News + Politics
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“Gender-Mixed Marriages” at the Kagan Hearings
The first explicit mention of same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Solicitor General Elena Kagan came in an exchange with Sen. Tom...
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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” at the Kagan Hearings
The second day of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan began on Tuesday morning, June 29, with questions from Judiciary...
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Marriage Equality at the Kagan Hearings
In the opening statements of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, on Monday,...
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Not guilty verdict in Wone trial
Nearly a month and a half after the start of the trial against three gay men charged with obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence...
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Lesbian’s DC marriage collides with Tennessee’s DMV over name change
”How dare her employee run out to my car, in front of everybody and say, ‘You’ve got to give me the license back, we don’t...
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Wisconsin appeals court sides with lesbian lawyer over stay-at-home mom in child custody case
Opening summary of judgement by an appeals court in Wisconsin that agrees with a Circuit Court ruling in the case of two lesbians who shared for parental...
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NYT reports 89-year-old lesbian struggling to recall her lead at 1969 Stonewall riots
”He wound up flat on his back on the ground. I don’t know what he hit me with. He hit me from behind, the coward.” Storme...
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NY gay Catholics march in Pride Parade; Bishop forbids display of Church’s banner [video]
”Perhaps some people come to St. Francis because they don’t feel judged… For me, the blank banner stands for, ‘We’ve been silenced.’ For me, that’s also...
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Fighting for Recognition
The U.S. Supreme Court today held that a public university can require that student groups allow ''all comers'' in order to receive the benefits of...
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Gay magazine crosses “12-step boundary” to out anti-gay pastor
Reverend Tom Brock is the Associate Pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis. He is known for his denunciations of homosexuality and GLBT rights...
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End Game
The conspiracy trial of three gay men implicated in the 2006 murder of attorney Robert Wone rested amid dramatic flourishes this week, with a verdict...
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Transgender student attacked and robbed in Houston
”I was scared, I really was scared. He had the blade up there and he kind of made little strokes like he was going to...
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Melissa Etheridge discusses the end of her gay marriage
”Now I think everybody understands why we’re not together — because we don’t see things the same. You know, those things are so hard to...
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Signing Statements
''Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.'' Justice Antonin Scalia, siding with gay-rights...
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Missing Man Found
Spotsylvania County Police announced on Thursday, June 24, that Edward Roland Minnoe, missing since June 13, is alive and ''safe in another state.'' According to...
