News + Politics
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Stories of Uganda
Saying that ''the bill has increased fear among all of us --especially sexual minorities -- and among everyone who believes in respect for diversity in...
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Power Outage
SAN FRANCISCO – Defenders of Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that amended California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, began their effort Monday to defend the...
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Prop 8 Supporters to Make Their Case
SAN FRANCISCO – Today begins Day 10, Week 3 of the federal trial challenging the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriages, Proposition 8. The...
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Loudoun Co., VA Supervisor Delgaudio blasted for public, anti-transgender remarks [video]
”Regardless of how one may feel about the policy in question, there is no excuse for referring to other human beings as ‘it.”’ Jim Burton,...
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Anti-gay marriage Senator John McCain reminds America that he’s the elected one in the family
”Senator McCain respects the views of members of his family. The Senator strongly supported the effort to successfully pass Arizona Proposition 102, the Marriage Protection...
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Everyone's a little gay, sometimes
SAN FRANCISCO – The legal team defending California's ban on same-sex marriages is in the very odd position of having to argue that most people...
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Lambda Legal Challenges OPM
Lambda Legal announced on Wednesday that it has sued the Office of Personnel Management in federal court in California over OPM's denial of same-sex partner...
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A Hostile Witness
SAN FRANCISCO -- William Tam is what lawyers call an ''adverse'' witness. The head of a small coalition of Asian Americans in the San Francisco...
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“Honor killing” of gay activist in Istanbul puts spotlight on Turkey’s attitudes toward homosexuality
“I think it is important that people, that this fact, that a father can kill his son, simply because of his sexual orientation. That is...
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Fierce Words, Little Power
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama's name keeps coming up during the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban. Wednesday, attorneys defending Proposition...
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Second Southeast Homicide
Two more people within the local LGBT community have been killed since Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV) held its last public meeting in November....
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Motion Denied
A D.C. Superior Court judge rejected a motion to dismiss two charges against the three gay men facing charges in the death of Robert Wone,...
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Strangely Familiar
With the capture of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat — sorry, I mean the people of Massachusetts' Senate seat — by Republican Scott Brown, Washington is...
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Alexandria Effort
In the ongoing fight against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, the big news recently was the partnership announced Jan. 12 between the District and...
