News + Politics
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How Lady Gaga and Gay Students From the ’20s Overlap: A Secret Court, a New Foundation
On Wednesday, Feb. 29, a rally in support of nine Harvard students expelled for homosexuality in 1920 coincided with the launch of Lady Gaga’s pro-LGBT...
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HRC Endorses Dem Elizabeth Warren Over GOP Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts
The Human Rights Campaign announced today that it is endorsing Elizabeth Warren (D) in her challenge to unseat Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who won the...
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Andrew Breitbart, Right’s Hero and Unexpected Gay Ally, Has Died at 43
Andrew Breitbart died overnight, a fact first reported a little before 9 a.m. this morning at his site, Big Journalism, and confirmed to Metro Weekly...
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With Marriage Done, Maryland Gender Identity Bill Gets a Senate Hearing
With marriage equality out of the way, transgender Marylanders are hoping there is enough goodwill — and enough time left in the 2012 legislative session...
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Higher Dread
Whether you breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night when Rick Santorum lost in Michigan or a sigh of disappointment that he didn't take out...
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Capehart vs. Christie
The dirty secret about bullying is that it is more popular than most of us care to admit. Many adults believe that a bullying victim...
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Parker and Prosecution
Lesbian Judge Won't Marry Opposite-Sex Couples A Dallas County, Texas, judge has announced in February that she will no longer provide marriage licenses to heterosexual...
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Kato Honor, Banking Request
Award launched in honor of David Kato Jamaican gay-rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has been named the initial recipient of the annual David Kato Vision &...
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Trans Group Decries DC Police Chief for “Abdicating” Responsibilities, But Lanier Shoots Back
A local organization today accused Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier of “abdicating” her responsibility to keep transgender people safe, but Lanier retorted that the...
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Public Policy Polling: “Baldwin leads Thompson 46-45 in this month’s poll”
Public Policy Polling new polling released today shows Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) having improved in a match-up against her closest possible Senate competitor, former Wisconsin...
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Zimbabwe: “Not a country that makes friends with gays”
“We removed anything to do with homosexuals. We were all agreed that Zimbabwe is not a country that makes friends with gays.” Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana,...
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Romney Wins Both Arizona and Michigan Primaries, After a Slight Wait on Michigan
Tonight, voters in Michigan...
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Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, ENDA Co-Sponsor, Is Not Seeking Re-Election
Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) will not be seeking re-election, meaning the loss of one of the most pro-LGBT equality members of the Senate Republican...
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MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts: Christie-Capehart Debate Made Mom Take My Twitter Away
This past week, in the midst of marriage equality votes in Maryland and a day after the heated back and forth on MSNBC’s Morning Joe...
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LGBT Activists Reject Marion Barry, Yvette Alexander
If elections were solely decided by the LGBT community, some incumbent councilmembers would be serving on borrowed time. Incumbent Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and...
