News + Politics
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Chiefs Provide DADT Testimony
Although the second day of Senate hearings into the Pentagon working group's report on implementation of a repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' brought some...
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After DADT Hearings, White House Meets With Repeal Groups
[Photo: Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) at Friday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing regarding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A...
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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....
