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With Kerry Headed to State, Barney Frank Considers Senate Appointment
President Barack Obama nominated Sen. John Kerry for secretary of state today. The announcement was anticipated by many who suspected Kerry would replace Secretary of...
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Hagel Apologizes for Anti-Gay Remarks, Endorses Open Service
Facing the ire of LGBT-rights activists, former Sen. Chuck Hagel apologized today for anti-gay comments made in 1998 that surfaced yesterday. In a statement provided...
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Obama Takes Pride in LGBT Record with Time
President Barack Obama has no illusions over what he has delivered when it comes to LGBT rights. In an interview with Time for the magazine’s annual...
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Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Jeri Hughes
The Dec. 19 meeting was called in response to irregularities that occurred during the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club's Dec. 3 officer election. Individuals who had...
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Stein Club Point/Counterpoint: Earl Fowlkes Jr.
On Dec. 3 the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club narrowly elected Martin Garcia as president (47-45), Angela Peoples as vice president for political and legislative affairs...
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Advocates: Cory Booker Senate Run Won’t Hurt New Jersey Marriage Effort
Cory Booker will not run for governor of New Jersey, the Newark mayor announced in a video uploaded to his YouTube page Thursday. Instead, the...
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Gingrich Suggests Republican Evolution on Same-Sex Marriage
In an extensive interview with The Huffington Post, former Republican presidential candidate and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggested the Republican Party must evolve...
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Sane Choices Start at Home
If I had owned a gun at any point in the past 25 years or so, I would most likely be dead by now. Not...
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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...
