News + Politics
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”Daily Show” covers gay Equality March, missing media coverage [video]
”Gay people aren’t vampires! They show up on camera.” Jon Stewart taking on Fox News and most other TV media outlets’ that provided very little...
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Gay sex club in Logan Circle scrutinized by City Paper, NBC TV 4 [video]
Unfortunately for Men’s Parties, police and city officials operate on a more traditional definition of “safety.” The man’s death marks the second major incident at...
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180 Days for Death
Judge Rafael Diaz of the D.C. Superior Court sentenced Robert Lee Hannah to the maximum of 180 days, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, for ''simple assault''...
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Walking Tall
Whitman-Walker Clinic announced last week that the 23rd annual AIDS Walk Washington fundraiser raised more than $800,000 for the clinic. Shawn Decker (Photo by Ward...
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Legacy of Liberty
As the late writer and children's advocate Pearl S. Buck put it, ''One faces the future with one's past.'' It's a sentiment that runs through...
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Incoming Ally
Sharon J. Lettman has plenty to say. And as the newly appointed executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), Lettman, who is straight,...
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Weekend Warriors
It was the inverse of the ''perfect storm.'' Rather than forces of nature converging for maximum destruction, elements of society were converging for maximum exposure...
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Street vs. Suite
The National Equality March (NEM) on Sunday brought out tens of thousands (according to The Washington Post), including lots of dogs and children, with the...
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Mariah Carey lends her charm braclet to gay marriage proposal [video]
”Three years ago, Matthew said to me that I would be allowed to ask him to get married, if I ever get him to meet...
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”Harvey Milk Day” and out-of-state marriage bill signed into law by California Governor Schwarzenegger
‘As required by Proposition 8, California will not recognize such couples as ‘married.’ However, Senate Bill 54 will provide the same legal protections that would...
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Stephen Gately, gay singer of UK band, Boyzone, dies at 33 [video]
”Stephen was a beautiful person in both body and spirit. He lit up our lives and those of the many friends he had all over...
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Lady Gaga performs amazing rendition of ‘Imagine’ at gay rights fundraiser [video]
People of the nation Are you listening? It isn’t equal if it’s sometimes I want a real democracy Imagine all the people Could love equally…...
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Conservatives, Republicans bitter as House approves gay Hate Crimes measure
”We believe this is a poison pill, poisonous enough that we refuse to be blackmailed into voting for a piece of social agenda that has...
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Study shows lesbians discharged from military at proportionally higher rate
”We have always known that women are disproportionately affected by ‘don’t ask, don’t tell. But the Air Force data are particularly troubling and raise questions...
