News + Politics
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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...
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Sickening details of Senegal homophobia emerge: Dead gays exhumed, desecrated
”A man that’s known as being a homosexual can’t be buried in a cemetery. His body needs to be thrown away like trash…. His parents...
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Mike Huckabee likens gay marriage to drug users, incest, polygamy; Gay parenting like experimenting with “puppies”
”You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal,” he said of same-sex marriage. “That would be like saying, well,...
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Is Jim Carey’s gay film, “Phillip Morris,” the love that dare not be released?
”Consolidated Pictures Group, the start-up that was poised to release the Sundance title, has postponed the release once again. And this time it’s indefinite.” News...
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Decreasingly important John McCain clings to Colin Powell’s former “Don’t Ask” opinion; says it’s “nuts” to consult gay soldiers [video]
”And of course I don’t seek out someone who is gay. Why should I? These are all men and women who are serving. Why should...
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Are Houston, TX police intent on revenge for election of gay Mayor Annise Parker? [video]
”If somebody has to go around a puddle to walk in the street and wound up in jail there are several things there beyond the...
