News + Politics
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Local gay couple in finals for Crate & Barrel’s ”Ultimate Wedding contest”
”We just us that we are FINALISTS! Congratulations to all of the finalists whose love stories are inspiring! A special thank...
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Catholic blowhard Bill Donohue wrongly blames gays for Church’s crisis of child rape and molestation [video]
”The Times continues to editorialize about the “pedophilia crisis,” when all along it’s been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the victims of priestly sexual...
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Man who sought “IM GAY” license plate found dead
”THERE IS NO WAY EASY TO SAY THIS. kEITH HAS BEEN STAYING WITH ME FOR A FEW DAYS, AND THIS MORNING AT 7:45 I FOUND...
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Attempt by anti-gay Don Dwyer to impeach Maryland Attorney General Gansler fails
”I brought the Articles of Impeachment to the House Floor today at approximately 10:15am. I was not ruled out of order as I had expected...
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Transgender woman murdered in Queens, NY
”We found her on her bed. She was naked. Everything in the apartment was destroyed. All her Marilyn Monroe pictures were destroyed.” Barbara Vega relaying...
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Second Act
I'll admit it — when I first heard the news of Ricky Martin's coming out, I greeted it with the mental equivalent of a yawn....
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Time to Step Up
Thousand-dollar-a-plate dinners are like abortions or same-sex marriages: If you don't approve of them, don't have one. We all make choices based on our views,...
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Deciphering the Data
Standing at a lectern in front of the Wanda Alston House, one of the nation's few transitional homes specifically for LGBT youth, Thursday, March 25,...
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Meeting and Greeting the GLLU
Rather than contention, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers and members of the local LGBT community were greeted with chocolate cupcakes, sandwiches and live music on...
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Sheehan's Retreat
Less than two weeks after retired Gen. John J. Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that a Dutch general had told him that openly...
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Gay college play cancelled: Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christi” still too hot for Texans
”I’m very upset that we had to cancel this. It was a very well-done production. But I could not have lived with myself if someone...
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General Sheehan apologizes for “inaccurate recollection,” but not for disliking gay troops
”I am sorry that my recent public recollection of those discussion of 15 years ago inaccurately reflected your thinking on some specific social issues in...
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Ricky Martin reveals he is gay and proud
”These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth...
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ENDA Vote May Be Near
In the hours before the final changes to the congressional health care bill were passed by the House of Representatives on March 25, the two...
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Threatening Language
On Monday, March 29, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia announced that Norman Leboon was being charged with two counts of threatening to kill Rep....
