News + Politics
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GOProud’s Romney Endorsement Had Only A Bare Majority of the Board — And Little Gay Support
Over the past day, much has been made of the GOProud board’s decision to endorse Mitt Romney for president. The gay conservative group is known...
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Baldwin Launches Her First Ad in Wisconsin Senate Bid
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), running to take retiring Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)’s seat, has launched her first ad, Roll Call reports, and it focuses on...
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Retired Adm. Mike Mullen to Headline SLDN Event Marking One-Year Anniversary of DADT’s End
On Sept. 18, retired Admiral Mike Mullen,...
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Home Game
Walking around the upper deck of the Nationals stadium on Tuesday night with friends at Team DC's Night out at the Nationals, a few thoughts...
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A Child Shall Lead
Our 44th president's right-wing detractors have made a brand of their unrelenting vilification and thinly concealed racism, whether through ''Birtherism'' or wagging their finger at...
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Exit Interview
On Saturday, June 16, Joe Solmonese looked relaxed. It made sense. It was, after all, pretty much the first weekend that the former head of...
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AIDS Quilt's Double Duty
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, marking its 25th anniversary, is returning to D.C. The quilt, memorializing the victims lost to HIV/AIDS, was last displayed in full...
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Disparity Dialogue
A group of about 20 LGBT community members and advocates gathered in the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington June 14 to listen to local experts...
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Out and Outstanding
The Verizon Center has plenty of fanfare in store for summer. Maybe it's Coldplay. Maybe it's Cirque du Soleil. Whatever the performance, whatever the game,...
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DC Center Denied
The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, was dealt a blow in its search for a permanent home after its proposal to rent a...
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District Releases Annual HIV Report
The theme yesterday with regard to HIV/AIDS and other transmittable diseases affecting the District was that progress is being made, but there's certainly more work...
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BREAKING: House GOP Leaders Will Ask Supreme Court By the End of June to Take DOMA Appeal
Lawyers for the House Republican leadership today told a federal court that the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group plans to ask the Supreme Court to...
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Area Hospitals Get High Marks
The D.C. metropolitan area is among the top regions in the country when it comes to the quality and LGBT-friendliness of health care policies and...
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Immigration Board Decisions Suggest Plans For a Post-DOMA America
Recent decisions from the Obama administration suggest that the government is taking tentative first steps to gear up for the day when an American with...
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Gay-Owned Social Driver Honored
The DC Chamber of Commerce recently named local digital agency Social Driver its DC Small Business Champion of 2012, making it the first LGBT-owned business...
