News + Politics
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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...
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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...
