News + Politics
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Opposing Viewpoints
Assistant Police Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) wants the local LGBT community to meet 35 officers, whom she claims are now...
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Calling Contractors
Some people know how to rally a crowd, recruit volunteers or throw a fundraiser. A select few may have less obvious talents, including those rarely...
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Rallying for Marriage
The Campaign for All DC Families and a coalition of other organizations, including D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC),...
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Clinic Community
The Whitman-Walker Clinic is seeking applicants for its newly announced Community Advisory Group, slated to meet for the first time in March 2010. ''We want...
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Lambda's Last Call
When he opened Lambda Rising bookstore in 1974, Deacon Maccubbin started with $3,000 of his own money and $1,000 he borrowed from Craig Howell of...
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New Jersey Senate Panel Sends Marriage Bill to the Floor
The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee handed proponents of marriage equality an important first-round victory last night, Dec. 7, approving a bill that could make...
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NJ Senate moves to vote on gay marriage bill [video]
On a narrow, 7 to 6 vote, a New Jersey state Senate committee opted to move ”The Freedom of Religion and Equality of Civil Marriage...
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Later-life lesbians
”It’s extremely common… The standard narrative that folks are used to hearing — if you have same-sex attraction, you got it when you were 9...
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The “Amazing” Gays: Brothers Sam and Dan McMillen almost win the $1 million reality TV prize [video]
”It means a lot for us to be here and represent the gay community. And say to people, ‘We are all the same, we’re all...
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Portia de Rossi tells “The View” about marriage, coming out lesbian in Hollywood [video]
”I think that you have to be married to know how different it is than just being together with someone…. It feels like a very...
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“Bruno” Backfire? Gay converting preacher turns movie mockery into run for Mayor
”It’s turned into a treÂÂÂmendous plus. I was able to share my mesÂÂÂsage. I used it as a platform. It turned into a tremenÂÂÂdously positive...
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First lesbian elected as bishop by Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese; Canterbury releases joyless reaction
”I believe the people of the diocese, by the grace and power and influence of the Holy Spirit, went beneath skin deep, went beneath the...
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Meet Diane Savino: New York State Senator is breakout celeb with impassioned gay marriage speech
”I am incredibly disappointed. This is a sad day in New York state.” Diane Savino, New York State Senator for North Shore/Brooklyn, speaking Tuesday after...
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Have your tax dollars helped Evangelicals set stage for gay execution bill in Uganda through Bush’s ”AIDS Relief” program? [video]
”Homosexuality will not be promoted, encouraged or supported in Uganda…. It is never, ever, a standard practice in the civilised world for a diplomat to...
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Diplomatic Maneuvers
With his spouse holding the Bible, David Huebner was sworn in this afternoon as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa in a...
