News + Politics
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Why do gays still need “visibility” parades? Take a look at the Texas GOP platform
Portions of the recently published ”2010 State Republican Party Platform” of Texas. The sad fact is, even though this document was recently released, it really isn’t...
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MTV’s “Jersey Shore guidos” are poster boys for Village Voice’s “Queer Issue?”
”The paper’s not saying the cover boys are gay, just that that they’re hot.” An unnamed source speaking with New York Post’s “Page Six” about...
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Mike Huckabee says gay relationships have “ick factor;” credits gay marriage ”militants” for term
One afternoon in Jerusalem, while Huckabee was eating a chocolate croissant in the lounge of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I asked him to explain his...
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Youth to the Fore
''I just hope that President Obama steps up to the plate on LGBT issues.'' Mentioning repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy and the...
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Finding Faith
For a godless homosexual, I'm unusually interested in the religious faith of LGBT people who are believers. This comes, in large part, from my own...
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Perkins's Washington Warning
If you are on the Family Research Council's e-mail list, you may have seen this alarm from Tony Perkins in his June 16 ''Washington Update'':...
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Young Blood
''One of my good friends went with me,'' says Lee Storrow. ''She saw the draft agenda online and said, 'Lee, everyone has a comma, then...
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Rehabbed Eminem approves of gay marriage, sort of
”I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if...
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Limited Leave (Updated)
Changes to be announced tomorrow, June 23, regarding expansion of family-leave benefits for gay and lesbian families will be limited to an expansion for individuals...
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E-mails reveal a little of Elena Kagan’s views on gay-related issues
In a spring 2005 e-mail, an Air Force representative said he had been “assured” that Harvard Law School would resume sponsoring military recruiters the next...
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News Analysis: Case Closed
''The case is submitted.'' With those four words, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ended a trial that began in January for a case that...
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Virginia Man Missing
A 31-year-old gay man from Spotsylvania, Va., has been missing since Sunday, June 13, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Edward ''Ted'' Roland Minnoe, who...
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Empowered in Mount Pleasant
On June 8 La Clinica del Pueblo welcomed members of the local LGBT community to see the site that will house its youth drop-in center,...
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Founder's Fight Ends
Over the past several months, Jerome Sikorski was a regular -- though emotional -- part of his friend Jerry Filbin's days. ''I saw him twice...
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DOJ Dollars for D.C.
Fill in the blank. That's what Morgan Lynn, supervising attorney at Women Empowered Against Violence Inc. (WEAVE), and others, asked LGBT people and allies to...
