News + Politics
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos gives $2.5 million to gay marriage effort in Washington state
According to a press release from Washington United for Marriage, $2.5 million dollars has been donated toward the fight for marriage equality by the head...
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Court Declares Civil Unions Equal to Marriage
Massachusetts’s highest court declared civil unions to be the “equivalent of marriage” in a ruling Thursday that was hailed by marriage-equality advocates. The unanimous declaration...
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Florida’s Lt. Governor apologizes for lesbian stereotype
Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, has issued an apology for an earlier remark she made about women who engage in lesbian relationships. GLAAD reposted a fax...
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Scotland’s move to legalize same-sex marriage gets (mostly) positive reaction
A sampling of the reaction to the Scottish government’s decision to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. Hazel Marzetti, NUS Scotland: “Thousands of students contacted the...
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Global Forum on MSM & HIV releases report of rejected AIDS 2012 abstracts
Today, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV released a new report, “Missing Voices from the Field,” a collection of “more than 100 abstracts on...
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Turning the Tide in the District
Doctors, researchers and HIV/AIDS experts from Washington presented information about the epidemic within the D.C. to AIDS 2012 delegates yesterday, July 25, explaining how the...
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AIDS 2012’s Call to Action Aims for “AIDS-Free Generation”
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and leading HIV/AIDS experts have declared war on HIV and AIDS. Speaking to thousands of delegates attending the XIX...
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Dozens of locals counter the tiny AIDS 2012 Westboro Baptist appearance [video]
Wednesday, members of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church – followers of the Rev. Fred Phelps – arrived at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center...
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Scotland to introduce Gay Marriage bill
“We are committed to a Scotland that is fair and equal and that is why we intend to proceed with plans to allow same-sex marriage...
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Caution and Optimism
Having worked for many years to address the AIDS epidemic, especially among gay and bisexual men, I find it enormously inspiring to see thousands of...
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Pro Homo
I've been a professional homosexual since 1993. I don't mean that I was an escort, although that probably would have paid better than my job...
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Keeping Up with AIDS 2012
Though the official start for the XIX International AIDS Conference – marking the conference's return to the U.S. after a 22-year absence due to the...
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Boy Scout Fallout
Pressure is mounting on the Boy Scouts of America in the wake of the organization's decision last week to uphold a ban on out gay...
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A Progressive Pushes Back
Karen Gautney has always been a fighter. And bullies – whether neighborhood troublemakers or legislators in Richmond – don't scare her. A lesbian resident of...
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World LGBT Briefs: Women on the Verge
Liberian Legislature Takes Up Anti-Gay Bills While the Liberian House of Representatives considers a bill to make sex between people of the same gender a...
