News + Politics
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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...
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Both sides of Rick Warren’s mouth: Gay sex & marriage are un-Godly; Uganda bill is “un-Christian” [video]
”Let me be clear that God’s Word states that all sex outside of marriage is not what God intends. Jesus reaffirmed what Moses wrote that...
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Feldblum nomination passes Senate committee
A Senate committee Thursday approved the nomination of openly gay law professor Chai Feldblum to serve as a member of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
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Book Ends
Inside Lambda Rising, D.C.'s only bookstore dedicated to the LGBT community, it's hard to find any indication that the store will be closing its doors...
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Gay Support Missing for DADT Testimony Proposal
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment this month to help combat the military's ''Don't Ask-Don't Tell'' policy, but no openly gay member of...
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Must see TV: Rachel Maddow trounces ex-gay promoter based in Bowie, MD [video]
Dr. Rachel Maddow questioning the ex-gay promoter Richard Cohen on his ties to the upcoming bill in Uganda which in part calls for the imprisonment...
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Bob King begs Congress: Ignore our home rule, help keep marriage from DC’s gays [video]
”I’m doing this because the city council and the mayor have given me no choice…. Marion Barry and Yvette Alexander. We have a number of...
