News + Politics
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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,...
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Jordan Says Conservative Caucus Will Push D.C. Marriage Ban; LCR, HRC Push Back
This morning, The Hill reported that the chairman of the influential conservative Republican Study Committee, which boasts 175 members, plans to introduce legislation “that would...
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A Modest Step, Some Sharp Complaints
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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Doritos’ gay Superbowl ads? Funny contest entries not considered finalists
”What’s funnier than a man making eyes at another man? What’s funnier than hapless homosexual males guessing that a straight guy is interested in them?...
