News + Politics
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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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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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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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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,...
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Meet Annise Parker: Candidate may be first out gay Mayor of Houston, TX
”My family appears with me everywhere. My life partner appears with me everywhere but this race is about who can do the best job as...
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Domestic Developments: Unmarried gays may benefit from Health Care Bill
”Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, who proposed the change, said it would ‘correct a longstanding injustice, end a blatant inequity in the tax code...
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Gay father handcuffed, family detained and banned from all Wal-Mart stores for NOT shoplifting?
”They asked if I had Bic lighters. I said, ‘Yes,’ and handed them over,” Paolucci said. “Then they asked if I had a receipt. I...
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Poll says: California voters dislike idea of battling over gay marriage again in 2010
”Overall, 51% of California voters favored marriage rights for same-sex couples and 43% were opposed. Strikingly, however, almost 60% of Californians did not want to...
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Latest ”South Park” episode overflowing with gay slur; GLAAD unnerved
”We’re not referring to gay people. You can be gay and not be a fag.” — Kyle trying to explain why he and his friends...
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Maggie Gallagher, head of NOM, attends pro-gay marriage rally in DC; still supports Carrie Prejean [video]
Washington, D.C. — A protest rally held in Dupont Circle tonight brought together same-sex marriage supporters who say they were angered by yesterday’s vote to...
