News + Politics
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Don't Stop Believing
There was a point in my life when I thought nothing could have more meaning than music. Specifically, during my teenage years in high school...
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Stonewall Baby
A birthday is bound to prompt a reflection on the arc of one's life. For me, turning 43 on June 29, when I look at...
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Montgomery Co. Fliers Nixed
The Montgomery County School Board voted 6-1 Monday evening to end the county's quarterly program that allowed community nonprofits to send home informational fliers with...
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Epidemic Update
When Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in LGBT and HIV/AIDS care, hosts its July 21 forum on HIV/AIDS at George Washington University's...
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National LGBT Briefs: Texas Tragedy, Catholic Counter and a Union
Teen Lesbian Couple Found Shot in South Texas A lesbian couple, Mary Christine (aka Kristene) Chapa, 18, and Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, were discovered Saturday,...
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Global LGBT Briefs: Ukraine Assault, Apology in Australia and Farewell to Beck
Leading Ukrainian Gay Activist Attacked Taras Karasiichuk, an LGBT rights activist and head of the Kiev Pride 2012 organizing committee, was attacked on his way...
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Maryland Marriage Equality Supporters Not Phased by Opponents’ Signature Successes
A spokesman for Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition of groups working to defend the state’s recently passed civil marriage law, said the coalition is...
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History Made in a Changed Pentagon, As Nation’s Military Command Holds LGBT Pride Month Event
[Photo: Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson, fifth from right, poses for a photograph with servicemembers and veterans, including Ronnie Bryant, fourth from right, following...
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Washington Brothers Get Fall Trial
The two brothers accused of assaulting five women – some of whom identified as lesbians – in Columbia Heights in July 2011 will go to...
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Montgomery Case Continued
The man accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones, also known as JaParker and Logan, will remain in jail, held without bond, as...
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Stonewall Dems Endorse 25 for Congress, Including Six Out LGBT Candidates, But Pass By Warren
National Stonewall Democrats today announced the group’s first 25 endorsements — including six out LGBT candidates. The partisan LGBT organization has a rolling endorsement process,...
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More Than 30 LGBT, HIV/AIDS Orgs Call for National Immigration Reform in Wake of High Court Ruling
Today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s immigration law, S.B. 1070, holding that three of the four provisions...
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Voices for Visibility
Among the many expressions and celebrations of pride during LGBT Pride Month, a June 22 forum on Capitol Hill may have been among the more...
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Mary Cheney, Former VP’s Daughter, Marries Heather Poe; Virginia Will Not Recognize Their Union
As ABC’s Jake Tapper reported earlier this afternoon, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Mary Cheney, married her longtime partner, Heather Poe, today....
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D.C. Mayor Signs Bullying Bill
With the City Council's unanimous passage of the Youth Bullying Prevention Act of 2012 earlier this month, this morning saw Act 2, as Mayor Vincent...
