News + Politics
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House Committee Plans to Consider Measures Devised With Support of Anti-LGBT Groups, Email Shows
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) plans to introduce an amendment on Wednesday to the National Defense Authorization Act in a mark-up of the bill before the...
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Carney Signals Obama Comments Coming on Marriage Equality, Talks About Maurice Sendak’s Death
On their way to Albany, New York, today, White House press secretary Jay Carney took some more questions about the president and vice president’s views...
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Capital Pride Accepts Charity Challenge
Capital Pride's ''Friends of Pride,'' a special recognition for those individual donors who help keep the annual LGBT festival free for attendees, isn't new. But...
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HRC, CAP, Williams Make Public Their Research On LGBT Workplace Discrimination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, Center for American Progress and Williams Institute — none of which are known as...
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White House Spokesman on Marriage: “The president is the right person to describe his own personal views.”
Today’s White House press briefing focused extensively on the questions of where the president and vice president stand on marriage equality — and left little...
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TransPride's May Move
In this season of pride, space on the calendar can be pretty tricky to come by. But Capital TransPride did a good job at securing...
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Biden on Marriage Equality: From “Evolving” in 2010 to “Absolutely Comfortable” Today
To see Vice President Joseph Biden’s own evolution on marriage equality, one need only look at the difference between his answer today to David Gregory...
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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...
