News + Politics
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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...
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Spotlight on Hagel’s LGBT Record Amid Appointment Speculation
Advocates are voicing concerns amid reports that former Sen. Chuck Hagel is at the top of President Barack Obama’s list to become the next Secretary...
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“Beekman Boys” Rally Racers in Support of Gay Youth
“Thank you for helping him see that not only DOES it get better, it gets AMAZING.” Excerpt from a letter sent by the mother of...
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Congratulations, Coverboys
During my pre-Metro Weekly years, I would pick up an issue and go straight to Coverboy Confidential. I still read it, of course, but now...
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Tammy Baldwin Named to Two Key Senate Committees
The Senate’s first out member is expected to serve on the committee that oversees the legislation that has become one of the last rallying points...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Backpedals On Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage
In a joint interview with Piers Morgan on CNN last night, three of the Senate’s most visible faces sounded off on same-sex marriage and the...
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DC Center Gets Reeves Center Home
Home, at last. That's the sentiment of The DC Center's director, David Mariner, after the announcement Tuesday night by Mayor Vincent Gray (D) that the...
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Lay of the Legislative Land
Equality Virginia last month released a scorecard listing where Virginia legislators stand when it comes to anti-LGBT discrimination. Among the specific items on which legislators...
