News + Politics
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DOMA Challenge Goes to Federal Appeals Court in New York
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard the latest arguments against the Defense of Marriage Act yesterday as lesbian widow Edith Windsor’s suit...
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Choi Cases Continue Amid Recusal, Writ of Mandamus and High-Level Subpoenas
A day before the Sept. 25 criminal hearing for gay rights – and environmental – activist Lt. Dan Choi, accused of failing to obey an...
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New Poll Shows Maryland’s Question 6 Winning, Fueled by Boost from African-Americans and Independents
Poll data released Wednesday has more good news for supporters of marriage equality. The poll of 813 registered voters, conducted by Annapolis-based Gonzalez Research &...
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DHS Will Provide Written Guidelines for Considering Same-Sex Couples in Immigration Cases
Almost two months after Democrats on Capitol Hill urged the Obama administration to recognize in writing binational same-sex relationships with regard to deportation proceedings, the...
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Suspect in Chinatown Transgender Assault Arraigned
A man accused of assaulting a transgender woman in Chinatown in August was arraigned in D.C. Superior Court today, Sept. 28, on a charge of...
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Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Appealing Transgender Inmate’s Landmark Ruling
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) is facing criticism from the LGBT community after announcing his administration will appeal a federal court’s ruling earlier this month...
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''But What's Obama Done for Me Lately?''
Given the ongoing efforts of Republicans to establish stringent voter ID laws to eradicate a fraudulent voting problem — a problem that even the laws'...
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Resisting the Rage Trade
The anti-gay, xenophobic and misogynist bullies of the Christian right are so determined to defeat President Obama and promote orthodoxy that they endanger American diplomats...
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Pioneer Days
The Rainbow History Project, a local organization formed in 2000 to preserve and promote the history and culture of the D.C. area's LGBT community, earlier...
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Maryland Pro-Equality Forces Court Key Demographics Through Ads, Phone-Banking to Catholics, Rural Voters and African-Americans
Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of labor, religious and community groups seeking to uphold Maryland’s marriage-equality law by approving the Question 6 referendum at...
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Senators Introduce Nondiscrimination Bill for Jury Selection
Legislation introduced last week by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) seeks to bring nondiscrimination language to the court system, prohibiting the exclusion of individuals from serving...
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Gay Couple Suing Public Advocate
When Brian Edwards of New Jersey discovered an engagement photo of him and his husband was being used in an anti-gay attack ad in a...
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MPD Tracking Anti-LGBT Assaults
Since Sept. 11, five different District residents have been approached by strangers on the street and physically attacked, groped, threatened or robbed while having homophobic...
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Cash Cut for Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America has lost its biggest corporate donor, a turn coming less than two days after LGBT activists began circulating a petition...
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Southern Poverty Law Center Moving Ahead with Lawsuit Against Va.-Based Public Advocate
The Southern Poverty Law Center is following up on the group’s July warning to the Falls Church-based Public Advocate of the United States and the...
