News + Politics
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Dire Straits song using gay slur is too offensive to air says Canadian Broadcast Standards … 25 years later
The little faggot with the earring and the makeupYeah buddy, that’s his own hair.The little faggot got his own jet airplane.The little faggot, he’s a...
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DOJ Files DOMA Defense in First Circuit Cases
Today, the Department of Justice filed its defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in...
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Washington, DC only the 8th “gayest city in America” says Advocate
”In the past few years, D.C. has been loosening its tie and doffing the boring blue blazer…. The gay center of the city has migrated...
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Obama: We must “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”
President Barack Obama tonight addressed Arizona — and the nation — at a memorial event held in the wake of the mass-shooting that killed six...
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Gay-hating Westboro Church won’t protest 9-year-old girl’s Tucson funeral in exchange for radio air time
”It’s how many ears we can reach…. That is our job, that is our goal…. This trip is off. That doesn’t mean a future trip...
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CREW Seeks Ethics Investigation Following Swearing-In Snafu
Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed papers with the Office of Congressional Ethics seeking an investigation into what it claims are constitutional,...
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Johnny Weir tells Howard Stern about gay sex life, why he ignores insults
”There’s a huge population of gay people in figure skating, but I’d say it’s this same percentage as football. You’d be surprised by how many...
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Ricky Martin video focuses on equality, diversity [video]
”You = Me” The theme running through singer Ricky Martin‘s latest video for ”The Best Thing About Me Is You.” One affectionate male couple is...
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Stephanie Seymour’s gay son says smoochy pics with mom are ‘out of context’
”I would just like to say that these pictures have been taken completely out of context, my mother and i are very close as she...
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Sticks and Stones
''Words can never hurt me.'' That's one of the comforting lies we learn in childhood, along with ''cheaters never win,'' ''you can be whatever you...
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Passing Blame
It's hard to think about much this week aside from the Tucson shootings, but I didn't think my column would have anything to do with...
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The Silent ''T''
''LGBT.'' The ''T'' is silent. No sooner did the gavel make contact with the podium repealing DADT than our national organizations were talking up marriage...
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Tragedy Strikes Tucson
For updates to this story, visit Metro Weekly's Poliglot blog.''When I heard the gunshots and I heard someone yell 'gun,' my first concern was making...
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Budd's Cancer Battle
The doctors didn't lie to Earline Budd. The Oct. 25 surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital to treat the colon cancer Budd was diagnosed with in...
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Seat Taken
The D.C. Democratic State Committee elected, on Jan. 6, School Board member Sekou Biddle to fill the At-Large City Council seat left by Kwame Brown,...
