News + Politics
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Maryland Marriage Equality Foes Submit Referendum Signatures, Proponents Ready Campaign
Marylanders for Marriage Equality, the coalition seeking to uphold the Free State’s recently passed marriage equality law, issued a statement on May 29 outside the...
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DC Black Pride Goes Back to School
With attendees filtering in and out, about 150 people filled the schoolyard of the Francis-Stevens Educational Complex Sunday, May 27, at any given time, all...
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Green Lantern to be the newly revealed gay DC Comics character, blog reports
The DC Comics character who is going to be revealed as gay...
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Federal Judge Rules DOMA, Tax Code Force Unconstitutional Treatment For Same-Sex Couples
On Thursday evening, a federal judge in California held that the Defense of Marriage Act and a provision of tax law unconstitutionally limit same-sex couples...
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GLAA Issues ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies''
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., (GLAA) issued its ''Manifesto Against Religious Bullies'' today, just as the DC Black Pride weekend is...
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Carson Hearing Postponed
A scheduled May 22 status hearing for LaShawn Carson, accused of shooting a gay man at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant, has been postponed. A...
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State Department Releases Annual Report on Human Rights, Details LGBT Mistreatment
The State Department this morning released its 2011 Annual Report on Human Rights, the 36th such annual report. Marking the release, Secretary of State Hillary...
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New Poll Shows Voters Support Maryland Marriage Equality Bill, Buoyed By Increased Black Voter Support
A strong majority of Marylanders would vote to uphold Maryland’s recently passed marriage equality law if it is taken to a referendum in November, a...
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Launching Pride
Back in the younger years of DC's Black Pride celebration, I was coordinating HIV-prevention outreach efforts with one of my black co-workers at Whitman-Walker Clinic....
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NAACP Gets to Yes
A group calling itself the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hardly sounds cutting edge. Yet 62 of 64 board members for the...
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Release, Change of Bond Denied for Furr
Kenneth Furr, the off-duty Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a car containing five people, including at least two transgender women, remains held...
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Colin Powell Supports Marriage Equality, Says of Gay Friends: “They are as stable a family as my family is.”
Retired Gen. Colin Powell — the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose voice in 1993 in support of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
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Obama Campaign Launches LGBT Outreach Effort, With HRC’s Solmonese Wearing Two Hats
Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese was on double duty today, serving as the main speaker on the launch of the Obama for America campaign’s...
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Virginia's Vexing Politics
As the saying goes, ''Virginia is for lovers.'' While few would argue the tourism slogan applies to gay people, one might wonder when the state...
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Close to Home
It may not be a topic that fills the community with pride, but it's certainly relevant: LGBT youth homelessness. That's the topic the community will...
