All posts tagged "lesbians"
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Florida’s Lt. Governor apologizes for lesbian stereotype
Florida’s Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, has issued an apology for an earlier remark she made about women who engage in lesbian relationships. GLAAD reposted a fax...
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A Progressive Pushes Back
Karen Gautney has always been a fighter. And bullies – whether neighborhood troublemakers or legislators in Richmond – don't scare her. A lesbian resident of...
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Teaching Acceptance
To hear Caitlin Ryan talk about her 40-year career helping families come to terms with LGBT children is to be reminded how much things have...
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Washington Brothers Get Fall Trial
The two brothers accused of assaulting five women – some of whom identified as lesbians – in Columbia Heights in July 2011 will go to...
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Proud Son
''I think there's no doubt that whatever the stereotype of two lesbians raising kids is, a clean-cut, engineering, Eagle Scout entrepreneur from Iowa probably isn't...
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Iimay Ho
Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew...
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Praise for HRC's Donna Payne
Donna Payne, the D.C.-based associate director of diversity for the Human Rights Campaign, as well as a founding board member of the National Black Justice...
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Say What We Mean
So Tony Perkins, the longtime bigoted mouthpiece for the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, was rather apoplectic this past week over the news that a...
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Skinner Scheduled for Trial
The man accused of approaching two teenage girls, 15 and 16, near the Minnesota Avenue Metro Station and threatening to rape them in front of...
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Global Briefs: European Push and Pull
Lesbian Couple Loses Adoption Appeal Two French women have lost their appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in their fight to adopt, Pink...
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Parker and Prosecution
Lesbian Judge Won't Marry Opposite-Sex Couples A Dallas County, Texas, judge has announced in February that she will no longer provide marriage licenses to heterosexual...
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Photo Finish
A longtime fixture of the local LGBT community, photographer Patsy Lynch reports that she found resolution Tuesday evening in a deal with the Washington Blade,...
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Honoring an Artist
Coming to Baltimore for the first time, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Creating Change, ''The National Conference on LGBT Equality,'' was bound to...
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Pink Palace
There's a refurbished dance floor, which will be flanked by tables and chairs. There's also an enhanced sound system and more lights. But the biggest...
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Maryland lawmakers strongly support gay marriage at rally [video]
Three important state legislators helped to rally support for Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill on Sunday, Jan. 29, at a church in the city of Frederick....
