All posts tagged "get equal"
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Mixing Up the Message
All's fair in love and war and, increasingly, politics. That's not an endorsement of, say, the current Republican political strategy of just making things up...
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Cities of Refuge
On the night of Dec. 1, members of Light Brigade Maryland, joined by members of GetEqual DC and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA),...
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Protestors Picket Police and Prosecutors
More than 30 local activists representing a coalition of LGBT organizations protested in front of Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
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Get Equal to Ask White House Pride Reception Attendees to Go on a “Scavenger Hunt”
On Wednesday, June 29, President Barack Obama and the First Lady are due to host the LGBT Pride Month Reception at the White House. Today,...
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Bachmann “Glittered,” Get Equal Supporting Such Actions
The “glittering” fad — which began when Nick Espinosa tossed glitter at Newt Gingrich earlier this year and continued when others “glittered” Tim Pawlenty —...
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DADT's Last Gasps
More than three months ago, on Dec. 22, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act into law, declaring to the...
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Obama Talks Faith Inside, Get Equal Protests The Family Outside
This morning, President Barack Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event sponsored by The Fellowship — also known as The Family, where he...
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Bravery in Black
An extraordinary display of gay courage and determination comes to us from Mukono, Uganda, thanks to a YouTube video of last Friday's funeral for murdered...
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Get Equal Plans to Protest Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast
Get Equal announced plans today to protest the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual D.C. event attended by many D.C. luminaries, including the president, that is...
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Advocacy Gets a Shot of Organized — and Organizational – Chaos
When then-Lt. Dan Choi and former Army infantryman James Pietrangelo II took a group of attendees at a Human Rights Campaign rally for the repeal...
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Get Equal’s McGehee: “I don’t, for a second, plan on backing down.”
Get Equal’s Robin McGehee told me in March, “Our goal is not to be the person who gets to be in those negotiations.” She added,...
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Pietrangelo and Choi: From the Fence to the Park
When Lt. Dan Choi...
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Choi to White House, OutServe and Knights Out Provide an Out
With a Sunday morning tweet, former Lt. Dan Choi announced his plans for the week, writing, “True freedom is gained by going to jail for...
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Lame Duck With the Obamas and the McCains
It’s not yet Thanksgiving, but the lame-duck session of Congress that begins today is the Democrats’ best chance for a holiday in the near future....
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The Question: What Could Tuesday Mean for LGBT Americans?
At Metro Weekly‘s Poliglot, we asked folks at several of the LGBT organizations — on this Monday before Election Day — for their thoughts on...
