News + Politics
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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...
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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...
