All posts by John Riley
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Trump anti-gay Agriculture Department pick withdraws nomination
Sam Clovis has argued that homosexuality is a choice and has equated gay marriage to pedophilia
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Congress members file SCOTUS brief in support of gay couple denied wedding cake
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced that 35 senators and 175 U.S. House members have joined...
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Food and Friends’ Slice of Life makes giving easy and delicious
Food & Friends is donating 10% from this year's Slice of Life to help those in Puerto Rico
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Former D.C. councilmember Carol Schwartz gets personal and political in new memoir
"Quite a Life!" celebrates Schwartz's rise to become a D.C. political fixture
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Two petitions call out Catholic bishop for denying funeral rites to LGBTQ people
Two petitions are being circulated online protesting the Roman Catholic diocese of Madison, Wis., for recently released guidance suggesting that priests should refuse to perform...
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Ralph Northam makes final appeal to LGBTQ voters before Virginia governor election
Northam says his Republican opponent can't be trusted to stand up to extremists in his party
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Virginia AG Mark Herring stands by his record on LGBTQ rights
If you listen to Republican attack ads, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is a controversial figure obsessed with social issues who is bending the law...
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Dana Beyer to run for Maryland State Senate in 2018
Longtime activist says Democrats must take back democracy from the alt-right
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U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning anti-LGBTQ violence in Chechnya
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed, via voice vote, a resolution condemning the violence and persecution directed against LGBTQ people in Chechnya. The resolution is...
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Briefs urge Supreme Court to oppose baker’s request to refuse service
A host of LGBTQ groups and their allies in the political, legal, and business communities submitted a host of amicus briefs in support of Charlie...
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D.C. loses out to Hong Kong in bid for 2022 Gay Games
Washington, D.C.’s LGBTQ sports community was dealt another blow in its second attempt to host the quadrennial Gay Games, after the games’ governing body named...
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Federal court halts Trump’s transgender military ban
On Monday afternoon, a federal court in Washington blocked the Trump administration’s planned implementation of a ban prohibiting transgender individuals from serving in the U.S....
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Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris urge HRC dinner attendees to continue the fight for equality
HRC uses dinner to cement itself as the LGBTQ leader of the resistance to Trump administration policies
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Georgia State Rep. Betty Price under fire for calling for quarantine of people with HIV
A Georgia state representative is defending a comment she made when she raised the possibility of quarantining people living with HIV as a way of...
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Kentucky judge who refused to hear same-sex adoption cases resigns
A family court judge in Kentucky who tried to recuse himself from hearing cases involving LGBTQ couples has tendered his resignation. Judge W. Mitchell Nance,...
