News + Politics
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Stein Offers Awards
There's certainly cause to celebrate, says Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Jeffrey Richardson of the group's upcoming annual awards reception on Oct. 28. ''We're really...
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Maddow: Anti-gay ‘culture war’ campaigns used by Tea Party’s DeMint, Paladino, Angle, O’Donnell, others [video]
”We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. ”I did not march in...
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News Analysis: What Is DOJ Thinking?
I’m going to try and avoid going too deep into the woods tonight — because it’s late and because I’m tired — but I have...
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BREAKING, PART 2: DOJ TO APPEAL DOMA DECISIONS
In a move expected by most legal observers, the U.S. Department of Justice this afternoon filed notices...
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BREAKING: DADT IS SUSPENDED
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips has suspended enforcement of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
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Wash Post “On Faith” Op-Ed: “Homosexual Movement” May Be to Blame for Suicides
From the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins: “Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal–yet they have been told by the homosexual...
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Twelve Years Ago, Lessons for Today
On the evening of October 11, 1998, NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling began telling a story on All Things Considered that would become a part of the...
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Anderson Cooper criticizes negative use of ‘Gay’ in ‘The Dilemma’ movie [video]
”Ladies and gentleman, electric cars are gay. I mean, not homosexual ‘gay,’ but my parents are chaperoning the high school dance ‘gay.”’ Opening line read...
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Dan Savage’s 3-week-old video experiment for gay teens is a big success [video]
”Honest to God, we put up our video and thought ‘Are we going to be the only ones?‘ … I get invitations to talk at...
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‘Dr. Phil’ examines Clementi suicide: Tells gay teens ‘I’m so sorry’ adults tolerate bullying [video]
”I want to say to all of y’all, on behalf of all the adults who seem to be running this society: I am so sorry....
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Stating the “State of Play”
More than 10 hours of interview time covering interviews with the leaders of 15 LGBT organizations that have a national scope or impact. One magazine...
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“Queers” and “Legislative Fruitloops” in North Carolina
Equality North Carolina recently announced plans to recognize statehouse Speaker Joe Hackney (D) by giving him an award at its Equality Gala later this year....
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Getting Better
The first time I wanted to kill myself was eighth grade. The incident leading up to that was a rather convoluted one, but the short...
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Bully Beware
My first bully was Michael Dickerson. Standing in line after recess, on the playground of Rolling Valley Elementary School in Springfield, he came out of...
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The White Knight
The ''sexual racism'' argument used by some gay people of color in order to shame white males (and yes, it is always white males) into...
