All posts tagged "democrats"
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Pelosi and 144 House Democrats File Brief Against DOMA
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and 144 other House Democrats filed a brief on Friday arguing that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage...
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Platform in Play
When news broke early last week that the Democratic Party had taken a giant step toward endorsing marriage equality as part of their national platform...
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What Should Mitt Romney Become?
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Quaranta Claims Victory
Running on a reform platform, Toby Quaranta, 28, won nearly 60 percent of the votes for president of the D.C. Young Democrats, Saturday, May 5,...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Pelosi Supports 2012 Democratic Party Platform Including Marriage Equality
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports the 2012 Democratic Party platform including, for the first time, language in full support of marriage equality, her...
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Who will win Iowa?
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Ebbin Elected to State Senate in Virginia Amid Dem Losses
Del. Adam Ebbin (D-Arlington) was elected as Virginia’s first openly gay senator in the state’s Nov. 8 elections, even as other politicians who oppose LGBT...
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UPDATE: Ebbin Wins Virginia State Senate Primary
FINAL UPDATE: As of 9:30 p.m. tonight, Virginia state Del. Adam Ebbin (D-Arlington) — the only out LGBT lawmaker in the Virginia legislature, who was...
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What Would Machiavelli Do?
Writing about “political fear” and the oft-repeated line that “lected officials and candidates view the gay community as an ATM,” AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay posits, “We...
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Strangely Familiar
With the capture of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat — sorry, I mean the people of Massachusetts' Senate seat — by Republican Scott Brown, Washington is...
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Pulling Together
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...
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Out In Congress
There have been gay members of Congress before and there are those who serve now. There has already been an openly gay candidate elected to...
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Growing Grassroots
Paquita Wiggins Paquita Wiggins feeds off of adversity. Even before the 31-year-old Chicago native came out as a lesbian, she was advocating for gay equality...
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Stein Successors
Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, a gay organization and among the most influential in District politics, elected the club's 2009 officers at a...
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Jon Hoadley, Executive Director, National Stonewall Democrats
METRO WEEKLY: From your -- or your organization's -- perspective, what is the most immediate effect of the presidential election on the LGBT community? JON...
