News + Politics
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Casa Ruby Covergirls
A local makeup artist who recently launched his new brand of cosmetics is giving back to the local LGBT community, offering makeup and fashion instruction,...
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LGBT Activists Target UPS for Boy Scout Donations
Activists are turning their attention to UPS in their latest attempt to pull corporate funding for the Boy Scouts of America. A week after Intel...
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Barney Frank Backing Appeal of Ruling Requiring Sex-Reassignment Surgery for Transgender Inmate
Out gay Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said today that he agrees with a decision by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) last week to appeal a...
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Liberty Counsel Announces Legal Challenge to California’s “Ex-Gay” Ban
As LGBT-advocates continue to hail Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a bill on Saturday that made California the first state to officially outlaw gay “conversion”...
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Defeat for NOM As Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Campaign Finance Case
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal brought by the National Organization for Marriage in a case regarding Maine’s campaign finance laws....
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Schwarzenegger Performed Two Same-Sex Weddings as Governor
In what he dubbed “the scoop” of his interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed he officiated over two...
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Corkins Status Hearing Set for Late October
Floyd Lee Corkins II, the Herndon, Va., man accused of shooting a security guard at the D.C. headquarters of the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC),...
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Baltimore Ravens’ Matt Birk rants against gay marriage based on ‘Catholic values’
Matt Birk of the Baltimore Ravens football team wrote publicly about his disdain for gay and lesbian marriage rights on Sunday, Sept. 30. His opinion...
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Supreme Court Takes No Action on Proposition 8 or DOMA Cases
The Supreme Court made no new announcements today on whether they will hear marriage equality cases regarding California’s Proposition 8 or the various challenges to...
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Gigi Chao allays ‘utter insanity’ after billionaire dad’s $64 million marriage offer
”Dear Earthlings, thank you for your flood of marriage proposals, love letters, business proposals, death threats, and other general correspondence. Whether you are Muslim, Catholic,...
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Barney Frank goes after Mitt Romney on LGBT rights
A new video from the “Mitt Gets Worse” project featured Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) hounding Mitt Romney over his lack of support for gay rights....
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Schwarzenegger says he performed two gay wedding ceremonies
Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California and mega-movie star, spoke openly with “60 Minutes” this Sunday. He told the interviewer, Lesley Stahl, that his mother once...
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British comic David Walliams had ‘gay experiences’ as youth
David Walliams, best known as one half of the comic duo behind the TV show “Little Britain,” tweeted that his new book tackles the “gay question.”...
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California Outlaws “Ex-Gay” Therapy for LGBT Youth
California became the first state in the nation to officially outlaw gay “conversion” and “reparative” therapy for minors after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed the...
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Shaw-Area Stabbing Trial Set for January
Three defendants accused of taking part in the stabbing of a gay teenager outside the Howard Theatre, near T Street and Florida Avenue NW, in...
