News + Politics
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Rhianna returns to sex theme with video for ‘S&M’ [video]
”I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.Sex in the air, I don’t care, I love the smell of it.Sticks and stones may...
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Do heteros need a proximity detector? Gay hook-up service, Grindr, aims to find out
”It shows the whole range of gay men…. They just want to hook up…. I don’t know that that’s going to work for girls. They...
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Anne Rice tells gay son, Christopher: My 12-year study showed Catholic Church ‘was dishonorable, dishonest… immoral’ [video]
”That was a Catholic who wrote to me. She is very upset that I left the Catholic Church, and she writes e-mail after e-mail, and...
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Activist: Ferguson’s Sketch Only Funny If “Transgender People [Are] a Human Punchline”
Following up on the Metro Weekly post about Craig Ferguson’s Feb. 4 sketch featuring his “half-sister” — played by a man and named “Peg” —...
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UK court finds Ugandan woman not a lesbian, denies her asylum
”I find that the Appellant was not and is not, on the evidence before me, a lesbian. ”er credibility is affected by her conduct. l...
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CBS’s Craig Ferguson Sketch Mocks Trans “Character”
Tonight, the night after the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality released a report about the widespread prevalence of...
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Kittleman Stands Alone
As marriage equality takes center stage among Maryland lawmakers, state Sen. Allan H. Kittleman (R-Carroll, Howard) garnered attention first for announcing that he would be...
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Prop 8 Decision Could Come Next Week, Chief Justice Says
The Los Angeles Times reports today on a Wednesday interview with the new California Supreme Court Chief Justice, in which she says the decision whether...
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Obama Talks Faith Inside, Get Equal Protests The Family Outside
This morning, President Barack Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event sponsored by The Fellowship — also known as The Family, where he...
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Word Play
Being the good uncles I imagine us to be, my husband and I took our 10-year-old nephew out to dinner at the mall this past...
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Bravery in Black
An extraordinary display of gay courage and determination comes to us from Mukono, Uganda, thanks to a YouTube video of last Friday's funeral for murdered...
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Working for Change
As the Obama administration releases new details on ending ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' and the president continues his public evolution on the vital issue of...
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Appointments for Equality
In a trio of nominations or appointments this past week, the Obama administration gave a nod to many corners of the struggle for LGBT equality...
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Call for Action
The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), an organization dedicated to the needs of LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 21 in the D.C. area, is...
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Pager Problems
Mayor Vince Gray's Office of GLBT Affairs made its first public announcement under the new leadership of Jeffrey Richardson this week, sharing the Metropolitan Police...
