News + Politics
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Moving Forward
On Aug. 28, 2008, I listened to Sen. Barack Obama outline his soaring vision for America. I felt like he was speaking directly to me...
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Never-Ending Need
At 40, sharing a birthday with the Stonewall riots, I've lived through plenty of changes for LGBT Americans. After about 10 or so, I even...
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Changes at GLOV
Todd Metrokin and Chris Farris became the faces of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) in the fall of 2008 when they re-launched an organization...
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Voices of Experience
From Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), many substantial questions raised at last week's hearing regarding...
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More Snow, More Need
While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...
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NJ gay group, Garden State Equality, halts contributions to political parties
”No political party has a record good enough on LGBT civil rights that it can rightfully claim to be entitled to our money on a...
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Will it matter if the judge is gay? Proposition 8 court case judge’s personal life comes into focus
”There is nothing about Walker as a judge to indicate that his sexual orientation, other than being an interesting factor, will in any way bias...
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Tracy Morgan’s uneven comedy not so funny with the gays
”The tone of the night took a noticeable turn when Morgan asked for the gay men in the audience to cheer. He explained that...
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Foul Weather and Food
In order to keep ahead of additional snowfall expected to hit D.C. midweek, Food and Friends has put out an urgent call for delivery volunteers....
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Washington Post poll suggests racial disparity continues over gay marriage in DC
Responses to a Washington Post poll of 1,135 adults in the District of Columbia (Washington Post): 22.On another subject, do you think it should be...
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Round-Three Rejection
If the maxim about insanity being defined as repeating the same course of action yet expecting different results has any bearing in truth, the crowd...
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Obama Slams Ugandan Bill
President Barack Obama took the setting of the National Prayer Breakfast – an annual Washington event that has drawn criticism from several quarters this year...
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Maryland ditches anti-gay marriage bill: Vote blocks Emmett Burns bill, 12 to 8
”Members of a Maryland House committee on Wednesday shot down a bill that would prohibit Maryland from recognizing gay marriages validated by other states or...
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Webb Noncommittal on DADT Repeal
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is the only area senator who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Webb, who served as secretary of the Navy...
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Help, with a Hitch
Keith Short would pass Central Union Mission at 14th and R Streets NW regularly. It was in the same neighborhood where he was tenuously living...
