News + Politics
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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...
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IML Entourage
While Washington took time during Memorial Day Weekend to celebrate DC Black Pride, Chicago spent the weekend with the International Mr. Leather contest. A few...
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Federal Act Applies
The criminal provisions of the Violence Against Women Act – which allow the federal government to prosecute those who travel across state lines to attempt...
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Biographer says: Gay Elton John picked for wedding because Rush Limbaugh is deaf
”Most of all, you want someone you can hear. Limbaugh has been deaf for many years. He can make out speech thanks to a cochlear...
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Alexandria, VA chef nabbed for extortion using ”gay sex” photos
The victim was on a business trip in Washington D.C. from Michigan when he got a phone call in his hotel room on May 3,...
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“Devin & Glenn ad” takes terribly funny look at gay marriage debate [video]
”If you disagree with the homosexual lifestyle, support overturning Prop 8, and make them get married like the rest of us.” Hollywood actors Justin Long...
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DOMA's Deserted Isle
Word of good news came this past week for gay federal employees stationed at Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, located 717 nautical miles west-southwest...
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Suspension for Secrets
Allen Carroll has been running nightlife venues for the local LGBT community for more than 40 years, starting in 1970 with Phase 1, the Capitol...
