News + Politics
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Sudden Departure
During a news conference on Tuesday, June 8, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced that Dr. Shannon Hader has resigned from her position as senior deputy...
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Family Feuding
Last Thursday morning, June 10, the humidity was already thick by 9 a.m. But that's D.C. No surprise there. Still, it was a beautiful morning,...
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The Wedding Singer
Elton John's performance during the celebration of Rush Limbaugh's fourth attempt at successful matrimony has become like the inappropriate and unwanted wedding gift that keeps...
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Ending With a Bang
The prosecution in the Robert Wone conspiracy trial ended on a strong note this week, even as the judge in the case awarded the defense...
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Philadelphia Boy Scouts: We have the right to discriminate against gays and keep $1 rent of city’s property
”They wanted to force Cradle of Liberty to say something that Cradle of Liberty doesn’t have to say.” Jason Gosselin, a representative for the Cradle...
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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....
