News + Politics
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News Analysis: DOJ’s Historic Brief
DRAFT – DO NOT PUBLISH The Department of Justice’s July 1 “Defendants’ Brief in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss” in Karen Golinski’s lawsuit seeking...
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DOJ: Court Should Not Dismiss Karen Golinski’s Health Benefits Claim, Should Instead Find DOMA Unconstitutional
Today, the Department of Justice filed a brief in federal court employee Karen Golinski’s federal court challenge, supporting her lawsuit seeking access to equal health...
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The Obama Twitter Town Hall: #AskObama
News from the White House today in advance of next week’s planned “Twitter Town Hall.” From the advisory: WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama will participate...
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Hannah Arrested, Again
''I'm going to kill her when I get out.'' Those were the words of Robert Hannah on June 19, according to a Metropolitan Police Department...
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Holcomb Gets 50 years
A D.C. Superior Court judge sentenced Antwan Holcomb, 21, to 50 years behind bars for the first-degree murder of Anthony Perkins, a gay D.C. resident,...
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Obama: “I’ve met my commitments to the LGBT community.”
At the White House LGBT Pride Month Reception this afternoon, President Barack Obama only made one real news announcement — telling the mostly white, mostly...
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Obama Talks Marriage — on His Terms — Saying, “I’m Not Gonna Make News on That Today.”
At the presidential...
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HHS Announces Plans for LGBT Health Data Collection
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to include sexual orientation and gender identity in health data collection, a result of...
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Closet Space
For many of us, the issues that touch our daily lives are the issues about which we care the most. It's certainly a reason that...
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It's a Smaller World
Mark my words: I'll never be visiting Saudi Arabia. Unless of course I'm invited to take part in some debate I'll hypothetically title, ''Homosexuality: Gift...
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Two-Year Trial
Nearly two years after being unlawfully arrested for saying ''I hate the police'' on a D.C. street within earshot of a Metropolitan Police Department officer,...
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Coiffure That Cares
About 65 people attended ''Wig Aid Live'' on Saturday, June 25, at Town Danceboutique, raising more than $2,000 for the Wanda Alston House. ''I think...
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Obama Nominates Out Gay Magistrate Backed by GOP Senators for Texas U.S. Attorney Spot
Robert Lee Pitman, an out gay magistrate judge in the Western District of Texas, was nominated today by President Barack Obama to serve as the...
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Get Equal to Ask White House Pride Reception Attendees to Go on a “Scavenger Hunt”
On Wednesday, June 29, President Barack Obama and the First Lady are due to host the LGBT Pride Month Reception at the White House. Today,...
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What New York Wrought
Days after the New...
