Politics
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NCTE Offers Resources to Trans Voters as Right-Wing, Tea Party-Backed Group Highlights Transgender People as Example of “Voter Fraud”
A right-wing organization with ties to a Texas-based tea party group is training its volunteer poll workers with literature that, among other things, depicts a...
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Obama’s Electoral Edge Carrying Into Election Day
Polls show President Barack Obama heading into Election Day with an advantage in several key swing states, but still engaged in a tight race with...
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Cynthia Nixon, Sandra Fluke to Appear at Obama Falls Church Headquarters
Actress, breast cancer survivor and out lesbian Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda from Sex and the City, and Sandra Fluke, the...
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NOM Seeks To Capitalize on Brad Pitt’s HRC Donation
Same-sex-marriage opponents are seeking to capitalize on the latest high-profile donation supporting marriage-equality efforts in Maryland, Maine, Washington and Minnesota. In a fundraising email sent...
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Question 6 Attention Turns to Catholics and Women
In the months-long campaigns for and against Question 6, the measure that would allow Maryland’s marriage equality law to take effect, both sides have targeted...
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Bloomberg Endorses Obama Citing Support for Marriage Equality
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed Barack Obama for president on Thursday, citing Obama’s support for marriage equality as influencing his endorsement. In a...
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Gay Republican’s Final Ad Provides Break From the Campaign
Richard Tisei appears confident he will be the next congressman for Massachusetts’s 6th District. Nowhere is that confidence more apparent than in Tisei’s closing cable...
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HRC Files FCC Complaint Over Anti-Gay Text Messages
Hundreds of voters have been spammed with anti-Obama and anti-gay text messages one week before Election Day, soliciting a legal complaint from the Human Rights...
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Maryland Del. Afzali Hits Constituents with Anti-Question 6 Email, While Pro-Marriage Side Gets New Ads
Maryland state Del. Kathy Afzali (R-Frederick Co.) turned up the heat against Question 6 Oct. 24 in email blast to her constituents. Her letter, aimed...
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Supreme Court Sets Marriage Date
The Supreme Court justices will meet on Nov. 20 to consider whether the high court will hear a number of marriage equality cases petitioned for...
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Goucher College Poll Shows Broad Support for Maryland Marriage Equality, Though Not Specifically Among Voters
A new poll from Baltimore’s Goucher College shows a majority of Marylanders support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, but also underscores the importance...
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Biden: Transgender rights are the “civil rights issue of our time”
Speaking to a supporter at a campaign stop in Sarasota, Fla., on Tuesday evening, Vice President Joe Biden called discrimination against transgender Americans the “civil...
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New Baltimore Sun Poll Shows Marriage Equality Deadlocked in Maryland; Opponents’ Ads May Be Factor in Weakening Support
A new poll by Annapolis-based OpinionWorks done for The Baltimore Sun shows erosion among support for marriage equality among likely voters, with opponents holding a...
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Gay Republican Recants Allegation He Was Assaulted for Political Beliefs
A gay Republican who said he was the target of a brutal beating last week because of his political beliefs and sexual orientation has recanted...
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Romney on Same-Sex Parents: “It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact.”
Video has surfaced of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney condemning same-sex parents. The video of Romney speaking to an audience of social conservatives in South Carolina...
