News + Politics
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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...
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Super Heroes
While every community has heroes, D.C.'s LGBT community has an abundance. And Capital Pride will honor just a few during this year's festivities with its...
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Lady Gaga says song ‘Born This Way’ not that gay; Stephen Fry ponders bipolar suicide
Lady Gaga recently sat for an interview with gay actor and speaker Steven Fry. When asked if the song “Born This Way” was an affirmation...
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Airman Discharged
An Air Force spokesman confirmed today that the secretary of the Air Force approved a discharge under the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy on...
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News Judgment
It's one of the most obvious and oft-repeated truisms of the day that the news business is a wildly different beast than it was two...
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Global Grassroots
Although I'm writing this on Memorial Day, Monday will be a distant news-cycle memory come Thursday's publication. That does not stop me, however, from considering...
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Winning the Future, LGBT-Style
The Obama administration — ever eager to advance its 2011 theme of “winning the future” — has now extended the three-word slogan to lesbian, gay,...
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Rowland Cancels Appearance
Michael Lutz, executive director of Capital Pride, announced today the Kelly Rowland has pulled out of her scheduled headlining performance on the Capital Pride Festival...
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Equality Maryland Board President Resigns, as Interim ED’s Focus Shifts
Last week Equality Maryland announced that it is currently in the midst of a financial crisis, and that it needs about $25,000 a month to...
