News + Politics
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True Sage
Caleb Laieski is determined. On Wednesday night, June 1, Laieski sat at a Dupont Circle coffee shop reviewing the day's meetings. It would have been...
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Community Spirits
I've never been asked our stalwart Coverboy question, ''What position do you play in the big baseball game of life?'' But, in case you were...
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Tales of Survival
June 5 marked the 30th anniversary of the first report of what became known as AIDS, when the Centers for Disease Control described cases of...
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History of Pride
Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...
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To Remember and Renew
During the first three decades of HIV and AIDS, more than 575,000 Americans lost their lives. This week, as we mark the 30th anniversary of...
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White House Sidesteps Deportation Moratorium, Favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Asked today to explain the difference between a 2009 moratorium on deporting certain widows and widowers of U.S. citizens and the White House’s failure to...
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Fired Equality Maryland ED Hired at Pride at Work
Pride at Work, a nonprofit labor organization that is the official LGBT constituency group for the AFL-CIO, announced today that Morgan Meneses-Sheets has been hired...
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California corrections officer denied, then allowed to march in gay pride parade
”It’s important to him because he’s not ashamed of being gay…. He just wants to be treated equally. It’s just really about equality….He wants to...
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Syrian ‘Gay Girl’ blogger arrested? Or is she another ‘LonelyGirl?’
A well-known blog called “A Gay Girl in Damascus” reports that its author, Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, has been arrested (NY Daily News): Earlier...
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Box Turtle Bulletin, CNN Expose Flawed Early Treatment and Writing By George Rekers
On June 7, Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin — the same blog that has led the country in its coverage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill...
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Romney Supports Employment Equality, Opposes Marriage for Gays
Tonight, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) — a leading potential 2012 Republican challenger to President Barack Obama — was on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight....
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Grassroots Growth in Maryland
Equality Maryland has served as Maryland's LGBT-advocacy organization for more than two decades, launched in 1990 as Free State Justice. Today, the group is facing...
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Maryland Deal Declined
Darrell Carrington, an at-large board member of Equality Maryland Inc., the lobbying arm of Equality Maryland, met with other board members of the organization on...
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30 Years Later
It's been 30 years since HIV and AIDS first emerged in America. To mark that sad anniversary, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is...
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Air Force Spokesman: “The Airman 1st Class made a statement that he was a homosexual.”
An Air Force spokesman told reporters that the April 29 discharge of an Airman under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the first such discharge since...
