News + Politics
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Global LGBT Briefs: From Sea to Sofia, and State
No Casablanca Date for RSVP Gay Cruise An RSVP Vacations gay cruise expected to visit Casablanca, Morocco, July 1, was reportedly barred from making the...
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DC GOP Adopts Inclusive Platform
The D.C. Republican Committee, the District's equivalent of a state party, has become the first Republican state party to endorse LGBT-inclusive language into its party...
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Plea Deal Offered to Three in Howard Theatre Stabbing
This morning, three co-defendants accused of stabbing a 16-year-old male three times while yelling homophobic slurs at him had their preliminary hearing continued to Monday,...
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LCR’s Christian Berle Leaving To Help Richard Tisei, Out Gay GOP Candidate in Massachusetts
Christian Berle, the deputy executive director at Log Cabin Republicans, is leaving his job at the organization formed to represent gay Republicans to join the...
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DOJ Denies Any “Policy” on DOMA-Impacted Cases at Immigration Appeals Board
In response to Metro Weekly‘s exclusive June 19 report on a series of decisions from the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals that sent...
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Questions on Crime
Members of the D.C. City Council chastised the Metropolitan Police Department for a perceived failure to effectively engage local community members on initiatives aimed at...
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Life in Coopersville
Naturally, I already knew that Anderson Cooper was gay, for a number of reasons. First, I work in Washington as a journalist, an industry of...
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With Anderson out, colleagues praise the move as “honest,” saying he’s “helped many”
Today’s coming-out letter from...
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Anderson Cooper officially comes out to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish
“It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken...
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LGBT Military Groups SLDN and OutServe Announce Plan to Combine Organizations
This past weekend the boards of directors of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and OutServe voted to become one organization by October, SLDN announced this morning....
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Armando Montano, 22-year-old out gay journalist, found dead in Mexico City
Armando “Mando” Montano, a 22-year-old news intern for the Associated Press in Mexico City this summer, was found dead early Saturday, June 30, according to...
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Richard Isay, psychiatrist who fought gay “mental illness” label, dead at 77
The New York Times reports tonight that Richard Isay, 77, has died. From the article: Dr. Richard A. Isay, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and gay-rights advocate...
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BREAKING: House GOP Leaders Ask Supreme Court to Review DOMA Case
The Republican-led House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group today mailed its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review the May 31 ruling of the...
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Frenchie Davis disappointed by “condescending” Tom Joyner interview
Singer Frenchie Davis expressed her feelings on Twitter after appearing on the Tom Joyner Morning Show: “so confused about why Tom Joyner asked me to be on...
