News + Politics
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Pentagon Tries Making DADT ''Fairer'' (UPDATED)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen announced this morning at a Pentagon news briefing changes...
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Life Lessons
When Dominque Walker went to Capitol Hill this week, she was taking up the work started by her mother, who lobbied Congress to ''mak sure...
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One in Ten's Debt
The first item on One in Ten's to-do list in planning the city's 20th annual gay and lesbian film festival, Reel Affirmations, this October is...
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Singing Through Spring
As late spring sees the end of the 2010 pride season, it will also see the end -- or, at least, the indefinite cessation --...
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All Hands on Deck
Nothing highlights the rifts in our community like the possibility of success. Infighting and disagreements over the direction and tactics of the movement for LGBT...
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Immigration Insult
It's been busy in Washington lately. An ENDA sit-in, White House arrests for DADT, marriage equality, Kathy Griffin, the tea-baggers' return, health care in Congress,...
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Gay porn producer, William Higgins, and the realities of the Czech gay-for-pay sex industry [video]
”If they are willing to do it with a guy, they’ll do it with any guy. It’s a job… We have one gay guy who...
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Court sides with lesbian student over prom discrimination, but won’t force school to hold prom
”The record shows Constance has been openly gay since eighth grade and she intended to communicate a message by wearing a tuxedo and to express...
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Barney Frank confirms anti-gay slurs used by Tea Party protestors [video]
”More than one. My partner, Jim, and I were walking from — it was a nice day! We walked from one House office building to...
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Lions, Meet Daniel. Gay controvesy erupts over Lt. Dan Choi: Fighter for freedom or misfiring martyr?
Daniel Choi (center) speaking with entertainer Kathy Griffin (right). In the lower left corner, notice HRC President Joe Solmonese speaking with gay rights activist Robin...
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“The Amazing” Randi is gay: Debunker of psychics and healers comes out at 81
”I’m gay…. From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there’s not much “gay” about being homosexual. For the first twenty...
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SE Man Suspected in Gay Homicide
The Metropolitan Police Department has announced an arrest in the Dec. 27 homicide that left a 29-year old gay man, Anthony Perkins, dead from a...
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Mass gay wedding no record, but 10 couples get hitched anyway
”There are going to be 30 people that I can say I helped make their day unforgettable…. As an event that’s never really been tried...
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Murphy's Law?
On Friday afternoon, March 19, a day before he was to be the keynote speaker at the 18th Annual National Dinner of the Servicemembers Legal...
