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House General Counsel Opposes Recording of Golinski DOMA Challenge
In Karen Golinski’s challenge to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, House general counsel Kerry Kircher signed a filing stating that the House’s...
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Eyes on North Carolina, As State Senate Considers Marriage Amendment
This weekend brought news that the consideration of a marriage amendment in North Carolina would be coming this week. From the Associated Press: A Senate...
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Going Public with Anti-Trans Attacks (UPDATED)
Metropolitan Police Department officials held a news conference Monday afternoon, Sept. 12, to ask the press and public for help in the death investigation of...
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Trans Woman Found Dead in Columbia Heights
[UPDATE: Metro Weekly received a Metropolitan Police Department email at 5:59 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, identifying the victim as Gaurav Gopolan, 35. For further developments,...
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NAACP Joins Maryland Marriage Fight
The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has become the latest organization to join the umbrella organization Marylanders...
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HIV/AIDS Nonprofit Head Insults Gay Councilmembers
The director of an HIV/AIDS nonprofit – now being sued by D.C.'s attorney general for allegedly diverting more than $300,000 in city funds intended for...
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No Perfect Union
Every writer looks back and cringes at some of their past work — what seemed clear at the time is clunky in retrospect, what was...
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Answering the Call
As America prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, emotions may run high. Many in the D.C. area have memories...
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Joy Behar says gay couples’ legal needs influenced her surprise marriage decision [video]
“Last year, I talked about this gay couple that I know — women. And one of them was very ill. In fact, she passed away....
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Critical Court
California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin asked the lead counsel seeking to overturn the state's 2008 initiative amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex couples...
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Ninth Circuit Keeps Arizona Law Ending Same-Sex Partner Health Benefits on Hold
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today affirmed a district court decision keeping an Arizona state law from going into effect that,...
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DOJ Argues DOMA’s Unconstitutionality Holds, Even in Immigration Context
To follow up on Metro Weekly‘s report, “Defending DOMA, Fighting Back,” about the Department of Justice filing on Friday, Sept. 2, in a challenge to...
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Proposition 8 in Court: California Supreme Court Certified Question Argument FAQ
At 10 a.m. Pacific Time, the California Supreme Court is to hear oral arguments in its attempt to answer the certified question about the specifics...
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Trial Date Set for Columbia Heights Altercation
Two brothers accused of attacking a group of lesbians in Columbia Heights in July appeared in D.C. Superior Court this morning for a preliminary hearing....
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Defending DOMA, Fighting Back
Hamdi Lui and Michael Ernest Roberts, a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts but living in California, brought a case aimed at keeping Lui – a...
