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Government Request Denied, DADT Injunction Remains in Place
After 5 p.m. Pacific Time today, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips denied the Department of Justice’s request for a stay pending the government’s appeal...
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Ninth Circuit Sets Schedule For LCR v. US Appeal
In an order entered by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, the court set the schedule for the appeal of the Log...
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Plaintiffs Oppose Appeal, Overturning of Prop 8 Case
The Perry v. Schwarzenegger plaintiffs filed their opposition papers in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday evening. The plaintiffs, led...
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Pentagon to Recruiters: Accept Applicants “Who Admit They Are Openly Gay or Lesbian”
In a sign of the wide-reaching impact of U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips’s injunction halting enforcment of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy,...
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Three Sisters at the Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center presents the exclusive North American engagement of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, the first the classic...
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Jill Sobule at Jammin Java
Jill Sobule is the original “I Kissed A Girl” pop singer — which was, apparently, the first song with an overtly gay topic aired on...
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Nick Hornby and Ben Folds
The Folger Shakespeare Library presents an exclusive evening with English novelist Nick Hornby and singer/musician Ben Folds, featuring a reading from Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked...
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Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC
Festival highlights of this year’s Jewish Literary Festival include Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor at The New Republic, discussing her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and...
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Stay Unlikely From Trial Judge in DADT Case
From The Advocate‘s Andrew Harmon, who was at today’s hearing: U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips issued a tentative ruling Monday rejecting the government’s request...
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Ken Buck’s opinion: People ‘choose’ to be gay, but have inborn influences ‘like alcoholism’
”I do . Based on what? I guess you can choose who your partner is… I think that birth...
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Gay media watch org disagrees with actor Vince Vaughn over ‘gay’ joke
”Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing dividing lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly...
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‘GLEE’ takes on ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ for Halloween episode
”It’s a great show for the Glee Club, because it’s a show for outcasts. It’s a show for people that are trying to find some...
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Nearly 128 Hours Later …
At 2:30 p.m. PT Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips will hold a hearing to determine whether the government is correct that the “Don’t...
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LCR Attorneys Respond to DOJ Stay Request in DADT Case
This afternoon in California, attorneys representing Log Cabin Republicans filed a brief in opposition to the U.S. government’s request for a stay of U.S. District...
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Undersecretary of Defense Stanley Issues DADT Case Memo
Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memorandum today, obtained by Metro Weekly, to the secretaries of the service branches detailing...
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Servicemembers United, Comparing Apples and Oranges
Today, Servicemembers United put out a news release to several hundred people, alerting LGBT and other progressive bloggers and other media to the fact that...
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BearCity at the Harman Center
In lieu of a full festival — that will wait until the spring — Reel Affirmations presents a few film screenings this month, kicking off...
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Paula Poundstone at The Birchmere
Longtime standup comic Paula Poundstone, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on NPR’s amusing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait"¦Don’t...
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Rachel Maddow interviews two gay Air Force members as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ dwindles
”I hear a lot of times that, people say don’t ask don’t tell works. I think that they’re not thinking beyond — they’re not thinking...
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News Analysis: Dellinger on DADT, Justice and a “Bold Step”
Former Acting Solicitor General and Duke Law professor Walter Dellinger, who served in the latter part of the Clinton administration, was on The Rachel Maddow...
