News + Politics
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Season of Discontent
Way back in the early summer of 1992, I spent many of my young activist days hanging out in the ACT-UP DC office where things...
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Marriage Wars
Part Two of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act ''Given your stated and longstanding opposition to...
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Maryland Marriage Coalition
LGBT rights organizations joined forces at Baltimore City Hall on Tuesday, July 12, to launch Marylanders for Marriage Equality, a coalition that seeks to secure...
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Lawsuit Settled
This week, Sean Bugg, president of Jansi LLC, publisher of Metro Weekly, confirmed that Jansi, along with Isosceles Publishing Inc. and Randy Shulman, reached a...
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Community Needs
Transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming people in D.C. have serious concerns about their safety, are severely underemployed, and face major difficulties accessing adequate healthcare according...
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Last Throes
The U.S. Court of Appeals that recently halted enforcement of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' is asking who – if anyone – is left actually defending...
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Ninth Circuit Orders DOJ to Address Claim Regarding Lesbian’s Exclusion From Jury
Since mid-February, the government’s approach to laws or government practices that classify people based on their sexual orientation has changed significantly. The impact of that...
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New York town clerk goes “no homo,” resigns rather than issue marriage licenses to gays
With the July 21 debut of marriage equality in New York, plenty of gay and lesbian couples are getting ready to tie the knot. But...
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Parental Guidance
The United Church of Christ (UCC), the denomination to which President Barack Obama belonged for two decades, resoundingly approved two resolutions on July 5 in...
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Coalition of Organizations to Launch Maryland Marriage Equality Campaign
Equal rights organizations are joining forces today at 11 a.m. at Baltimore City Hall to launch a coalition that seeks to secure marriage equality in...
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Ninth Circuit Says It “Appears” Government Is Not Defending DADT in LCR Case Appeal
In an order from the clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today, the court followed up on the three-judge panel’s...
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Citing DOJ’s “Nationwide Effect” Given to Bankruptcy Decision, Gay Couple OKs Ending Appeal
Today, in a bankruptcy court filing in Los Angeles, lawyers for a married gay couple seeking to file a joint bankruptcy petition claimed victory, following...
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Moratorium Issued on DADT Discharges; No Decision on Appeal
The Pentagon has stopped all enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in a memorandum issued to military branch secretaries dated today, following a July 6...
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Leahy Sets DOMA Hearing for Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced today — in his role as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — that, “in the coming weeks, the Committee...
