News + Politics
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Tuesday Attack UPDATED
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is asking the public for information in its investigation of an assault with a dangerous weapon that may have been...
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Teen boy was secretly 31-year-old woman; Arrested for sex with teen girl [video]
”It’s very, very disturbing. She had me fooled. I thought I was dealing with a 14-year-old boy.” Melissa Neumann, friend of an unnamed Ohio 16-year-old...
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Federal Court Rules DOMA Sec. 3 Violates Equal Protection
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro, appointed to the federal bench in 1972, ruled this afternoon in Gill v....
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SLDN to Gay Servicemembers: Stay Away from DADT Survey
[UPDATE: Please refer to “Questions’ Quagmire” for a full article on this issue, in which the Human Rights Campaign and Palm Center do not take...
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Questions' Quagmire
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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Janelle Monae dances around lesbian question
”The lesbian community has tried to claim me. But I only date androids. Nothing like an android — they don’t cheat on you…. I’m trying...
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Actor David Hyde Pierce still angry about Prop 8
”As a person who is least happy calling attention to themselves, to have to be suddenly very public about their life, and who felt very...
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Transgender woman Vandy Beth Glenn wins lawsuit against Georgia Assembly
”This is the happiest I’ve been in a very, very long time. It’s been two years this month since we filed the suit and I...
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NBC TODAY show excludes gay, lesbian couples from ”Modern Wedding” contest says GLAAD
”For the TODAY show wedding, the couple must be able to be legally married in New York, which is where the wedding will take place.”...
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Big Lies
As gays and lesbians, we're not unused to hearing lies told about us. For decades, homophobes and anti-gay activists have relied on the big lies...
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Court of Public Opinion
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan left more questions than answers, since she quite properly refused to prejudge matters that might come...
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Stories of Life
As a transgender woman writing at Feministing.com, I regularly cover trans-related stories. I also critique the almost-always poor coverage from mainstream and even LGBT publications....
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Kagan Ends Hearings
President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, finished testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the evening of June...
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Missing Persons Report
The Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs on June 30 released ''A Report of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Health in the District of Columbia,'' based on...
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Paddling with Purpose
The DC Aquatics Club (DCAC) is preparing to welcome more than 170 swimmers from the mid-Atlantic region for the 19th annual Maryland Swim for Life...
