News + Politics
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Biden’s “Words Speak for Themselves” on His “Belief in Marriage Equality,” Incoming HRC Head Griffin Says
Speaking with Metro Weekly just now, Chad Griffin — the founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights who is due to become the president...
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News Analysis: Through the Obama Administration’s Marriage Equality Looking-Glass
This morning, on Meet the Press, Vice President Joseph Biden was asked about marriage equality — and opened another day of debate about which words...
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EEOC Decision in Trans Woman’s Case “Will Almost Certainly Impact” Federal Contractor Rules, Scholars Say
The April 20 decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace includes discrimination based on gender...
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Jobs Program Heralded by Administration Raises LGBT Workplace Protection Questions
On Wednesday, May 2, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was in Philadelphia to join with the city’s mayor, Michael Nutter, to announce that a...
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House Arrest for IHOP-Shooting Suspect
The woman arrested and charged with shooting a gay man following an altercation at a Columbia Heights IHOP restaurant has been placed under house arrest...
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Generation Now
Eighteen years old may seem young for a human being, but it seems pretty old for a magazine. This issue of Metro Weekly is the...
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Surveying the Transgender Scene
For the next six months to a year, the DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) will be surveying members of the District's transgender community in hopes of...
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Ruby Corado to Open LGBT Latino Resource Center
Everybody is welcome at Casa Ruby. That's the pitch from local transgender activist Ruby Corado, who plans to open an LGBT-targeted resource center in Columbia...
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Circle Celebration
D.C.'s 16th annual Youth Pride celebration went ahead as planned Saturday, April 28, with periods of cloudiness and sunshine, but none of the showers that...
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BLAG Seeks Intervention to Defend DOMA in SLDN Lawsuit Seeking Equal Spousal Benefits
The House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group today sought to intervene, as expected, in the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act and related laws brought...
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Romney’s Out Gay Spokesman Quits, Says Focus on “Personal Issues” Diminished Ability to Do the Job
The Washington Post‘s Right Turn blog reports that the Romney campaign’s high-profile gay spokesman, Richard Grenell, has resigned today. Grenell was named on April 19 as...
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EEOC Commissioner Feldblum Calls on Obama, Senate to Keep EEOC Fully Staffed
On Friday, April 27, Stuart Ishimaru stepped down from his post as one of five commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The bipartisan panel...
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Lauper's D.C. Date
She won't be belting out her signature songs, but Cyndi Lauper is heading to Washington nonetheless. It will be a visit for the kids. ''I...
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Ground Shifts Quickly Beneath White House on Federal Contractor Executive Order Issue
Within two weeks of President Obama’s April 11 decision not to pursue an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual...
