Politics
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MD Marriage Equality Effort Picks Up GOP Support
Sen. Allan Kittleman (R-Carroll, Howard), who had been supporting civil-union legislation in Maryland in recent weeks, today announced his support for full marriage equality —...
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Get Equal Plans to Protest Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast
Get Equal announced plans today to protest the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual D.C. event attended by many D.C. luminaries, including the president, that is...
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Gov’t Loses Request to Put LCR’s DADT Case on Hold
In a Friday evening ruling issued by the clerk’s office for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the government’s attempt to put...
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Gates, Pentagon Officials Outline DADT Repeal Implementation
Calling the implementation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal a “milestone event” for the Defense Department,...
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Parties In Prop 8 Case Spar Over Standing, State Law Questions
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in considering whether the proponents of California’s Proposition 8 even have the legal ability to appeal...
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Obama on Uganda Killing: “LGBT rights are not special rights; they are human rights.”
President Barack Obama, following up on an earlier statement today from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, issued a statement this afternoon condemning the killing of...
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Pentagon Plans Friday News Conference on DADT Repeal Implementation
In response to an inquiry, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to Metro Weekly that the Pentagon has a news conference planned for Friday, Jan. 28, to...
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Obama Nominates Oetken for N.Y. Federal Court Spot
Today, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of J. Paul Oetken to serve as a U.S. District Court judge on the Southern District of New...
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Obama Names Achtenberg to U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Levi to Health Advisory Group
Today, President Barack Obama announced that he had named Roberta Achtenberg to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Although Achtenberg has a long resume and list...
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Obama to Say Open Gay Service “Starting This Year” at SOTU
In 2010, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to use the State of the Union to declare that he would “work with Congress and our...
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NGLTF’s Carey: Obama should “include our lives, our families in the same way he talks of the lives of others”
Following Monday’s lowered expectations from the Human Rights Campaign for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union adress tonight, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...
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Former RNC Online Comm Director Teams Up With GOProud
She’s no Andrew Breitbart — a good thing to some — but Liz Mair is the former online communications director at the Republican National Committee...
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Jordan Says Conservative Caucus Will Push D.C. Marriage Ban; LCR, HRC Push Back
This morning, The Hill reported that the chairman of the influential conservative Republican Study Committee, which boasts 175 members, plans to introduce legislation “that would...
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HRC’s Sainz Lowers Expectations for LGBT Americans at SOTU
On Friday, Jan. 21, Human Rights Campaign vice president Fred Sainz told The New York Times, “This past year Americans were confronted with the epidemic...
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Arizona Hero Hernandez to Sit With Michelle Obama at SOTU
Daniel Hernandez Jr., the intern who aided Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) until medical personnel arrived after she was shot earlier this month, will be attending...
