Politics
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Obama criticized for omitting LGBT nondiscrimination from State of the Union
President Obama invoked the ire of LGBT-rights advocates Tuesday night as he failed to mention LGBT workplace protections during a State of the Union address...
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Equality Maryland issues second round of General Assembly endorsements
Equality Maryland PAC, the political action committee for Maryland’s major LGBT-rights organization, today released a second round of endorsements, 21, for General Assembly candidates, making...
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Obama takes executive action on wages, absent on LGBT nondiscrimination
After vowing earlier this month to take executive action on key issues if Congress won’t act, President Obama will sign an executive order raising the...
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McAuliffe rejects request for special counsel to defend Virginia’s gay marriage ban
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Monday refused to appoint a special counsel to defend a state law prohibiting recognition of any form of same-sex relationship...
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Virginia Senate kills second-parent adoption bill
A bill that would have allowed same-sex couples, as well as other adults not in a legally recognized marriage, to jointly adopt by means of...
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Virginia House of Delegates steamrolls more pro-LGBT bills
A Virginia House subcommittee Thursday continued the lower chamber’s annual rampage against LGBT rights by voting to table four bills, including two patroned by Republicans,...
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Signs of a coming gay reckoning for the GOP
Reince Priebus knows his party has a problem. Taking the stage Friday at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C., one didn’t have...
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Virginia attorney general refuses to defend state’s same-sex marriage ban
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) announced at a press conference Thursday that he would no longer defend the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex relationships,...
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Democrats win control of Virginia Senate with pro-LGBT candidate
Jennifer Wexton, the pro-equality, Equality Virginia PAC-endorsed Loudoun County resident and prosecutor seeking to replace Attorney General Mark Herring (D) in the Virginia Senate, romped...
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Utah sued for blocking recognition of married same-sex couples
The state of Utah is facing a new lawsuit for its decision to place state recognition of same-sex marriages “on hold” earlier this month. In a...
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Obama’s executive order problem
Prior to a meeting with his cabinet earlier this week, President Obama made a threat. With a portrait of George Washington looking down at him,...
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LGBT enthusiasm out in force for Clinton’s undeclared candidacy
The Iowa caucuses, which have long been the start of the presidential-nomination process, are more than 700 days away, but it felt like the height...
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U.S. sounds the alarm over anti-gay Nigerian law
The State Department and human rights advocates are voicing concerns over a new law in Nigeria that not only outlaws same-sex marriage, but LGBT organizations...
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Federal judge strikes down Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban
Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge Tuesday. “The Court holds that Oklahoma’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples...
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Chris Christie’s veto of transgender-rights bill enrages advocates
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation Monday that would have lessened the requirements for transgender individuals seeking to obtain an amended birth certificate in...
