All posts tagged "hrc"
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Zack Tells All
Zack Rosen, usually writing at The New Gay and known more recently for showing all (Google it, grown-ups), is now comfortable telling all too, following...
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Surveying Headaches
The Department of Defense mailed out 400,000 surveys to servicemembers on Wednesday, July 7, with half going to active servicemembers and the other half going...
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Pentagon Pushes Back
In a late Friday afternoon news conference, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell defended the 103-question survey distributed to 400,000 active-duty and reserve servicemembers about the possible...
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Questions' Quagmire
The Department of Defense mailed out 400,000 surveys to servicemembers on Wednesday, July 7, with half going to active servicemembers and the other half going...
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HRC Endorses Kagan Nomination
Today, the Human Rights Campaign announced its endorsement of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. From HRC: “Elena Kagan has demonstrated her understanding...
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Mixed Messages on Blood
After a generation of gay men grew up being prohibited from donating blood after having had sex with just one man even one time since...
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News Analysis: Four Days That Shook DADT (UPDATED)
In the 96 hours between Monday morning, May 24, and Thursday evening, May 27, America may have seen the most deft legislative accomplishment of the...
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Blood Talk
Following up on a March announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services, the June meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and...
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Souder's Swansong
On Tuesday morning, May 18, Washington awoke to news that ''family values conservative'' Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) – who came to D.C. as part of...
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Meet the Next Generation [video]
Meet the winners of the 2010 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards: Hyacinth Alvaran, Andrew Barnett, Harjant Gill and Amy Loudermilk. The annual Next Generation Awards...
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Gay Vets and Top Brass
He said he was there “to help to secure jobs for people who want to serve our country.” Despite having been “discharged twice under ‘Don’t...
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HRC Under Fire
When it comes to laying blame for a lack of progress on LGBT equality, activists aren't just focusing on President Barack Obama and Congress....
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''LGBT People Know''
On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed Senate Bill 1070, the nation's most stringent state immigration enforcement bill, into law. On Tuesday, April...
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Waiting for Change
At the November 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, then-Senator Barack Obama invoked ''what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now''' in urging support...
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Pizza Party with Mike Manning of MTV's Real World: Washington D.C. [video]
LGBT youth from around the region gathered on Saturday, April 10, at the HRC Equality Forum in Washington, D.C., for a question-and-answer session with Mike...
