News + Politics
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U.S. Embassy “Strongly Condemns” Iraq Killings Targeting Young Gay Men and Others
Addressing the recent spate of “emo killings” in Iraq, in which young gay men and others with similar public presentation have been targets, the spokesman...
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Kameny Estate Dispute Leads to Lawsuits
Plans for a gravesite memorial service for Frank Kameny, a local leader in the national gay civil rights movement who died on Oct. 11, 2011,...
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Reid Seeks Senate Vote on 17 Judicial Nominees, Including Out Gay Nominee Fitzgerald
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that he was filing a cloture petition to attempt to force Senate votes on 17 federal trial...
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Obama White House, Campaign Silent on Federal Contractor LGBT Nondiscrimination Policy Questions
Since Metro Weekly‘s exclusive reporting on March 8 that...
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Communion-Withholding Priest Suspended
A Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Washington who denied communion to Barbara Johnson, a lesbian, at her mother's funeral has been removed from ministry...
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ACLU: Contractor Policy “Most Important Step” Obama Can Take Now to Fight Anti-LGBT Job Bias
Following Metro Weekly‘s exclusive report on March 8 that then-Sen. Barack Obama told the Houston GLBT Political Caucus in February 2008 that he would support...
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New Poll Gives Boost to Marriage Equality Supporters in Maryland
Advocates of marriage equality in Maryland are touting a new poll that indicates a majority of voters — 52 percent — are supportive of the...
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Council Unanimously Approves Same-Sex Divorce Bill
Without much fanfare, the City Council unanimously passed a measure Tuesday, March 6, that permits same-sex spouses who were married in the District but reside...
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Chris Hughes, Out Gay Facebook Co-Founder and Former Obama Staffer, Buys The New Republic
Chris Hughes, the out gay 28-year-old co-founder of Facebook who left the company to help create then Sen. Barack Obama’s social media effort in his...
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More Felony Charges for Furr
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on March 7 filed several new charges against Kenneth Furr. Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer...
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Seventy Groups Tell White House SNDA Endorsement Would Be “a Clarion Call for Equality”
Today, 70 groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to the NAACP — along...
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GOProud Comes to Joe the Plumber’s Defense
GOProud has a new friend: Republican House candidate Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. Following his interview this morning on CNN, in which he was questioned...
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So Sorry
There are few things in life as insulting as an insincere apology for an insult. We know this because it is one of life's guarantees...
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Reaching Out to the Church
A few weeks ago I was invited to sit down with the cast of American University's Bare, The Musical, and discuss my life as a...
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Cendana Surges
An out gay Asian-Pacific Islander-American brought together a coalition of voters, boosted by support from the LGBT community and labor, to beat out sitting Councilmembers...
