News + Politics
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Singing “Idol” Clay Aiken impresses HRC crowd with speech on gay rights
”Some of you thought, when you saw my name on the billing tonight, ‘It’s about damn time.’ … The decision to talk openly about your...
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Actor Daniel Radcliffe continues to stand up for gay, bi, trans youth [video]
”I grew up knowing a lot of gay men. It was never something that I even thought twice about — some men were gay and...
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Famous commentator, Christopher Hitchens, alludes to bisexual experiences
”Every now and then, even though I was by then fixed on the pursuit of young women, a mild and mildly enjoyable relapse would occur...
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Super Sub-Text: “Mario Brothers” video games earn (hidden) gay stars
”When you take the new starred letters and arrange them in that way, they spell out a new message, apparently. It is now an answer...
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Harold Ford in NY: Gay marriage support is up because of “people like me”
”I freely admit there are issues I’ve evolved on…. The reason the numbers and the support continues to go up is because of people like...
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“Miss Beverley Hills” thinks God wants her gay friends dead? City decries statement, disavows pageant
”The City Council was shocked to see statements made by a beauty pageant contestant under the name of Beverly Hills who does not live in...
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Maryland AG Release Opinion on Marriage UPDATED
Just days before Washington, D.C.’s new marriage equality law is set to go into effect, the attorney general of neighboring Maryland issued a long-awaited opinion...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Â… Don't Vote?
When asked about equality advocates' concern that a moratorium on enforcement of the military's ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy would put off a vote on...
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Conservatively Speaking
I believe it's important to acknowledge when we're wrong about our assumptions or expectations, so I should point out that when GOProud initially announced its...
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Step Back
“In the commonwealth of Virginia, if you were to say to your boss, ‘I’m gay,’ your boss could look at you now and say, ‘You...
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Johnny Weir doesn’t want an apology, but he would like people to think before they speak, thank you very much
“I want them to think before they speak. I want them to think about not only the person they’re talking about, but also other people...
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Marine Corps commandant on DADT repeal: concern about military readiness becoming “secondary to the discussion”
“That’s what they have been built to do under the current construct and I would argue that we’ve done a pretty good job bringing that...
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Maryland to recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages “as of right now”
“State agencies in Maryland will recognize out-of-state gay marriages as of right now. … It’s not that foreign of a concept, I mean, it’s just people,...
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Shticks and Stones
There's the old Woody Allen joke about how being bisexual can double your chances of getting a date. It's not terribly funny, but it gets...
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Debunking the ''Myths'' of DADT
In an unusual display of allied cooperation, a dozen organizations – including the Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Servicemembers Legal Defense...
