News + Politics
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Making a Difference
The first requirements of activism and leadership are drive, desire and commitment. As a city and region that draws people brimming with just those qualities,...
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HRC Under Fire
When it comes to laying blame for a lack of progress on LGBT equality, activists aren't just focusing on President Barack Obama and Congress....
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Get Rational
Get Equal, which specializes in direct actions like heckling our allies with demands for Total Equality Right Now, has at least one like-minded boor in...
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PFOX Receives ''Appreciation'' from Fenty: UPDATED
NOTE: This story has been updated to include a response from Mayor Adrian Fenty's office. The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington D.C. is...
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Inner Light Securing Space
Inner Light Ministries hopes to close a deal on purchasing the space it has been using over the past year, at 1912 Q St. SE,...
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Wone Trial Nearing
While the status-hearing exchange between attorneys in the Robert Wone case remained civil, there was an element of chaos. Inside D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn...
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Hostile Court
Lawyers attempting to keep secret the names of those who signed the petition to put Washington's domestic partnership referendum on the ballot fought an uphill...
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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...
