News + Politics
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New Yorker’s David Remnick takes the Republican candidates to task over the issue of gay rights
In terms of civil rights, in terms of the progress of human decency, one of the clearest political victories of 2011 — a long and...
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Golinski Has Her Day in Court, DOJ Sends Senior Lawyer To Argue DOMA’s Unconstitutionality
The Department of Justice sent one of its top lawyers to federal court in San Francisco today to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act’s...
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Past Imperfect
My life ended on an early December evening in 1987 when one of my fraternity brothers came into my frat-house bedroom and asked me, ''Are...
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Xmas Column
The American Family Association is mad at Banana Republic. They're also mad at Family Dollar and Radio Shack and a handful of others. Seems these...
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Making a Clean Break
Despite a controversial walk-up to the passage of D.C. marriage equality in 2009, a recently introduced bill before the City Council that would permit same-sex...
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Jenkins-Miller Custody Fight Continues
A Virginia man who allegedly helped a woman escape the U.S. with her daughter in order to avoid giving custody of the girl to her...
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Gay soldier booed by Republicans says military has been “awesome about this”
Army Captain Steve Hill appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews tonight to discuss his reaction to being booed by attendees of a Republican Presidential debate....
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Barron Out As GOProud Board Chair, Former CPAC Director De Pasquale Steps In
GOProud co-founder Chris Barron will be stepping down as board of directors chair at the end of the year, according to a news release issued...
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West Virginia Education Board OKs LGBT-Inclusive Anti-Bullying Policy
One week after the U.S. Department of Education released a report detailing state policies on bullying, the West Virginia Board of Education took action to...
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Mitt Romney makes his view crystal clear on gay marriage (as though he needed to)
“No, actually, I think at the time the Constitution was written it was pretty clear that marriage is between a man and a woman. And...
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An Outing — Or Not
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's ''Strong'' presidential primary advertisement, which has more than...
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Defense Bill Conference Report Strips Anti-Gay House Language, Keeps Military Sodomy Ban
Following the report that the House and Senate conferees had reached a compromise on the National Defense Authorization Act, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced this...
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Andrew Breitbart resigns from board of GOProud over “outing” of Perry campaign strategist
“It is with sincere regret that I announce I must step down as a GOProud advisory member. On numerous occasions I have spoken with [GOProud...
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Rick Perry heckled at Iowa coffee shop
“Why are you demonizing gay and lesbian people?” An unidentified heckler at an Iowa coffee shop following remarks by Governor Rick Perry. Perry is airing...
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Office Depot among 207 companies that include gender reassignment surgery in health insurance plans
“Realistically, we just looked at it as a necessity. Our executive V.P. said, ‘It’s the right thing to do, it’s something we support and we...
