News + Politics
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No More Delays
Back in the mid-1980s, with the Cold War still peaking and the idea of the fall of the Soviet Union no more than a utopian...
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Ally Beats Enemy
It's been a year – just a year, mind you – that Barack Obama has served as 44th president of the U.S. He's the first...
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The Time Is Now
For 17 years, the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' (DADT) law has been a major barrier on the road to equality for the 65,000 gay and...
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Murder motive: Rent. NYC man found stabbed at home; Gay lover nabbed in Vermont
”A few days turned into a few weeks. A few weeks turned into a month. A month turned into two…. This weekend is when John...
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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...
