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Recess Appointment for Feldblum
On Saturday afternoon, March 27, the White House announced the recess appointments of 15 administration nominees, including openly lesbian Georgetown University Law Center professor Chai...
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The Politics of Repeal
Calling the changes to the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' military policy a ''great improvement'' that supportive members of Congress had ''been urging them to do,''...
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California’s incremental step toward gay marriage: 50% now favor?
”For the first time in a PPIC Statewide Survey, Californians are more likely to say they favor (50%) same-sex marriage than oppose it (45%). Support...
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Fun with Flora
What does one say about a musical whose leads include a man-eating plant? A musical that causes most people to think not of Broadway (or...
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Pentagon Tries Making DADT ''Fairer'' (UPDATED)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen announced this morning at a Pentagon news briefing changes...
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Life Lessons
When Dominque Walker went to Capitol Hill this week, she was taking up the work started by her mother, who lobbied Congress to ''mak sure...
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One in Ten's Debt
The first item on One in Ten's to-do list in planning the city's 20th annual gay and lesbian film festival, Reel Affirmations, this October is...
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Singing Through Spring
As late spring sees the end of the 2010 pride season, it will also see the end -- or, at least, the indefinite cessation --...
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All Hands on Deck
Nothing highlights the rifts in our community like the possibility of success. Infighting and disagreements over the direction and tactics of the movement for LGBT...
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Immigration Insult
It's been busy in Washington lately. An ENDA sit-in, White House arrests for DADT, marriage equality, Kathy Griffin, the tea-baggers' return, health care in Congress,...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: The earth is warming. The sky is opening. The world is busy becoming. What's your excuse? Nothing's running smoothly; it never does. There...
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McNally's Aria
Three years ago, Terrence McNally's phone rang. On the line, Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ''We'd like...
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Opera Queens
Terrence McNally was angry with John Glover. ''So, what's going to happen? I've called and offered you this part and I haven't heard from you,''...
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Diva Country
When Terrence McNally first approached Tyne Daly to play Maria Callas in Master Class, the actress, known for her work in television (Cagney & Lacey)...
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Prime Real Estate
In the words of Led Zeppelin, ''Upon us all, a little rain must fall.'' And so it does, briefly, at the beginning and end of...
