News + Politics
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Explaining the HIV Military Provision, With Facts
To quote Maria, “Let’s start at the very beginning.” In 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.) was in Congress. The National Defense Authorization Act for 1996...
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Twenty-Four Hours Without DADT
For more than 24 hours, the United States has been constrained from enforcing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although CNN is reporting that...
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Mourning at Howard [Updated]
Adding to the troubling series of recent suicides by young LGBT or questioning people, seemingly as a result of bullying, another young person has taken...
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Generation Last
Carl Paladino really is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving, a politician whose every apology leads to another apology in a recursive loop that...
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Pumped to Race
Organizers of the 24th annual High Heel Race, set for Tuesday, Oct. 26, are asking for three things: One, they need volunteers. Two, they want...
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Acquiescent Accomplices
In one of the blunter responses to the recent spate of student suicides, comedian Sarah Silverman said by video, ''Dear America: When you tell gay...
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No Place Safe
Ben Carver is not talking to the press. But in a nearly 1,700-word Oct. 5 blog post on BenCarver.com, the D.C. resident describes how he...
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Sentinels Score
Basketball players from across the country – more than 200 – will descend on Washington this weekend for Capital City Classic II, D.C.'s second biennial...
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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...
