News + Politics
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House Speaker Pelosi appoints gay Representative Jared Polis to supervisory board of Air Force Academy
”We’re all reading the tea leaves here. I’m not saying ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is going away. We can’t say that. But this is a...
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E. Lynn Harris, famed gay, African-American author, dies at 54
Publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, and a cause of death had not...
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Big Gay Ice Cream Truck meets the welcoming streets of NYC [video]
”I started thinking, kind of happily about the suspect nature of a middle-aged, white, gay man driving an ice cream truck and the fact that...
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DC-area American Apparel stores vandalized, threatened for displaying pro-gay marriage t-shirt
”We took down the mannequin for 5 seconds to move it, and move it back to this window. But we will not take down this...
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Gay male beauty pageant ends with trophy being used as weapon against judge from Baltimore
”Apparently, I must have voted for the wrong person.” Sebastian Latta of Baltimore, MD, who had his jaw broken in three places after he was...
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”How Hetero” Twitter test garners attention, criticism
Screenshot of how our Twitter.com/metroweekly feed scored a super low 1% on the Stockholm Pride site that is measuring “How Hetero” people are through keywords...
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Pulling Together
In politics, as in life, we have to seize our moments. The current political moment belongs to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Obama’s polling numbers...
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DC Coalition Stirring
When it comes to cities known for vibrant, black-GLBT communities, D.C. routinely sits in the upper tier. DC Black Pride, for example, is the world's...
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Honoring Deschaine
With the tragic death of Desi Deschaine, 29, who apparently drowned in Baltimore's Inner Harbor after a day of boating July 12, friends were tasked...
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A House Becomes a Home
When Johnny Sabbat lived with his mother, he wasn’t allowed to have gay friends. “My family didn’t approve of my homosexuality because they viewed it...
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Texas Alcohol Commissioner apologizes for gay bar raid; police continue to claim they were sexually assaulted
”If our guys would have followed the damn policy, we wouldn’t have even been there. We have these conversations all the time, and we don’t...
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Episcopalians vote again in favor of gay equality: Bishops can bless unions
”I have a number of friends — straight and gay — who requested me to perform their weddings once I’m ordained. I would have felt...
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DOMA-signer President Clinton now says he supports gay marriage?
From TheNation.com: Asked if he personally supported same-sex marriage, Clinton replied, “Yeah.” “I personally support people doing what they want to do,” Clinton said. “I...
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Chip Pickering’s infidelity allegations make him third anti-gay politican to give “C Street” church reputation as hangout for family-values hypocrites
”After Pickering’s rejection of Governor Haley Barbour’s offer to the vacant Lott position, and because Pickering did not want to lose the love and affection...
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No Safe Zone
It took him 18 months of paperwork, pulling bureaucratic strings, and making calls, but ''Hussam'' finally made it to New York, little more than a...
