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LGBT Activists Reject Marion Barry, Yvette Alexander
If elections were solely decided by the LGBT community, some incumbent councilmembers would be serving on borrowed time. Incumbent Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and...
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Secretary Clinton to LGBT People Worldwide: “You Have an Ally in the United States”
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a major address on LGBT equality as her Human Rights Day Address. Delivered in Geneva, Clinton acknowledged...
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Out With It
For those of us who've been out for years, the delicate dance of the semi-closeted celebrity can be infuriating. The dance features a number of...
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Kameny in Combat
My first direct experience of Frank Kameny's combative style came during a gay rights debate that I arranged at Villanova University in March 1978 for...
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La Mission at Film Forward Festival
Benjamin Bratt plays a traditional Latino father who struggles to come to terms with his teenage son’s homosexuality in La Mission, which screens as part...
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Prop 8 Argument Day FAQ
The topic of same-sex marriage — particularly, marriage in California — has popped into the public’s eye with regularity over the past two-and-a-half years. On...
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Former RNC Head Ken Mehlman Outs Himself
“After having had several homosexual experiences, many people still deny that they are gay. They tell themselves that they are really heterosexual, they continue to...
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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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The Promised Land
Ugandan politics took a sad walk onto the world stage at the end of 2009, when David Bahati, a member of Parliament, introduced a bill...
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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...
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A Hostile Witness
SAN FRANCISCO -- William Tam is what lawyers call an ''adverse'' witness. The head of a small coalition of Asian Americans in the San Francisco...
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Fierce Words, Little Power
SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama's name keeps coming up during the trial challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban. Wednesday, attorneys defending Proposition...
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C Street, Rick Warren & George Bush’s billions for AIDS funding show close ties to proponents of Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill [video]
”The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator....
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Hoops and Heresy
I have been a bit conflicted lately. On one hand, I've been rooting for my Catholic alma mater, Villanova, in the NCAA men's basketball playoffs....
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Leading Authority
If you freeze-frame the Milk movie trailer on YouTube, you can see the ''1051'' atop the streetcar used in a scene portraying an angry demonstration....
