News + Politics
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Learning Experiences
I am terrified to write about transgender issues. That's not an easy thing for me to admit, given my own self-image as a writer who's...
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Gut Check
Initially, I was going to use this opportunity to recount my July 4 exercise in acquiescence – filling out my juror application for federal court....
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Show, Don't Tell
Tyrese loves roller coasters. He goes to Adventure Park USA from open to close, every weekend. And he does it all alone. Tyrese is gay,...
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Surveying Headaches
The Department of Defense mailed out 400,000 surveys to servicemembers on Wednesday, July 7, with half going to active servicemembers and the other half going...
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Navigating an Epidemic
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) presented its National HIV/AIDS Strategy during a press event at the White House on Tuesday, July...
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Priming the Primaries
In one of the peculiarities of the District, the Democratic primary Sept. 14 is largely the local equivalent of what other jurisdictions nationwide will experience...
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Beating's Good-Bye
When Francisco J. Martin was mugged in the Shaw neighborhood a month and a half ago, he was not physically assaulted. ''They only took my...
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What Would Machiavelli Do?
Writing about “political fear” and the oft-repeated line that “lected officials and candidates view the gay community as an ATM,” AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay posits, “We...
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Log Cabin Goes to Court
As others focus on the questions the military is asking troops, Log Cabin Republicans are focused on questions of another type, as the group’s lawsuit...
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Fergilicious: Black Eyed Peas singer, Fergie, pushes Obama for gay marriage equality
“Barack Obama? I think that definitely he gave a different perspective on America from other countries. And I think that on foreign relations, he’s really...
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“Absolutely” No Segregation Being Considered, Pentagon Spokesman Says
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell hit back hard on Monday afternoon against the claim alluded to at Talking Points Memo and circulating in the LGBT blogosphere...
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Gay boys, the FTC has your back: Defunct magazine, XY, cannot sell members’ data
”The XY privacy policy is simple, explicit, and clear. Subscribers and members were told that their personal information would not be sold, shared, or given...
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DC’s Whitman-Walker Clinic running TV ads for HIV/AIDS, gay healthcare [video]
Whitman-Walker Clinic is now running two TV commercials on Comcast networks in the DC area through the end of the year. The commercials focus on...
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GLAAD keeps pushing Sherri Shepherd, ABC to correct info about HIV, black women, “down-low” men [video]
”Where it’s starting is, it’s so big in the black community with women because they’re having unprotected sex with men who have been having sex...
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More From Pentagon’s Morrell
Following up from the Friday evening, July 9, news conference held by Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, I believe many questions remain about the survey, its...
