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Platform in Play
When news broke early last week that the Democratic Party had taken a giant step toward endorsing marriage equality as part of their national platform...
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HRC Cash To Aid Marriage-Equality Campaigns
Money makes the world go 'round. And extra dollars fuel the fight for equality. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT civil rights...
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Global LGBT Briefs: Jubilation in Entebbe, Marriage-Minded in France and Oz
Activists Arrested, But Uganda Pride a Success Despite arrests, some participants of Uganda's first LGBT Pride festival say the inaugural event was a relative success,...
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National LGBT Briefs: Chicken and Chill
Chick-fil-A Push and Pull In the wake of the latest Chick-fil-A brouhaha – with company President Dan Cathy making recent statements against marriage equality, followed...
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August Sizzler
It's probably impossible to leave a production of August: Osage County without feeling a pang or two of familial guilt. But whatever you do, don't...
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Uking it Up
''Did you know we had 964 ukulele players last year?'' Marcy Marxer is reminiscing about the success of last year's UkeFest at Strathmore, which attracted...
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Field Goals
It seems fair enough to say that Wade Davis has an impulsive streak. Six years ago on Christmas Eve, stranded in a Chicago airport by...
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D.C. Chamber Chosen
This morning, at the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce's 9th Annual National Business & Leadership Conference, now on in Chicago, the organization honored...
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Stay secure: Configuring Google’s two-step authentication
Macworld posted a great article about configuring Google’s two-step authentication to help you avoid the kind of security fail that befell Wired’s Mat Honan. Though...
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Corcoran’s Save the Date: Wedding as Performance Art
Kathryn Cornelius will go through the motions of marrying — and divorcing — seven suitors, both men and women, over the course of the day...
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GMCW’s Open Mike Night
Singers of all levels are welcome to perform solos, duets or even sing-a-long with members of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington at its monthly...
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Anti-Gay Group Challenges Marriage Equality In New York
An anti-gay group requested today that New York’s highest court review a lower court’s decision to dismiss their lawsuit against the state’s marriage equality law....
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Obamacare Protects Transgender People from Discrimination
A section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that protects against sexual discrimination will also apply to transgender people, according to a letter...
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Chavela Vargas, defiant lesbian singer, dies at age 93
“What hurt was not being homosexual, but when they throw it in my face as if it were the plague.” Famed singer Chavela Vargas writing in...
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MGM Resorts plans a celebration of food and wine in gay-friendly Las Vegas
It will be a celebration of food and libations on the The Strip in Las Vegas from October 5 to 7 for MGM Resorts’ Food & Wine...
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LHP Names New VP
At the group's monthly meeting in July, the local 12-year-old Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) elected its first vice president, Esther Hidalgo. Hidalgo has worked...
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Samsung announces August release of Galaxy Note 10.1
Samsung has announced it will release The Galaxy Note 10.1 “globally in August.” The exact date has not yet been specified. Ben Woods in ZD...
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Video: Two-year-old girl gets “exoskeleton” assist via 3D printing technology
This remarkable video shows Emma, a two-year-old born with arthrogryposis, a rare disease that keeps her from raising her arms without assistance. A Delaware hospital...
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D.C. Rolling Out Trans Ads
It's all about respect. That's the message of the latest campaign by the D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR). Hitting its stride with its current...
