News + Politics
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Anti-Gay Group Uses Gay Couple's Photo
An anti-gay Virginia group has been slapped with a cease and desist letter after taking a gay couple's 2010 engagement photo from the Web and...
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Rev. Evans Asks Mayor Gray to Denounce Same-Sex Marriage
The president of a D.C.-based coalition of African-American and Latino churches, the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), is asking Mayor Vincent Gray (D) to renounce...
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UPDATED: Remembering David Chung
If you set foot in Nellie's Sports Bar over the past four years, you knew David Chung. He may not have been the face of...
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Tea Party Leader Declares Frank-Ready Wedding a Mockery
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Jim Ready may still be celebrating their new lives as a married couple after exchanging wedding vows July 7, but...
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Log Cabin Republicans Call for Mayor Gray’s Resignation
The D.C. chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s primary LGBT Republican organization, is calling for the resignation of a District politician for the...
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Strategizing Ahead of AIDS 2012
A panel of experts on HIV/AIDS told a room full of journalists at Tuesday media briefing that the right federal policies could essentially end the...
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Networking for Women
Ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), an Oakland, Calif.-based HIV/AIDS organization for women is partnering with the conference to advocate for research...
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Making a Supportive Splash
Swimmers will take to the Chester River Saturday, July 14, to raise money for both cleaner water and D.C.'s Metro TeenAIDS nonprofit organization at the...
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Maryland Marriage-Equality Supporters Intensify Efforts
It's been a busy couple of days for supporters of marriage equality in the Free State. Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of labor, religious,...
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Pretty Pretty Bang Bang
So here we were, just an hour since our arrival at my sister's home in oh-so-rural Kentucky. Cavin and I brought our nephew, Andrew, here...
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What's in a Name?
In the late 1980s, epidemiologists adopted the expression ''men having sex with men'' to categorize routes of HIV transmission, to acknowledge that not all such...
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Rep. Barney Frank and Jim Ready Marry
More than 25 years after becoming the first gay man to voluntarily come out as gay while serving in Congress, and just months away from...
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Progressive Pocan
While Wisconsin's capital city, Madison, is often dismissed by conservatives, including the state's Republican governor, as a liberal bastion out-of-step with the rest of the...
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Gay Arizona Official Resigns in Protest of Gov. Brewer
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s attempt to deny benefits to state employees in same-sex relationships cost her a civil servant on Tuesday. Edwin Leslie, who until...
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Romney Vows to Defend Traditional Marriage in Speech to NAACP
Mitt Romney vowed to defend traditional marriage as president during a speech delivered to the NAACP convention today in Houston. Only briefly did the presumptive...
