News + Politics
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Queer Activists Wants Sachs Sacked, But HRC Highlights CEO in Marriage Ad
LGBT grassroots activists, calling themselves the Queer Occupy Wall...
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Ninth Circuit Prop 8 Ruling on Tuesday — A Guide to Understanding What’s Happening
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
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CNN’s Roland Martin says sorry some were offended, tweets were just “playful shot” at soccer fans
CNN’s Roland Martin responded to criticism regarding his Superbowl tweets this morning, saying he is sorry if people were offended and that they were just...
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From Partner Benefits to Affirmative Action, Proposed Contractor Executive Order Specifics Discussed
With the senior policy advisor for Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) telling Metro Weekly on Feb. 4 that timing is key for President Obama to take...
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Madonna’s Superbowl half-time has fans and critics all a Twitter [video]
Madonna‘s Superbowl Half-Time Show was all the rage on Twitter and Facebook Sunday night. Opening with her gay dance anthem “Vogue,” Madonna covered a number...
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CNN’s Roland Martin wants to smack any “dude … hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad”
Tonight’s Madonna half-time show at the Superbowl got a significant amount of attention from her dedicated gay fans, but it was CNN commentator Roland Martin‘s...
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Advocates Lay Out Case for Obama Contractor Executive Order in Memo to Rep. Barney Frank
Although the White House remains silent about the status of a proposed executive order to ban LGBT discrimination among federal contractors, some of D.C.’s leading...
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Virginia Anti-Gay Adoption Bill Could Cost State Taxpayers Millions
Today, the Virginia legislature took two steps toward passing a bill allowing private adoption agencies to refuse adopting to same-sex couples based on “religious or...
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PFOX Pushes Student Outreach
Parents of students at Kensington's Albert Einstein High School got a surprise along with their children's report cards, Feb 1. Typically, individual public schools will...
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Transgender Woman Killed [UPDATED]
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the death of a transgender woman who was stabbed yesterday at a bus stop in the District's Benning Heights...
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GLAAD “Standing Up” for Ellen’s Job; Freedom to Work Celebrates DynCorp Policy Change
One Million Moms, a project of the the American Family Association, called upon JC Penny to fire talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres after...
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News Analysis: Post Poll Shows Marylanders Split on Marriage Equality, Supporters Looking for Votes
Just as a recent Washington Post poll shows for the first time that a majority of Marylanders support marriage equality, LGBT activists and their allies...
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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Says Prop 8 Tapes Should Not Be Released, “Assurances” Given at Trial
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled today that the videotape of the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8 — Perry...
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Solitary Confinement
After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...
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Dissing the President
''Get your goddamn finger out of the president's face.'' That was my first thought upon seeing the photo of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) with...
