News + Politics
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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...
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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...
