News + Politics
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Washington Blade Ends 40-Year Run
It was just a month ago that the Washington Blade celebrated 40 years of operations as the area's LGBT newspaper. That celebration could not have...
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Dolly Parton comments on gay marriage, preacher Joel Osteen’s anti-gay comments [video]
”I think it’s because they know that I’m different, too, and it took a long time fore me to be accepted. And I think that...
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More complaints filed against police officer for harassing drivers in Chicago’s gay Boystown area
”I thought that it was just a bad situation. The fact that I was just let go, and if I was intoxicated, and I couildn’t...
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Rhode Island Governor vetos gay burial rights, then meets gay group to consider domestic partnerships [video]
”The governor’s office has agreed to put resources towards the gay community. They are willing to look at our issues, and they are willing to...
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Catholic Charities, Archiocese Say DC Dollars Have Gay Cooties: Will abandon homeless, health care over same-sex marriages [video]
”We would not place children with same-sex couples…. We would not provide employees with spousal benefits in terms of same sex unions.” Edward...
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Carrie Prejean turned off by Larry King: Miss Christian USA finally shuts up over sex vid, gay call-in [video]
”Sarah Palin is my hero! … You look at Sarah Palin and Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, they are relentlessly torn down by the liberal media…. There’s...
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Ian McKellen confronts gay issues while promoting new series, ”The Prisoner,” waiting on ”Hobbit” contract
”We’re discovering who the enemy are, and I do think we do have an enemy. It means that everyone’s got to go on fighting. And...
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Catholic Conference claims Maine vote shows New York should back off marriage equality
“A lot of our job was done for us by the electorate in Maine and the electorate in the north country…. Why is it beneficial...
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Will Mormon “olive branch” to Salt Lake City’s LGBT community make up for Prop 8?
“What everyone found is that we really liked each other. There was a good rapport. It reaffirmed for me the power of people talking to...
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Salt Lake City bans some discrimination against gays; Mormon Church gives two-sided approval
”Across America and around the world, diverse communities such as ours are wrestling with complex social and moral questions…. The issues before you tonight are...
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Critical Confrontation
''I'll be very honest here. I wasn't aware of the 'gay panic defense.''' Those words might have been taken more lightly by the 30 or...
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Allies Before Animosity
The No on 1 campaign lost despite a strong effort because too many Maine voters were persuaded that marriage equality would require teaching schoolchildren about...
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One Man's Mark
During his final days Larry Stansbury didn't quite resemble the dedicated community activist and organizer so many in the D.C. area remember. Lying in a...
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Wone Update
One day prior to meeting with D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg for a status hearing in the Robert Wone case, the defense team filed...
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Religious Expulsion: You can’t fire me! God wants me to harass sinful, deviant, married lesbians
”I found it offensive that she repeatedly brought it up…. I felt God wanted me to express how I felt about the matter…. I said,...
