News + Politics
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Prominent Iowa Marriage Equality Defender — One Iowa E.D. Troy Price — Joins Obama Campaign
In an email to One iowa’s supporters, outgoing executive director Troy Price announced that he was leaving the organization to work for President Obama’s reelection:...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi Supports 2012 Democratic Party Platform Including Marriage Equality
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her...
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Hanky Panky
Although most of us shoehorn ourselves into one of the two political parties, at least for purposes of voting, the fit is rarely perfect as...
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Maryland House Committees Send Marriage Equality Bill to Full House on 25-18 Vote, With GOP Support
The marriage equality bill in Maryland — the Civil Marriage Protection Act of 2012 — will be sent to the full House for a vote,...
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Komen's Reach
As the dust settles on the controversy over a decision by the nation's largest organization fighting breast cancer to withdraw grants from the nation's largest...
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In short order, “FagDay” Twitter trending topic replaced with “Gaga Is Our Valentine”
This morning, for a few minutes at least, the Valentine’s Day messages on Twitter included one that didn’t sit too well with LGBT equality advocates....
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Actor Matt Bomer, soon to appear in The Normal Heart, comes out
At Towleroad, Andy Towle notes that USA Network’s White Collar actor Matt Bomer, “who has up till now lived in a glass closet (most industry...
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Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill Raises International Tensions, Would Criminalize Touching
As the Associated Press claims that Uganda’s newly re-introduced Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB)...
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Washington Governor Gregoire Signs Marriage Equality Bill Into Law
Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire...
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Freedom to Marry Pushes Dems on Marriage Equality Platform, Supported by HRC, NGLTF, Stonewall Dems
Today, Freedom to Marry announced in a news release that it will be pushing the Democratic Party to adopt full marriage equality in its 2012...
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New Jersey Senate Passes Marriage Equality Bill, 24-16
The New Jerey State Senate has passed marriage equality by a vote of 24-16. The bill, which was expected to pass through the Senate, must...
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Suspect Makes Court Appearance in Jones Killing
D.C. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna on Saturday, Feb. 11, ordered that Gary Niles Montgomery, 55, of Northeast D.C., be held without bond as...
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Suspect Arrested in Deoni Jones Stabbing
The Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday evening that they have arrested a suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old transgender woman Deoni Jones, also...
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Maryland House Committees Host Joint Marathon Hearing on Marriage Equality
Like Rocky Balboa, marriage equality...
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High-Dollar Dem Donors Talk With Obama, Celebrating LGBT Successes But Looking for More
[Photo: Contractors, Obama for America staff and attendees of Feb. 9, 2012, fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election work and mill around outside the D.C. home...
