesday issued a bench warrant for Ahmad Robinson, 29, of Silver Spring, after he failed to appear in court...
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Obama Wins Second Term as LGBT Advocates Hope to Maintain Momentum
In what was a series of decisive victories for LGBT Americans on Election Day, President Barack Obama won re-election shortly after polls closed on the...
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LGBT Races to Watch
All eyes will be on the presidential race when the first polls close on the East Coast. But while the contest between President Barack Obama...
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Montgomery County Residents Seem to Favor Question 6, But Opposition Remains Strong Even in Liberal Stronghold
Montgomery County residents flowed steadily in and out of the voting precinct at Bethesda’s Walter Johnson High School this morning, with wait times running anywhere...
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Voter Guide: Obama and Romney on the Issues
It’s Election Day in America and with millions heading to the polls to cast their ballot for president it’s worth taking a look at where...
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NCTE Offers Resources to Trans Voters as Right-Wing, Tea Party-Backed Group Highlights Transgender People as Example of “Voter Fraud”
A right-wing organization with ties to a Texas-based tea party group is training its volunteer poll workers with literature that, among other things, depicts a...
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Obama’s Electoral Edge Carrying Into Election Day
Polls show President Barack Obama heading into Election Day with an advantage in several key swing states, but still engaged in a tight race with...
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Last Pitch Effort
{Sean Bugg and Cavin Le exchange rings (Photo by Ward Morrison)} I've joked often in the past few months that I'm lucky my family tree...
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Columbia Heights Hate Crime Reported
A Columbia Heights man is reporting that he was beaten on his doorstep after being chased by a group of men shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic...
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UPDATED: Vikings’ Chris Kluwe quits Pioneer Press blog over editors’ anti-gay marriage bias
UPDATE (Sun, 3:00 am): Mike Burbach, editor for the Pioneer Press, responded to a wave of criticism his news site received over the weekend. He...
