News + Politics
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Kathy Griffin does DC: Will headline HRC rally to repeal military’s ban on gay soldiers: Thurs., 12noon, Freedom Plaza
”DC! it’s ON! Rally against “don’t ask, don’t tell” Thurs march 18. Noon @ Freedom Plaza. I need u. I’m hearing anti gay groups r...
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Lady Gaga achieves Madonna-hood: Conservatives want “Telephone” video banned, illegal [video]
”This time we have to speculate whether she has a male member or not. And whether it’s been cut off or not…. And then we’ve...
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DADT Repeal Still Uncertain
Calling Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Penn.) ''a tireless champion'' for the repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network spokesman Kevin Nix...
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Wone Trial Nears
Inside D.C. Superior Court on a cold and rainy Friday afternoon, Kathy Wone's gaze moved to the floor of the courtroom as two attorneys representing...
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Doctor, Doctor
Back in the very early 1990s, not long after college and in the depths of my great post-collegiate career crisis — fancy speak for ''educated...
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Vatican's Past Imperfect
Pope Benedict XVI has been beset by matters of the flesh lately, from the growing sexual-abuse scandal in Germany to the revelation that a member...
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Seniors in the Spotlight
It's been another big news week for LGBT aging. An Associated Press story released Monday on coming out late in life; the SAGE/Movement Advancement Project...
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VH1 debuts “TRANSform Me”: Makeover show hosted by three transgender women [video]
”It’s a makeover show where me, Nina Poon, and Jamie Clayton travel all over the country transforming women, using what we’ve learned transforming ourselves.” Laverne...
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Transgender Women Assaulted
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man suspected of assaulting two transgender individuals, also described as members of the Latino LGBT community, shortly after the...
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10-year-old activist, Will Phillips, impresses crowd at GLAAD Awards [video]
”I did this because I wanted to exercise my inherent rights as a citizen. I wanted people to widen their minds and look outside their...
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Joy Behar honored with GLAAD Award: Jokes with gay audience about “View” co-hosts, conservative politics [video]
”I’m at the Glaad awards with my lesbian lover, Meredith Vieira. She says hi.” Funny Twitter post from Joy Behar. The veteran comedian, and one...
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“Absurd” Arizona politician, JD Hayworth, says gay marriage leads to marrying horses [video]
”You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this, this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined...
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First Step for Families
On March 10, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), with nine Democratic co-sponsors, introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act to address anti-LGBT discrimination in adoption....
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Air Force discharged lesbian after police tattled on her Iowa marriage [video]
”I played by ‘don’t ask, don’t tell… I just don’t agree with what the Rapid City police department did. … They violated a lot of...
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DC Residents Alarmed by Robo-Calls: Anti-gay marriage group, NOM, targets District voters at home
”The National Organization for Marriage is sponsoring robo-calling of DC residents asking if they think marriage should be between only one man and one woman....
