News + Politics
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''LGBT People Know''
On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed Senate Bill 1070, the nation's most stringent state immigration enforcement bill, into law. On Tuesday, April...
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GLOV's Network Warning
Following the death of Brian Betts, a beloved gay principal at Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson, Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) has issued a...
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Senate Advances on International LGBT Rights
An amendment that successfully passed as part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's State Department authorization bill would increase U.S. monitoring of international violence and...
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Waiting for Change
At the November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, then-Senator Barack Obama invoked ''what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now''' in urging support...
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Bisexual candidate in Philadelphia accused of being “straight” by Democrat incumbent
”My sexuality is not a qualification for office. I bring it up only in the context that it’s important for the LGBT community to have...
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Archie Comics wants you to “Meet the hot new [gay] guy,” Kevin
”The introduction of Kevin is just about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive. Archie’s hometown of Riverdale has always been a safe...
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Youth Pride Postponed
Roscoe Boyd, vice president of the Youth Pride Alliance, organizers of the annual Youth Pride Day celebration at P Street Beach, confirmed today that the...
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MTV asks rapper Solar if he had a “romantic” relationship with Guru
”That’s untrue, completely unfounded. Guru is a family man, I’m a family man. I don’t want to say anything against anybody living a certain type...
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Daily Show’s latest ”Gay Watch:” Obama protestors, Lindsey Graham [video]
”I see, you believe he’s being blackmailed. Lindsey Graham’s a puppet. A mole. A Man-on-Manchurian Candidate, if you will.” Comedy Central’s John Stewart mocking the...
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Fox News host suggests gay Get Equal is against “black man” Obama, and potentially violent? [video]
”But I wonder, couldn’t this heckling be a precursor to violent extremism? And could this agitation toward our president, said to be based on policy,...
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One Story, Two Sides
''What a stupid thing to do.'' Those were the first words an agitated Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) spit out when commenting on the Get Equal...
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Smallwood Funeral Draws Hundreds
Hundreds filled the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on Monday, April 19, to say farewell to a pioneer: Charlotte Smallwood. ''The community has lost an icon,''...
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Turn Back Time
It's true. If you hang around Washington long enough you'll get to see history repeat itself. Back in the early 1990s, the LGBT community started...
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Modern Mirage
Maybe you went to a bittersweet party to watch the final episode of HBO's Sex and the City. Did you hit the theater eagerly the...
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Mistrial in Memphis: Lone juror won’t convict police officer in case of brutality against transgender woman [video]
Five witnesses testified the attack was unprovoked. Enough to convince all but one juror McRae was guilty of violating Johnson’s civil rights. “Talking about taking...
