News + Politics
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Gay Minnesota police officer files discrimination suit over harassment
”He tried so many times to deal with it internally because he did not want to have his career derailed by this…. He wasn’t flaunting...
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Germany recognizes gay marriage from Canada as ”registered partnership”
“The court agreed with the view of the authorities that he could not be registered as ‘married’ because a marriage under German law requires different-sex...
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Conviction for Bias
The Metropolitan Police Department announced on Wednesday, June 16, that a D.C. Superior Court jury has found two men guilty for their involvement in a...
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News Analysis: Opening Arguments, at the Close
More than five months ago, the trial questioning the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 – prohibiting same-sex marriages in the state – began in U.S....
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Moving The Center
On Monday, June 21, The Center, the metro area's LGBT community center, will open its doors at a new location at 13th and U Streets...
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Mixed Messages on Blood
After a generation of gay men grew up being prohibited from donating blood after having had sex with just one man even one time since...
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Two marines beat Savannah gay man unconscious over alleged “wink”
”The guy thought I was winking at him. I told him, ‘I was squinting, man. … I’m tired…. That’s the last thing I remember is...
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Sen. Orrin Hatch: Gays ”don’t pay tithing” was meant as a compliment
”Gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, their religion is politics.” Utah’s Senator Orrin Hatch at a Town Hall on June 1, 2010, discussing his perceived...
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Political Pavement [video]
As Eliza Doolittle's suitor Freddy sings in My Fair Lady, ''I have often walked down this street before....'' It's the one where Eliza lives and...
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Feels Like the First Time
I was 19 years old and newly out of the closet -- not entirely by choice -- when I saw my first gay Pride parade....
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From Stonewall to the Workplace
One by one, they stepped up to the podium and got personal. ''I believe what my parents taught me — that if I work hard,...
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Winning Gracefully
The LGBT community has a long, hot summer ahead. The last election put avowed allies at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, yet the midterm election...
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Rhee's Tardy Response
Two years ago Michael Sessa was outraged by the results of the city's 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) for students attending public schools in...
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Eagle Keeps Its Roost
Thanks to a new lease, the DC Eagle leather bar has at least five more years at its Mount Vernon Square locale -- where it...
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Murder Prompts Renewed Warning
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) released a photograph of Michael Geoffrey McKoy to Metro Weekly on Monday, June 7, asking for information from anyone who...
