News + Politics
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Facing Hate
Washington saw 68 reported hate crimes in 2010, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. But those are just the ones they know of. Twenty-five of...
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We Go On
I'm sure every generation believes that its own time is the scariest time to be alive — from Depression babies to World War II to...
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Radical Divisions
I supported Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) long before his stirring testimony at Rep. Peter King's (R-N.Y.) McCarthy-style anti-Muslim hearings last week. Ellison, the first Muslim...
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Awaiting Endorsement
On March 10, the White House held a conference dedicated to discussing bullying prevention and sharing ideas and strategies for combating the crisis. Despite the...
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Stein Backs Biddle
Town Danceboutique, near the U Street corridor, doesn't usually draw a crowd on a Monday night. But on March 14 about a hundred people –...
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Net Gain
Ahead of its 34th Anniversary Celebration May 21, the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights has announced the recipients of its 2011 awards and...
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Hank's Loses CommonWealth Cousin
For about two years, Jamie Leeds's CommonWealth ''gastropub'' offered up roasts, pints and Scotch eggs in a Columbia Heights setting fit for a Brit. But...
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May 9 Set As Hearing Date Showdown Between DOJ and House GOP Lawyers in Windsor DOMA Case
The Republican House leadership’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, discussed earlier today here, just got a lot more concrete. They will be facing...
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As House GOP Fights to Defend DOMA, Democrats Start Push for Repeal Measure
The decision of the House Republican leadership on March 9 to authorize the House counsel’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in court prompted...
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Maryland Transgender Activist Exonerated of All Ethics Charges, Seeks Apology from Montgomery County
It was in the fall of 2007 that Maryland’s Montgomery County passed a bill that protects citizens from discrimination in areas such as housing, employment,...
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Community Debates Gender Identity Bill
The exclusion of a public accommodations provision from a Maryland bill aimed at ending transgender discrimination has led one group of LGBT activists, Trans Maryland,...
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Oetken, Out Gay Nominee, “Unanimously Qualified” for N.Y. Federal Judgeship, ABA Panel Says
J. Paul Oetken, the out gay New York attorney who was nominated by President Barack Obama for a federal judicial appointment in late January, told...
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Another anti-gay iTunes app: ‘Ex-gay’ Exodus fears Apple will ‘censor’
”We saw the app as another opportunity to reach the world — to reach a larger demographic with our message…. And based on a small...
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Gay Senator, Co-Author of Maryland Marriage Bill Says “Fight Not Over”
Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery), the only out gay member of Maryland’s Senate, who introduced the marriage legislation in the Senate with Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery),...
