News + Politics
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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...
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Digging In to the DADT Report: Stats and Scribd!
Once I got home this evening, I began digging in to the nitty-gritty details of the 256-page Pentagon working group report on implementing a repeal...
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Illinois House Passes Civil Unions Bill
From the Chicago Tribune this evening: SPRINGFIELD — Civil unions would be allowed in Illinois beginning next year for same-sex couples under legislation the House...
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Obama Calls on Senate to Act to Repeal DADT “As Soon As Possible”
In a statement just released by the White House, President Barack Obama commented on today’s release of the Pentagon working group report regarding “Don’t Ask,...
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Breaking: Pentagon DADT Report
UPDATE: Expanded coverage on the release of today's report.The Pentagon today released its long-awaited ''Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a...
