News + Politics
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Promised Fireworks at Hearing Fizzle
There were expectations that Republicans would challenge openly gay EEOC nominee Chai Feldblum Thursday over some of her writings. Those writings included how non-discrimination laws...
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Gay Judgment Day
It's a gorgeous Sunday. Just about one of the last perfect days of 2009. But am I outside enjoying it? No. And why not? Two...
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Spiking in D.C.
More than 200 volleyball players from around the country, comprising 36 teams, will descend upon Washington next weekend for the 2009 Gay Volleyball Tournament. The...
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Local Leaders
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the long-running LGBT political organization in the District, has announced its 2010 election results. The majority of the former leadership...
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Mister Marcus Luncheon
Washingtonians who cannot travel to attend Marcus Hernandez's memorial on Saturday, Nov. 21, in his hometown San Francisco, are invited to gather and eat lunch...
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Anti-Gay Effort Rejected
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) on Tuesday rejected a proposed voter initiative that sought to define marriage as ''only between a man...
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Open-House Anger
Despite the lure of an unseasonably temperate evening, about 60 people chose to remain indoors to hear what Assistant Chief Diane Groomes of the Metropolitan...
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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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Reverend's Return
The first time Rev. Dwayne Johnson came to Washington, he was a 28-year-old in search of a hot night out. His host had different plans....
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Federal Employees One Step Closer to Equal Benefits
A House committee on Wednesday evening approved a bill to provide equal benefits to gay federal employees with domestic partners, but not without a political...
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A New Agenda
Birthed with the gay rights movement after Stonewall, the Washington Blade was 40 years strong just a week ago. Older than some of its readers,...
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So You Want to Have Gay Sex With an Elf: “Dragon Age” video game progresses with fantasy genre [video]
”Is there something in you tent that needs assasinating?… Mmm, that’s quite an offer, especially coming from another man, if we are both speaking of...
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Singing ”Idol” Adam Lambert expresses fear of the gay ”label” [video]
”When those pictures came out online, I got freaked out. I was like, “Great, that’s gonna fuck things up.” ‘Cause I just figured, you know,...
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Catholic stink pits religion against equal treatment of DC’s gay families, and the distribution of taxpayer dollars [video]
”The legal recognition of same-sex unions poses a multifaceted threat to the very fabric of society, striking at the source from which society and culture...
