News + Politics
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Chicago Pride Parade: No to beads, water canons, street revelers
”Parade spectators MUST stay behind barricades. Only registered parade entries, Parade Marshals, police, and other city officials will be allowed in the street.” Organizers of...
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‘Real World’ TV cameras at DC’s gay bars
”We’re in no way going to promote invading anyone’s privacy, especially in this scene.” — Mark Rutstein “ow everyone who walks through the door has...
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Full Circle
Frank Kameny in the 2009 Capital Pride Parade Fifty-two years after being fired from the federal government for being gay, Frank Kameny has now being...
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Virginia Vanity
Two years after the Virginia DMV sent a letter of apology to a Virginia resident for demanding he return his ''poofter'' license plate, 41-year-old Sidney...
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Injury, Then Insult
In his first few days living in the District last fall, Jonathan Howard found himself caught in a daily routine: opening his Web browser to...
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Employing Anger
Gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny was in the White House on June 17 to attend the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on benefits for the same-sex...
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Senator Dodd shifts from civil unions to full support of gay marriage
”While I’ve long been for extending every benefit of marriage to same-sex couples, I have in the past drawn a distinction between a marriage-like status...
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Gay Perez Hilton blurts out anti-gay slur during argument
”No, no, no. You’re not a fucking artist. You’re a fucking faggot.” Perez Hilton, one of the world’s top celebrity gossip bloggers, during a heated...
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John Ensign: Anti-gay marriage Senator caught in major sex scandal cheating with mistress [video]
”Sadly, the effort to redefine marriage against the wishes of a majority of the people is, with help from activist judges, succeeding…. In order to...
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L.A. Times Poll: African-Americans remain mostly opposed to gay marriage, Latinos still evenly split, but overall L.A. is in favor
From the Los Angeles Times: Overall, the poll showed a majority of voters in Los Angeles support the right of same-sex couples to legally marry,...
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Google gays it up for Pride season
From Google’s Twitter feed: google – A rainbow with your search results for our LGBT friends & family. Happy Pride Month. http://bit.ly/f32sB (works on desktops...
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White House asks Census Bureau to do 180 on exclusion of same-sex marriage data
From the Wall Street Journal: The White House said Thursday it was seeking ways to include same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships in 2010 Census data,...
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Tammy Baldwin: President was limited by Congress on extension of gay benefits
” require an act of Congress — a change in the law in order to grant those benefits. The President signed a limited, but...
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Bitter loser Harry Jackson files lawsuit to force referendum against gay marriage in DC
”We are not going to sit by and allow an unelected board of bureaucrats to deny voters their rightful say on this issue and, by...
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Obama extends some benefits to gay partners of Federal workers [video]
Many of our government’s hard-working and dedicated, and patriotic servants, have long been denied basic rights that their colleagues enjoy — for one simple reason:...
