News + Politics
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Pay for Gays: Google to compensate gay partnered employees for unfair tax on benefits
”We said, ‘You’re right, that doesn’t seem fair,’ so we looked into it…. From that initial suggestion, we said, let’s take a look at all...
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LGBT Media Representatives Get a White House Q-and-A
Today, Metro Weekly, along with eight other LGBT media outlets, attended a briefing on LGBT issues by White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes. White...
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HRC Endorses Kagan Nomination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced its endorsement of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. From HRC: “Elena Kagan has demonstrated her understanding...
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Reality Distortion
Reality can be so confusing. Once again, as we traipse our way through a Supreme Court nomination hearing in the Senate and as Republican presidential...
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Questionable Consumption
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Tampa, Fla., to spend a weekend with my mother and two of my teenaged San Diegan nephews...
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Judging Kagan
The first Republican to question President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, at this week's Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings in the...
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Acquitted, But Not Exonerated
It took a sober and, at times, soft-spoken Judge Lynn Leibovitz little more than an hour Tuesday, June 29, to plow through what she termed...
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MPD Training Returns
It's not easy to determine who is the primary aggressor in an intimate-partner violence (IPV) situation involving same-gender couples, says Amy Loudermilk. ''What we're seeing...
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Nellie's Scores
When it comes to the best sports bar in the District, it wasn't downtown's ESPN Zone or the Crystal City Sports Pub that won the...
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Real World 24 debuts: Day 1, A Big blow up over “gay cooties”
Preston: ‘You know, now you’re going to turn gay. It’s called the gay cootie. Ryan: I’m not turning gay. Preston: And that’s what happens. Once...
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Obama’s Immigration Speech Audience to Include LGBT Group
President Obama plans to give what the White House is billing as an address regarding the need for comprehensive immigration reform at American University in...
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Gay, Rather, Day Three at the Kagan Hearings
Between the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and marriage questions, there was quite a bit of talk about LGBT issues in the third day of...
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Stonewall Dems Make Move on Byrd’s Replacement Politics
Following the death of Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, on Monday, the state’s secretary of state determined that the governor will appoint...
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Kagan's DADT Dance
On the second go-around of senators' questions to Supreme Court nominee and Obama administration Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) again turned to...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Marriage Amendment in Technical Challenge
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion (pdf) released on Wednesday, June 30, upheld the validity of the state’s constitutional amendment relating to marriage...
