News + Politics
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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...
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Food, Friends and Testing
Update: This event has been postponed due to inclement weather.Food and Friends has been feeding people living with HIV/AIDS in the area for more than...
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Move at Metro
Marcel Acosta, a gay Washingtonian, has been appointed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA, aka Metro) board of directors. The board has equally...
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Shabbaton in the Capital
If the term is new to you, think of the Hebrew shabbaton as roughly a sabbatical or a retreat. It can mean different things to...
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''Raw Sex'' and Rev. Evans
There was no suspense at the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) hearing on Jan. 27, which concerned the proposed referendum on the recently...
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More than Words
We often complain that promises made to our community are ''just words,'' palliatives designed to make us feel that something is being done without any...
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Just the Facts
WHAT: On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a ''high-level working group'' within the Department of Defense to review ''the issues associated...
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Tyra Banks interviews transgender Elementary School children [video]
”When I was a little baby, I always used to be a girl. But my mom and dad didn’t know that. So, I couldn’t talk...
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Colin Firth nominated for Oscar for playing gay in “A Single Man” [video]
”If you’re known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that. If you’re a gay man and you want to...
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Crawford's Calling
Michael Crawford, co-founder of DC for Marriage and chair of the organization during its fight for marriage equality in the District, is taking his work...
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Gay military ban to be repealed says President Obama; meanwhile 428 discharged in 2009 [video]
“Abroad, America’s greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing...
