All posts tagged "republicans"
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Senate approves ENDA with bipartisan vote
The United States Senate approved the Employment Non-Discrimination Act with a 64-32 vote Thursday afternoon. The vote on the landmark LGBT-rights bill comes 17 years...
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Virginia Readies for Election Day
The Virginia governor's race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis has been grabbing most of the political headlines, but the...
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Government, Cheesed
In the summer of 1991 I scraped together some coins from my rapidly depleting change bowl and hopped on the 14th Street bus that took...
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The Biggest Losers
You have to admit that as gay people we have some considerable experience at losing. While the pace of change in recent years for LGBT...
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Nearly three-quarters say gay marriage is inevitable
Nearly three quarters of Americans – 72 percent – say legal recognition of same-sex marriage is “inevitable,” according to a study released Thursday by the...
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The Crazy Uncle Party
New York novelist Dawn Powell wrote on the cusp of World War II, ''Civilization stood on a ledge, and in the tension of waiting it...
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Ebbin and Others Denounce Virginia GOP Ticket
Two Democratic legislators and the head of a nonprofit organization advocating for LGBT rights in Virginia held a press call Tuesday to condemn the anti-LGBT...
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Full Rhode Island Senate Republican Caucus supports gay-marriage bill
Supporters of marriage equality in the Ocean State got a huge boost Tuesday morning from Senate Republicans, just hours ahead of a scheduled vote by...
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Frank Talk
Barney Frank is office-less a few hours after the Jan. 3 swearing-in ceremony for the 113th Congress, having moved out of the large office he...
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Lay of the Legislative Land
Equality Virginia last month released a scorecard listing where Virginia legislators stand when it comes to anti-LGBT discrimination. Among the specific items on which legislators...
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From Tuesday to Tomorrow
It wasn't long after the first polls closed on the East Coast on election night that Republicans knew something was wrong. First Michigan was called...
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Romney and Ryan: How Low Can They Go?
It's a reflexive statement that has effectively passed into cliché, but when gay Republicans say that gay people aren't ''single-issue'' voters they have a point,...
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One Party, Two Camps
As gay Republicans headed home at the end of the Republican National Convention last week, many seemed content with how they had been received by...
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GOP's Hard Line on Gay Marriage
The Republican Party reaffirmed their opposition to marriage equality earlier this week with language that was as harsh as it was expected. A week before...
