News + Politics
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Meet Carol and Brandy: “The Amazing Race 16” will feature lesbian couple from Los Angeles [video]
”The Race is an amazing opportunity to go travel with Brandy for several week, and to see new places, and experience new things, and have...
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Oprah features transgender lesbian filmmaker Kim Reed [video]
”I was this perfect guy in some ways, but I was just trying to overcompensate to be successful at this male thing… I thought it...
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A Judicial Outing?
The judge hearing a trial over whether Proposition 8 in California is constitutional ''is himself gay,'' according to a column that ran in this past...
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Designer Alexander McQueen found dead; Takes own life after mother dies [video]
”On behalf of Lee McQueen’s family, Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founder and designer of the Alexander McQueen brand...
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Street-Level Soiree
Things have changed for The Center, the area's LGBT community center, since moving to its new location at 1810 14th St. NW at the beginning...
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Neighborhood Investment
This year Brother Help Thyself (BHT) is giving more than $120,000 to 27 different organizations -- but its annual Grants Award Reception, originally scheduled for...
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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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Push for Parity
The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus last week made a fresh push for immigration equality in a letter to five national leaders. In the Feb. 2...
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Mighty Real
Being a product of the ''Real America'' — that halcyon collection of rural farmlands and evangelical hotbeds that see themselves as the authentic bedrock of...
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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...
