News + Politics
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Immigration Equality Files DOMA Challenge, Obama Administration Left Them “No Choice”
Filing what she described as the organization’s “first big impact litigation,” Immigration Equality’s executive director, Rachel Tiven, tells Metro Weekly that the organization was “left...
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Pelosi, Hoyer: GOP Move Against “Decorated Veteran … Clearly Exceeds” Authority on DOMA Fight
The ongoing dispute between the House Republican and Democratic leadership over the defense of federal laws banning recognition of same-sex married couples reached a new...
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Romney’s NOM Connection: In 2008, Romney PAC Gave NOM a $10,000 Contribution
In a development reported earlier today by The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, documents provided to Metro Weekly and other LGBT entities show that Mitt Romney’s...
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New Poll on Md. Marriage Equality Shows Close Divide, With Large Number of No Opinion, Undecideds
Another day, another poll showing Marylanders divided over the issue of marriage equality. With the state’s recently passed marriage equality law likely headed to referendum...
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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...
