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  • Fierce Words, Little Power

    By on January 21, 2010

    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...

  • Financial Ally to Evil

    By on January 21, 2010

    Televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that the Haitian earthquake was divine retribution for a two-century-old pact with the devil, even as he purported to raise relief...

  • Diplomatic Maneuvers

    By on December 4, 2009

    With his spouse holding the Bible, David Huebner was sworn in this afternoon as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa in a...

  • Battle of the Ban

    By on November 4, 2009

    In August of 2008, Ron MacInnis, a gay Petworth resident working in HIV policy and prevention, grabbed headlines speaking at the 17th International AIDS Conference...

  • Law of the Land

    By on October 28, 2009

    Saying ''no one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love,'' President Obama on...

  • Hate Crimes bill passes Senate

    By on October 22, 2009

    Suddenly, with little fanfare or notice, the signs of ''change'' for the LGBT community are beginning to appear in Washington. The Obama administration this week...

  • Congressional Calling

    By on September 16, 2009

    The biggest news to come out of President Obama's Sept. 9 address to a joint session of Congress had less to do with health care...

  • Staying in the House

    By on September 16, 2009

    U.S. Rep. Barney Frank thought about running for the U.S. Senate, but that was five years ago, when it looked like Democratic presidential candidate John...

  • Milestone Medals

    By on August 5, 2009

    The White House has announced that President Obama will soon award the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to legendary gay-rights activist...

  • Pulling Together

    By on July 22, 2009

    In politics, as in life, we have to seize our moments. The current political moment belongs to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Obama’s polling numbers...

  • Executive Exchange

    By on July 1, 2009

    Following weeks of criticism from gay activists, bloggers and political leaders, President Barack Obama welcomed more than 275 members of the GLBT community to a...

  • Employing Anger

    By on June 24, 2009

    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...

  • The Time Has Come

    By on March 4, 2009

    The news out of Kansas really shouldn't have come as a shock. It was a new version of an old story. In February, the Kansas...

  • Executive Engagement

    By on January 21, 2009

    First came the call inviting the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington to participate in ''We Are One,'' the opening ceremony of President Obama's days-long Inauguration...

  • D.C.'s Countdown to Destiny

    By on January 14, 2009

    There have been other Inauguration Days in U.S. history and many are yet to come. But on Jan. 20, 2009, America will break a long...