News + Politics
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Argentinan judge nullifies country’s first gay marriage
”We are married and are confident that the Supreme Court will prove us right.” Alex Freyre who was married to Jose Maria De Bello in...
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Obama’s hospital visitation memorandum received well by gays
”There may be challenges to it. But what we have seen across the country is that, no matter how people feel about same-sex marriage, people...
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Breaking Barriers
''If you screwed your eyes shut and imagined a judge for the Federal Circuit, you would have a hard time imagining anyone better than Ed...
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Whistling Dixie
It was just a few weeks ago that, while rummaging through the piles of past issues as part of my ongoing project of organizing my...
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The Legitimacy Lie
March was a heady month in the District of Columbia. The influx of same-sex couples at the marriage bureau boosted applications to six times their...
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Pride Mourns Miles
The Capital Pride Alliance announced this week that Bill Miles, co-founder of the organization and current board secretary, died on Saturday morning, April 10, at...
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Watergate's Strange Bedfellows
June 2010 will mark not a milestone, but an anniversary nonetheless, of the Watergate break-in that forever altered the landscape of American politics, if not...
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We Are Family
LGBT families come in all shapes, sizes and colors. And while Ellen Kahn, president of the board of Rainbow Families DC, says there is not...
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Obama Issues Hospital Directive
In a memorandum released by the White House on Thursday evening, President Barack Obama has directed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to...
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Washington Post documents Rep. Eric Massa’s inappropriate advances on gay male staffers
”Both the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff attempted to rein in the Congressman, but their efforts were ineffectual and by the...
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School nears settlement with transgender student prevented from attending prom in dress
”In his lawsuit, Logan said he had worn female attire during school throughout his junior and senior years and went by the gender-neutral nickname of...
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To Vote or Not to Vote
The White House this afternoon called a report claiming that the White House was telling House members not to hold a vote on repealing the...
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Did Catholics dump the 9th Commandment? Vatican declares link between gays and child molestation
”Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have demonstrated there exists no relationship between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, and have told me recently, that...
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Washington's Guessing Game
Looking at the list of possible nominees to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is one of D.C.’s favorite guessing games. Three...
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Proposition 8 recall petition falls short: No vote on California’s gay marriage in 2010
”We didn’t meet our targets and that’s all I’m going to say…. definitely sapped the volunteer energy.” John...
