News + Politics
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Maryland GOP Delegate Holds Up Gender Identity Bill, Says She Needs Definition of “Transgender”
A bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing, employment, licensing and commercial leasing against transgender Marylanders was scheduled to be voted on...
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DADT Discharges for Fiscal Year 2010: 261
Despite the passage of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act in December 2010, numbers released today about discharges under the law in the year...
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Remembering Taylor's D.C. Contributions
Elizabeth Taylor was across the ocean, consoling Michael Jackson in Europe in 1993 just days before the Whitman-Walker Clinic ceremony dedicating its facility at 1701...
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Ninth Circuit Denies Request to Vacate Stay, Keeps Prop 8 in Effect During Appeal
In a brief order issued today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the plaintiffs’ request to vacate its earlier stay order,...
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Maryland Gender Identity Bill Moves Ahead
A bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing, employment, licensing and commercial leasing, against transgender Marylanders, just passed its first hurdle,...
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Whitman-Walker Clinic releases statement on the passing of Elizabeth Taylor
“Elizabeth Taylor was the first major Hollywood star to take up the banner of HIV/AIDS activism. At a time when most Americans thought of HIV/AIDS...
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AQUA's New Board
Washington's gay Asian group, AQUA, welcomed its new board of directors last weekend with its first potluck for the new term. ''We have the whole...
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DOJ's New Scrutiny
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's report on its ''Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department,'' which was released on March 16, detailed serious...
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Star Trek’s George Takei blasts anti-gay iPhone app
”Thx Tweeps for helping get the homophobic Exodus app pulled today. Full power to forward shields!” Actor and gay rights activist George Takei, thanking his...
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“Ex-gay” Exodus app vanishes from Apple iTunes store
“Apple made a wise and responsible decision to dump an offensive app that demonized gay and lesbian people…. The real winners today are LGBT youth...
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Making Things Better
These days when we think of the phrase ''it gets better,'' we think of recent efforts to give hope to LGBT youth that as they...
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DOMA’s Dwindling Defenders — in Congress and Across the Country
On March 3, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri, introduced a resolution purporting to “demand that the Department of Justice continue to defend the...
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White House Spokesman: Ending Anti-LGBT Violence a “Critical Issue”
Following up on the earlier news regarding the desire of the U.S. and Brazil to create a Special Rapporteur for LGBT issues at the Organization...
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Disco’s most powerful voice, Loleatta Holloway, dies at 64 [video]
”Another Legendary Angel Loleatta Holloway Gone to soon Rest in Peace Sweet Loleatta..RR” Note left on Twitter from Ron Richardson who the LA Times credits...
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Center to Move Again
David Mariner, executive director of The Center, announced today, March 22, that the organization is expecting to vacate its current space at 1318 U St.,...
