News + Politics
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Obama Administration Continues Silence on Proposition 8
The White House refused to weigh in Tuesday on the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the case challenging California’s Proposition 8. At a press...
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Justice Scalia Defends Anti-Gay Ruling in Texas Sodomy Case
Less than a week after the Supreme Court announced it would weigh in on same-sex marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia defended anti-gay legal opinions he has...
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Supreme Court Showdown
Advocates have been left energized but wary following the Supreme Court's Dec. 7 announcement that it will weigh in on a pair of cases regarding...
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EXCLUSIVE: OutServe-SLDN’s Allyson Robinson First Recipient of Arcus Grants Supporting New Leadership
In a renewed effort to support LGBT-rights organizations, the Arcus Foundation will announce a $50,000 grant today to the country’s largest military LGBT-rights organization in...
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Hate Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians Increase In 2011
Hate crimes against gays and lesbians are on the rise in America, according to the latest report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Released earlier...
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Setting the Richmond Stage
LGBT rights groups, led by Equality Virginia, the largest such group in the state, are rallying around an antidiscrimination bill ahead of the 2013 legislative...
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BREAKING: Supreme Court To Weigh In On Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a pair of cases regrarding state and federal same-sex marriage laws, determining the constitutionality of California’s...
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FRC Shooting Case Continued to January
The man accused of shooting a security guard at the D.C. headquarters of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC), appeared in U.S. District Court Thursday...
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Annapolis Business Drops Weddings
With the start of the new year, same-sex couples will have access to legally sanctioned marriage in Maryland. This comes after the state already recognized...
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Jim DeMint To Leave Senate To Head Conservative Think Tank
Anti-gay Sen. Jim DeMint announced Thursday that he would resign from the Senate to head one of the country’s largest conservative think tanks. The South...
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Wealthy LGBT Americans Urge Support for Obama’s Plan to Avert “Fiscal Cliff”
In a Dec. 5 letter sent to Democratic and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, 24 of the country’s most financially successful gays and lesbians urged...
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Cities of Refuge
On the night of Dec. 1, members of Light Brigade Maryland, joined by members of GetEqual DC and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA),...
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Protest Shines on Ugandan Embassy
Groups of local activists joined Saturday evening, Dec. 1, to protest the renewed push in the Ugandan Parliament for a bill that would further criminalize...
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Giving Thanks
Philip Pannell is getting a vacation. Finally. ''It's only the second vacation I've ever had in my life,'' says Pannell, 62, an icon of grassroots...
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White House Gives No Updates on Workplace Nondiscrimination Executive Order
The White House provided no new updates Wednesday on an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation...
