News + Politics
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Elton John’s gay family photo hidden by supermarket to “protect” children
”In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When...
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The gay sports gap: NFL’s Esera Tuaolo, writer Steve Buckley on ESPN after lesbian coach controversy [video]
Newly out sportswriter Steve Buckley and retired football player Esera Tuaolo spoke about the continued suppression of gay male and lesbian visibility in sports today....
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Pentagon Plans Friday News Conference on DADT Repeal Implementation
In response to an inquiry, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to Metro Weekly that the Pentagon has a news conference planned for Friday, Jan. 28, to...
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Obama Nominates Oetken for N.Y. Federal Court Spot
Today, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of J. Paul Oetken to serve as a U.S. District Court judge on the Southern District of New...
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Obama Names Achtenberg to U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Levi to Health Advisory Group
Today, President Barack Obama announced that he had named Roberta Achtenberg to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Although Achtenberg has a long resume and list...
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Great Expectations
Because I've been doing this long enough, I tend to approach annual political events like the State of the Union speech as a bit of...
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Choosing Choice
When I look at, say, the slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan I think it's disgusting and barbaric. Despite my offense, I have...
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Montoya's New Post
In one way of looking at it, HIV may have saved Daniel Montoya's life. At least, that's how Montoya puts it. In 1987, Montoya, who...
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Star Trek’s Brannon Braga: Gay squeamishness due to ‘family show’ time slot
”It was a shame for a lot of us that…. There were people who felt very strongly that we should be showing casually, you know,...
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Tea, the high school lesbian, main focus of MTV ‘Skins: Episode 2’
”You want to know what we do, right? ‘What goes where? Who licks what?’ So tedious. I screw girls — so what? And only the...
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TV preacher Joel Osteen expands his history of anti-gay rhetoric: ‘It’s a sin’ [video]
‘Yes, I’ve always believed, Pierce, that scripture shows that it’s a sin. But...
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Obama to Say Open Gay Service “Starting This Year” at SOTU
In 2010, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to use the State of the Union to declare that he would “work with Congress and our...
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NGLTF’s Carey: Obama should “include our lives, our families in the same way he talks of the lives of others”
Following Monday’s lowered expectations from the Human Rights Campaign for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union adress tonight, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...
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Former RNC Online Comm Director Teams Up With GOProud
She’s no Andrew Breitbart — a good thing to some — but Liz Mair is the former online communications director at the Republican National Committee...
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Maryland Gets Marriage Bill
A group of about 50 activists, couples and legislators stood together in the Joint Hearing Room of Maryland's Legislative Services Building in Annapolis this morning,...
