News + Politics
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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....
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Gay Mississippi under the microscope after McMillen’s prom fight [video]
”My grandmother doesn’t believe in it but still stands behind me no matter what. She’s a conservative Christian but respects that it’s my...
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GLAAD turns on “Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives”
”The filmmakers provided a copy of this film to GLAAD in February, and for weeks the organization had been supportive to the filmmakers. In fact,...
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Indonesian gay conference overrun by mob of religious fundamentalists
”We forced them to return home by Sunday. We also told them not to make a media statement.” Mohammad Chaeruddin, secretary-general of the Islamic Defenders...
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Recess Appointment for Feldblum
On Saturday afternoon, March 27, the White House announced the recess appointments of 15 administration nominees, including openly lesbian Georgetown University Law Center professor Chai...
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The Politics of Repeal
Calling the changes to the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy a ''great improvement'' that supportive members of Congress had ''been urging them to do,''...
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California’s incremental step toward gay marriage: 50% now favor?
”For the first time in a PPIC Statewide Survey, Californians are more likely to say they favor (50%) same-sex marriage than oppose it (45%). Support...
