News + Politics
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Forty-Four Years Back, Loving … Forward
On June 12, 2011, residents of and visitors to Washington, D.C., celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride at the Capital Pride Festival. Less than...
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Tina Fey comments on Tracy Morgan’s offensive gay remarks
Tina Fey, star and creator of NBC’s ”30 Rock,” released a statement about concerning Tracy Morgan’s rant against gay people. It’s reported that he said...
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Rachel Maddow looks at Gov. Rick Perry’s ties to anti-gay organizations [video]
On Friday, MSNBC Rachel Maddow explored the possibility that Texas Governor Rick Perry will enter the race to become the Republican candidate for President of...
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CNN exposes George Rekers’ harmful ‘therapy’ to change gays to straights [video]
This week, Anderson Cooper explored the anti-gay work of George Rekers, who has made a career of promoting the idea that homosexuality and “sissy boy” behavior...
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House GOP Leadership Defends “Traditional” Marriage From Being “Radically Redefined”
On June 3, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group — the three Republican members — filed a motion to dismiss Karen Golinski’s lawsuit seeking equal...
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Morgan Offends With Anti-Gay Talk, Publicist Releases Statement of Apology
As noted at Truth Wins Out, comedian Tracy Morgan, in a recent stand-up routine, made some comments about gay people that led an audience member...
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DADT's Six-Month Mark
On Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act into law. Despite the almost six months that have passed...
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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...
