News + Politics
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Holder Reaffirms Obama Administration’s Commitment to Gay Rights at LGBT Law Conference
Speaking to a packed ballroom at the Washington Hilton last night, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged LGBT lawyers to continue fighting for equality as...
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FRC Shooter Pleads Not Guilty
Floyd Lee Corkins, II, the man accused of shooting a security guard during an attempted attack at the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council...
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UPDATE: Maryland’s leading gay marriage foe, Don Dwyer, drinking before boating accident
Update August 23, 7:15 p.m.: WBAL News is reporting that Don Dwyer “admits that he was drinking alcohol” before he and one fellow passenger collided...
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Gay Marriage in Maryland Reaches Milestone of 100 Partners for Equality
Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of labor, faith and civil liberties groups seeking to uphold Maryland’s recently passed marriage equality law, announced Thursday that...
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LGBT Voters to Romney: Support our rights and we’d consider voting for you
Perhaps not surprisingly, gay voters are just as concerned about the economy as the rest of America. A new poll released by Logo TV found...
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Obama Administration Condemns Anti-Gay Violence in Zimbabwe
The State Department condemned the violent arrests and continued harassment of dozens of LGBT activists in Zimbabwe earlier this month in a statement released on...
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Corkins Indicted by Grand Jury
The man accused of shooting a security guard at the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council (FRC) was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday...
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Defining Hate
Debate over the tone of American political discourse continues a week after a gunman walked into the lobby of the Family Research Council's Washington office...
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Lesbian arrested for faking injuries and serious hate crime in Nebraska
ABC reports that Charlie Rogers, a lesbian and former basketball player, is being accused by police in Lincoln, Nebraska of falsely reporting a hate crime....
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Fourth DOMA Case Petitioned to Supreme Court
Pressure is mounting on the Supreme Court as another case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act was petitioned for review on Tuesday....
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Dan Savage Debates NOM’s Brian Brown
More than three months after National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown challenged Dan Savage to a debate over LGBT issues and the Bible, the...
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GOProud Endorses Tommy Thompson for Senate Against Lesbian Tammy Baldwin
A group of gay conservatives officially voted to put their support behind Republican Tommy Thompson in the Wisconsin Senate race against lesbian Democratic Rep. Tammy...
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Dana Milbank Mainstreams Hate
It was only a few days ago that the world of Washington politics and punditry was in its most self-congratulatory mode: Politics was about to...
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GOP's Hard Line on Gay Marriage
The Republican Party reaffirmed their opposition to marriage equality earlier this week with language that was as harsh as it was expected. A week before...
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HRC Jumps Into Fray After GOP Senate Candidate’s Rape Comments
An anti-gay Missouri Republican running for Senate is under fire for comments he made over the weekend saying that women rarely get pregnant from “legitimate...
