News + Politics
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Anti-gay ad on DC Metro buses tests gay community’s definitions of free speech
Photo by David Uy / MetroWeekly.com “Let the People Vote on Marriage.“ Content of an advertisement currently appearing on the side of DC’s WMATA buses....
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Financial Aid
Northern Virginia's largest provider of HIV/AIDS care services, Inova Juniper Program, was recently granted more than $250,000 from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, an insurance provider for...
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History's Hobby
If history has a hobby, it's making those who assume to know its course look foolish. At the close of the last decade, somewhat weary...
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A Long Road to Equality
''By not fully asserting ourselves and trying to get the license, we would be agreeing with society that our relationship is less than other marriages.''...
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Deadly dance floor: Gay bar brawl ends in death of gay man in Toledo [video]
”He was such a homebody. This was only the second time this year he went to a bar and this happened to him. He never...
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Searching for Dialogue
It seems that the issue of relations between the LGBT community and the black community has remained contentious. It's even more problematic if you toss...
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Historic Harvest
A blizzard began in Washington on Dec. 18, several hours after Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the marriage-equality bill in historic All Souls Unitarian Church. Nearly...
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Gay newspapers’ troubles revealed in Chicago, Atlanta, DC, …
”The last two to three payrolls, we’ve been having issues from a cash-flow standpoint…. This is a rough week because it’s Christmas too. There’s the...
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Historical look at gay stereotypes in comic books and cartoon strips
”What could be more wholesome than Mickey Mouse, the big-eared emblem of the Disney empire? Yet a Mickey Mouse comic strip from January 22, 1931...
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Gay marriage legalized in Mexico City
”For centuries, unjust laws prohibited marriage between whites and blacks or Europeans and (indigenous) Indians. Today all those barriers have come down.” Victor Romo of...
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First gay wedding featured by Martha Stewart magazine
”We’re humbled and honored to have been deemed ‘good thing’-y enough to grace this mass market mag’s pages. It’s one time you won’t hear us...
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Know Thy Adversary: Anti-gay conservative, Robert P George (Chairman of National Organization for Marriage), profiled by NY Times
”People have lost their grip on the true reasons for marrying, so they are unwilling to make all the sacrifices real marriage requires…. If I,...
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D.C. Attorney General Backs BOEE on Marriage
D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General filed a brief Friday, Dec. 18, responding to a lawsuit brought last month by Bishop Harry Jackson against the...
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Congressional Budget Office estimates “Domestic Partners” Act: 10 years = $898 million
H.R. 2517 would make same-sex domestic partners of certain federal employees (both current and retired) eligible to receive the same employment benefits as married spouses...
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Hillary Clinton: Persecution of gays in countries like Iran, Uganda are at top of Human Rights list
“Once rights are established, governments should be expected to resist the temptation to restrict freedom of expression when criticism arises, and to be vigilant in...
