News + Politics
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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Gay military ban to be repealed says President Obama; meanwhile 428 discharged in 2009 [video]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...
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“Mass Effect 2” allows hot girl-on-girl action, but none for the gay boys? [video]
”There are a bunch of gay and gay-friendly gamers who are posting topics about why male/male romances (because, of course, they have female/female) were deliberately...
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RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 2 (preview): Drag queen competition becomes “Untucked” on Monday [video]
”Twelve new queens arrive to compete for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. In the premiere episode, the queens must reinvent their drag looks...
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Family Feud
Full Equality Now DC (FENDC), a group evolved from the local host committee of October's National Equality March, are turning their activist aim at The...
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CBS fumbles with rejection of two gay ads during Superbowl, yet accepts conservative group’s ad [video]
”CBS Standards and Practices has reviewed your proposed Super Bowl ad and concluded that the creative is not within the Network’s Broadcast Standards for Super...
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Juvenile Charged in Southeast Murder
An arrest has been made in connection with the January murder of Gordon Rivers. ''On the afternoon of Thursday, January 28, 2010, a 17-year-old male...
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Marriage, Monogamy and the Gays: Is it really a non-issue? [video]
”With straight people, it’s called affairs or cheating, but with gay people it does not have such negative connotations.” Colleen Hoff, principal investigator of a...
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Constitutional ban on gay marriage in Indiana moves forward with big yes vote from state Senate
”The proponents of SJR 13 know the next generation feels differently concerning these social and cultural matters…. They think the right to express their changing...
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Utah’s annoying Rep. Chaffetz introduces “symbolic” anti-gay bill – a flailing attack on DC marriage, home rule
”But with the Democrats controlling the House, the Senate and the presidency, I can’t imagine that this would make it through the process … [the...
