News + Politics
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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...
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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...
