News + Politics
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ENDA Protest in Vegas Under Way
Get Equal is starting off Netroots Nation … with a protest! Challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the activists...
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Kagan: Up for a Vote … and on to the Full Senate
The Judiciary Committee voted in support of the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice John...
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Oklahoma’s first transgender candidate takes on the notorious Sally Kern
“I fully anticipate someone will try to make it an issue…but I want to be a representative, and I don’t want to let the fact...
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An International Place for LGBT Equality
Some major action toward international engagement on LGBT issues today, with a nod from President Obama — as the White House Broadway night was set...
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The Domino Theory and the Ex-Gay Movement
It hasn’t been that long since anti-gay activist George Rekers put “lifting my luggage” into the American dictionary of hypocritical sexual innuendo by taking a...
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The Great White Way Makes Its Way to the White House
The President and First Lady Michelle Obama will be continuing the White House Music Series in the East Room this evening with a salute to...
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Parenting Questions
Andrea Peyser's scathing New York Post review of The Kids Are All Right – titled '''The Kids' are not all right'' – attempts to dismiss...
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With West Virginia Senate Pick, DADT Is On Their Minds
Carte Goodwin (law firm bio here), the former general counsel to West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D), is set to be the pick of his...
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DC Court of Appeals Upholds Decision Denying Marriage Initiative
The D.C. Court of Appeals issued its awaited decision in Bishop Harry Jackson’s appeal of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics’s decision that his...
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Dismissals Explained
Lt. Dan Choi and James Pietrangelo didn't break the law they had been charged with breaking, and it is for that reason, according to a...
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Army had comic book to explain “homosexual conduct” and “Don’t Ask” policy?
”This is a story about homosexual conduct…. ‘Sir, Sergeants Hall and Johnson came to see me. They apparently witnessed a homosexual act involving PFC Howard...
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After Dismissal, Questions Remain — And Get Equal Makes a Move on ENDA
Although the charges were dismissed against Lt. Dan Choi and James Pietrangelo on Wednesday morning (as Metro Weekly‘s Yusef Najafi reports here), questions remained about...
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Kathy Griffin: “It would have looked ridiculous” if she had joined Dan Choi’s “surprise” protest
Choi and Griffin at Freedom Plaza ”Surprise! He kind of sprung that on me. Yeah, that’s me with the frozen smile. So, what do I...
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Charges Dismissed
Lt. Dan Choi and former Capt. James E. Pietrangelo II walked inside a D.C. Superior Courtroom on a rainy, humid, Tuesday morning, prepared for trial....
