News + Politics
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Victim of Georgia Ave. Robbery Speaks
Following the March 12 beating and subsequent robbery of a gay man by two separate groups of people in the city's Park View neighborhood, Washington's...
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Chris Matthews confronted about having FRC’s Perkins on Hardball
Chris Matthews was confronted recently by Faithful America group members about his decision to have Family Research Council president Tony Perkins appear on his show,...
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Mark Bingham’s mother calls out Carson Daly for joke about gays fighting high jackers
“He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of...
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A gay father on NOM’s anti-family political strategy
“To me the most striking detail was that NOM had budgeted $120,000 for a project to locate children of gay households willing to denounce their parents on...
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Bowie State Opening Center for LGBT Students
Bowie State University will make LGBT history come April 2. On that Monday, the university will become the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU)...
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Three Cheers
One philosophy that I'm lucky enough to share with all my co-workers at Metro Weekly is the idea that the work we do is more...
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If I Had a Son
If you think we live in a post-racial society, look at the flood of hateful comments found by blogger Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs...
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LGBT National Briefs: Arizona advocate, Southeast lawsuit
LAIESKI JOINS PHOENIX MAYOR'S OFFICE Arizona-native Caleb Laieski, 17, who made the Washington rounds in 2011 lobbying for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, is joining Phoenix...
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Santorum Tells Young Man: “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. Not on camera.”
Today, at an event in a bowling alley, presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told a young man bowling with him, who apparently...
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Martina Navratilova first voted off of ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Tennis superstar, breast cancer survivor, and gay rights activist Martina Navratilova was not able to conquer the ballroom on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” this...
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Talk About Sex
Whitman-Walker Health will hold its third ''Community Conversation'' Thursday, continuing the series that began Jan. 26. Already having explored ''healthier hookups'' and substance abuse, the...
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News Analysis: NOM’s “Strategy for Victory” Shows Attempt to Sow Seeds of Discontentment
“Marriage will be won or lost in the United States in the next two to three years,” the previously confidential memorandum from 2009 stated. In...
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GLAAD for Geidner
While New York may be the city that never sleeps, Saturday, March 24, was particularly busy with the gay agenda. Sure, there was that infamous...
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STC Sets Memorial
The Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced plans for a memorial celebration of Jared Neff, who died March 7 from pneumonia-related complications. Neff, 30, a Missouri...
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DOJ Seeks Quick Court Action Against DOMA, As Health Benefits Begin for Karen Golinski’s Wife
On Monday, March 26, the Department of Justice took aggressive action to move forward the case of a California federal court employee, Karen Golinski, who...
