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DADT Drama in Trial
The story of Air Force Reserve Major Margaret Witt has some drama to it and that drama may well be trotted out this week as...
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Harry Jackson revived: Promotes vote on DC gay marriage, ex-gays, “outraged blacks” [video]
”I believe in civil rights, according to Walter Fauntroy, who’s one proponent of our DC marriage bill here that we’re working on, said that housing,...
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Upsetting the Tyranny of the Majority
Rush Limbaugh today launched into what has become a customary attack for him following any court decision that favors LGBT equality, saying the Aug. 4...
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Jersey Juncture
Jersey Unsure With New Jersey high court's decision not to hear a marriage challenge before a trial court can develop a record, same-sex couples are...
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News Analysis: Opening Arguments, at the Close
More than five months ago, the trial questioning the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 – prohibiting same-sex marriages in the state – began in U.S....
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DOMA's Deserted Isle
Word of good news came this past week for gay federal employees stationed at Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, located 717 nautical miles west-southwest...
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The Legitimacy Lie
March was a heady month in the District of Columbia. The influx of same-sex couples at the marriage bureau boosted applications to six times their...
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Readings and Lectures
BORDERS BOOKSTORES Chelsea Handler Various locations borders.com Chelsea Handler — Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (3/27, 18th & L Streets NW) Lloyd Constantine — In Journal...
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Stage
AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER Master Class at Kennedy Center Gunston Theater II2700 S. Lang St.Arlington, Va.703-998-4555americancentury.org Stalag 17 — The Academy Award-winning film adaptation of this...
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DC Gay Marriage … in Black and Right [video]
”In D.C., outreach to African-Americans wasn’t part of the campaign. It was the campaign.” Michael Crawford of DC for Marriage explaining to AP the importance...
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Jackson's Last-Minute Effort
Bishop Harry Jackson, along with others opposed to marriage equality coming to Washington, filed a last-minute request at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March...
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Roberts Rules
In an opinion posted to the U.S. Supreme Court's web site after 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, Chief Justice John Roberts, acting alone, rejected the...
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Devil in the Details
SAN FRANCISCO -- There is nothing like turning an opponent's own words against him to both rile his emotions and destroy his position, and that...
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Lots of Argument, No Proof
SAN FRANCISCO – In the waning hours of the historic trial challenging the constitutionality of a state ban on same-sex marriage, the federal courtroom in...
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Power Outage
SAN FRANCISCO – Defenders of Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that amended California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, began their effort Monday to defend the...
