News + Politics
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Stage Is Set for April 4th Arguments in First Circuit DOMA Challenge Appeal
As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit gears up to hear appellate arguments next week in two cases challenging the federal definition...
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Blogs Come Out Swinging to Help Defeat North Carolina Marriage Amendment
Jeremy Kennedy — the campaign manager for the Coalition to Protect All North Carolina Families, the effort to defeat the marriage amendment that will be...
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Customs Agency Plans Rule Change to Ease Travel for Same-Sex Couples and Families
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that under a new rule it plans to propose on Tuesday, March 27, families headed by same-sex couples would...
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Pro soccer player Colin Clark apologies for calling ballboy an anti-gay slur
“I’d like to offer a sincere apology to everyone who watched the game, especially the ball boy for whom I used awful language towards.” “I...
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Oldest private military school plans first-ever Gay Pride week celebration
“It’s saying that we as a military community are looking to more to the future, that we’re not quibbling about the past, what was or...
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D.C. Officials Announce Arrest in IHOP Shooting
Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier held a press briefing Monday, March 26, to announce the arrest of a suspect...
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God-free Reason Rally draws thousands of participants; Gay support strong among speakers
The United States first major secular and humanist event, the Reason Rally, attracted between 10 to 20,000 participants to the National Mall on Saturday, March...
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Montgomery Found Competent to Stand Trial
The suspect charged with the Feb. 2 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones as she waited at a Northeast D.C. bus stop has...
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Starbucks CEO Dismisses NOM, Says Marriage Equality “Consistent With the Tradition” of Starbucks
On March 21, Starbucks chief executive officer Howard Schultz responded to a recent campaign launched by the National Organization for Marriage urging people to “Dump...
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Republican-Led New Hampshire House Overwhelmingly Rejects Marriage Equality Repeal
With a 211 to 116 vote on Wednesday, March 21, the New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected a bill to repeal the state’s marriage equality...
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Madonna’s uncensored ‘Girl Gone Wild’ video celebrates gay male imagery
Madonna released another dance music video for her gay fans today. The song is called “Girl Gone Wild.” The black-n-white video features the pop star...
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Watch and Learn
It's with some glee that I've read reports of women — angered by lawmakers pushing transvaginal probes and doctor-narrated ultrasounds prior to abortions, as well...
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Global Briefs: European Push and Pull
Lesbian Couple Loses Adoption Appeal Two French women have lost their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in their fight to adopt, Pink...
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National Briefs: Accountability and Accommodation
GLAAD Launches Commentator Accountability Project The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has begun a new campaign aimed at dousing anti-gay remarks from commentators...
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Hundreds March to Protest LGBT Hate Crimes in D.C.
{Protesters, including Rodney Shaffer (second from left, in red), stand in silence Photo by Dylan Comstock} Hundreds of D.C. residents took to the streets on...
