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Lieberman Says DADT Repeal Bill Has the Votes, Scott Brown Supports Repeal
[Photo: Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) talk to Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the first of two days of hearings held Dec....
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DNC’s LGBT Lead Talks About DADT Repeal Efforts
Earlier this week, some questions were raised about a petition request sent out by Organizing for America — the former Obama for America entity —...
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Military v. McCain
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who in February told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his personal opinion was...
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GOP Senators United for Tax Cuts, DADT Repeal Hangs in Balance
In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), all 42 Republican senators have written, “e write to inform you that we will...
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Tony Perkins hates when his gay-hating Family Research Council is called a ‘hate group’ [video]
”The Southern Poverty Law Center is a massively funded liberal organization that operates under a veneer of public justice when, in fact, they seem more...
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Déjà View
I was still a fresh-faced newcomer to D.C. 21 years ago when the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy erupted in Congress and the Corcoran museum. The famed...
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The real Phillip Morris loves movie about his life with a gay con man
”Ewan’s portrayal of me is just magnificent. He has my mannerisms, my voice down. Just the fact that he came to Arkansas and spent time...
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Fear Not
It's time for either a little hand holding or berating. But which? I've always been sympathetic to people's fears, hoping to comfort them and help...
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Awarding the Organizers
Where there's a rally, a protest, or signature drive for marriage equality, there's an organizer. Two years ago, the D.C.-based New Organizing Institute (NOI) noticed...
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Safety Monitor
''D.C. is one of the few handful of jurisdictions that has no anti-bullying legislation at all,'' says Alison Gill, public policy associate of the Gay...
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Piece of the Pie
Food and Friends sold more than 5,600 pies this year during its fourth annual ''Slice of Life'' fundraiser Slice of Life, raising more than $200,000....
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DC declares hi-tech gay marriage invalid: Skype can’t be used by Texas couple
”I think it’s interesting they didn’t contact me or contact the couple…. The law is really kind of ambiguous. It doesn’t say all parties have to...
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Johnny Depp revealing which of his movie characters are gay?
”I think it was Michael Eisner, the head of Disney at the time, who was quoted as saying, ‘He’s ruining the movie [Pirates of the...
