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Salt Lake Prosecutor will not pursue case against kissing gay couple
”The two individuals believed — albeit mistakenly — that they had the right to be there. Fairness requires that either that property be not open...
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Chicago: Should municipal contracts be set aside for gays, too?
”We know we’ve been disadvantaged. But, there are programs for women already. And the perception is this would only enhance gay white males. That’s why...
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GLBT Budget Burden
The good news came in June. The bad news followed in July. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) needs to find ways to close a projected budget...
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October's Advance
There’s a ticking time bomb on the Equality Across America Web site. At least, that's how some local activists, like Michael Crawford, might view the...
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Citizen Legislator
Bob Summersgill From childhood, when his father took him to Cape Canaveral to watch the last manned moon launch in 1972, to college when he...
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G-rated Gay
Children and I don’t really mix well. When they’re near me, when I bear even the remotest responsibility for them, I’m terrified they’ll get hurt....
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Steele Town
DJ Billy Steele (Photo by Liz Liguori) DJ Billy Steele is about to fulfill a career-long dream. “I’ve been wanting to play [D.C. for...
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Adventuring
I’m guessing in war there’s no room for screwing up. Even if your equipment is faulty, you have to make it work. You also have...
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Purring Along
James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead was one of the first plays to address gay themes. But it was originally a flop on Broadway,...
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Fairy Dust
“The story is, like all Gilbert and Sullivan, very silly,” says Jill Strachan, executive director of the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, of Iolanthe. “Some...
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Leukemia Laughs
Though it happens all the time in movies or in sitcoms, I’ve never actually known someone to make a deal with a cabbie that the...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It would be easy to say that it is what it is -- too easy. These are the times we need to buckle...
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Disconnect Effect
Relaxing on the beach in Rehoboth earlier this month, Ben Thompson scooped up all of his things in a flash as an unexpectedly strong wave...
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Pulp
You’ll always find a fun mood inside Pulp. The shop's founder Ron Henderson, who died in February, left a legacy of levity. ''He always showed...
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Money vs. wishful thinking: Frowned-upon efforts to quickly overturn anti-gay Proposition 8 run into reality
”In conversations with a number of my fellow major No on 8 donors. I find that they share my sentiment: namely, that we will step...
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Lions Club’s ”Catfish Derby” catches flack for denying lesbians a ‘couple’s discount’
”I wasn’t making any statement against lesbians, I’ll tell you that right now. I have nothing against them at all. I was just trying to...
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New DC law extends parental rights to consenting lesbians in cases of artificial insemination
”The new law, which took effect on July 18, 2009, provides that when a woman bears a child conceived by artificial insemination, and her spouse...
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Who’s Bryce Faulkner? 23-year-old student sent to Ex-Gay Camp: His boyfriend, parents squabble publicly [video]
”He’s fine. All the stories you’ve been told are not true…. Bryce] got caught up with friends who were pulling him that way. He just...
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Mexican-American Judge Carlos Moreno still proud of Proposition 8
”Someday at some point my dissent will be the majority view in California. I think that’s where the law is headed. Equal protection is either...
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Walter Cronkite “zapped” into becoming friend of gays recalls PGN news publisher
”He was the kind of man who believed in human rights for everyone. I am amazed and humbled by his willingness to reach out to...
