News + Politics
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Hurtling Toward Hope
With the new year and new decade approaching, I realized I hadn't indulged in much retrospection. Then, standing in line at the grocery store, I...
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Center Meets the Street
The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is about to trade its third-floor perch above 14th and L Streets NW for a new home at...
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How Marriage Happened
This week, the D.C. City Council voted 11-2 to legalize marriages between same-sex couples. This is a milestone for the LGBT movement for a number...
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Bitter Aftertaste: DC’s gay marriage opponents plan to use Congress as blockade [video]
”We will fight you in the courts, we will fight you in the Congress. We will not let you win.” Anthony Evans, preacher of the...
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Gay Federal Employees Closer to Benefits
On Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee favorably reported the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act out of committee...
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Shocking news video: Gay video star dies as he struggles with police [video]
“We was(sic) trying to pull whatever he had in his mouth back out of his mouth…. Obviously, he was resisting and trying to prevent us...
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Final Vote Victory
The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 passed its second reading during a City Council legislative meeting Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 15,...
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Congress Rolling Back Riders
Time and again over the past decades, the District has been held back from implementing measures that some in Congress don't like, from needle-exchange programs...
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Center Makes a Move
The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is about to trade its third-floor perch above 14th and L Streets NW for a new home at...
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Coalition of No Consent
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier's ongoing agenda of reconfiguring the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU) has raised a number of...
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Gay and Catholic: Students still organize at DC’s conservative Catholic University
”We might not be an official group, but we’re winning. We have our own community…. It’s empowering.” Robby Diesu, a senior at Catholic University, speaking...
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Tom Ford’s ”A Single Man” well received, but does marketing downplay the gay?
”I was terrified with this. I was stepping out on a limb and exposing myself in a way I’ve never done before. But all along,...
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Houston elects lesbian Mayor: Annise Parker wins tough election despite anti-gay tactics of opponents supporters
”This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Just as it is about transforming the lives of all Houstonians...
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Chamber's New Chief
Try to follow the pink dollar in D.C. these days, and you've got to be sharp. After all, after nearly two decades, the Potomac Executive...
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Conservatives, Fox News smear GLSEN & Obama appointee Kevin Jennings as promoting fisting, swallowing & underage sex [video]
Below is a peek at this week’s sickening blanket of socially conservative, anti-gay rhetoric aimed at the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network and the head...
