News + Politics
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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...
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Outliers: Is Mold Infestation the Cause of the Ninth Circuit’s Prop 8 Opinion?
There has been much commentary in the past two days about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s opinion affirming the trial court...
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Chuckles for the Win
Perhaps my main disappointment in the Ninth Circuit decision finding California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional is that they couldn't wait a week to release...
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Partners on the Journey
In late January I had the pleasure of celebrating my mother's 80th birthday as we pulled away from Cozumel (all passengers accounted for, thank you...
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Honoring an Artist
Coming to Baltimore for the first time, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change, ''The National Conference on LGBT Equality,'' was bound to...
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News Briefs: Left to Right
Queer OWS Hits HRC in New York LGBT grassroots activists calling themselves the Queer Occupy Wall Street Caucus united outside of New York City's Waldorf-Astoria...
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Time To Talk
Whitman-Walker Health kicked off a new series of dialogues Jan. 26 titled ''Community Conversations.'' The first, ''New Year, New Start: Substance Abuse,'' will be followed...
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Virginia Adoption Bill Passed
The Virginia Senate today passed a bill that critics say indirectly bans LGBT people, and potentially other subgroups, from becoming adoptive or foster parents. All...
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Illinois Lawmakers Introduce Marriage Equality Bill, as Washington State’s House Passes Its Bill
While the Washington state House passed a Senate-approved state marriage equality bill that will soon be signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire (D), three...
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News Analysis: How the HHS Contraception Coverage Decision and Marriage Equality Are Related
Today, White House press secretary Jay Carney spent a significant amount of the White House press briefing defending the Health and Human Services Department’s decision...
