News + Politics
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International Arrest
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch have announced an arrest in the 2007 murder of a local lesbian who was found dead in...
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Mount Vernon Victim
A man walking in D.C.'s Mount Vernon Square neighborhood reports that he was robbed at gunpoint Thursday, Sept. 29, by assailants who used an anti-gay...
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Baldwin Pitches Senate Bid, Bloomberg Accepts Ally Award at HRC Dinner
Besides President Obama’s keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign’s 15th annual national dinner, the two key political speeches came from a representative from Wisconsin...
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Obama Touts Administration’s LGBT Accomplishments, Swipes at GOP at HRC Dinner
Tonight, President Barack Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign...
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What Advice Would You Give Obama?
On Saturday, Oct. 1, President Obama will be be giving the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign’s 15th annual national dinner. The speech, HRC...
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Presenting PALS
Two local health organizations specializing in care to the LGBT community are partnering to bring specific services to LGBT seniors. Whitman-Walker Health and Mautner Project:...
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Ninth Circuit Dismisses Log Cabin DADT Challenge As Moot, Vacates Lower Court Decision
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today dismissed the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States appeal as moot, following the end of...
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Trial Judge Rejects DOMA Challenge in Immigration Case, Citing ’82 Appeals Court Ruling
Writing that he was bound by a 1982 appeals court decision whose reasoning the U.S. Department of Justice had argued was “no longer valid today,”...
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Vigil Voices
Nothing reads better than Shakespeare by candlelight. At least, Gaurav Gopalan might have thought so. More than a hundred friends, co-workers and members of the...
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HOME Help
On Sept. 22, members of both chambers of Congress introduced legislation that would extend housing and lending nondiscrimination laws to include protections based on sexual...
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Memory Lanes
Memories are the sorts of things that get easily tangled with the passage of time. Over the past few years, I've spent more time going...
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Right's Populist Fakery
For all the talk of ''what the American people want,'' Republican candidates are pushing a lot of things that polls show most people do not...
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Ward Roulette
Shaw resident William Waybourn lives on 8th Street NW. He also owns Long View Gallery, about three blocks away on 9th Street NW. But under...
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DOMA Is “Becoming Law” in This Week’s Metro Weekly
This week’s article — “Becoming Law” — will be is the conclusion of a four-part series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the...
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Obama Talks Bullying, DOMA and Immigration at White House Roundtable
Today, President Obama talked about bullying and the Defense of Marriage Act over the course of a 50-minute “Open for Questions” roundtable moderated by Jose...
