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  • Forgiving Bill Clinton

    By on March 14, 2013

    Gay opinions on Bill Clinton were always mixed. On election night in 1992, Washington's Shoreham Hotel – where gay activists had zapped the American Psychiatric...

  • Seaside Celebration

    By on September 19, 2012

    A sold-out gala honoring veterans, servicemembers and activists in the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' repeal effort was held Tuesday evening, Sept. 18, with 1,100 attendees...

  • High-Dollar Dem Donors Talk With Obama, Celebrating LGBT Successes But Looking for More

    By on February 10, 2012

    [Photo: Contractors, Obama for America staff and attendees of Feb. 9, 2012, fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election work and mill around outside the D.C. home...

  • Becoming Law

    By on September 29, 2011

    The conclusion of a four-part series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act By the time the Senate passed...

  • Domestic Disturbance

    By on May 4, 2011

    Part One of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act Talking with Andrew Sullivan about marriage is...

  • Punch-Line Politics

    By on December 9, 2009

    Two transgender rabbis walk into a bar.... Wait, scratch that. Riki Wilchins, among the most prominent voices in America's gender-identity discourse, has taken a new...

  • Cutting through the Static

    By on August 17, 2005

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was famously wrong in his declaration, ''There are no second acts in American lives.'' Americans, particularly those in the public eye, have...

  • Birch Society

    By on August 10, 2005

    Move over Univision, BET, and Lifetime Television for Women -- we have arrived. While American entertainment has long had gay flavor, the dawn of here!...

  • Leading the Charge

    By on June 30, 2004

    Cheryl Jacques had a tough act to follow when she arrived in D.C. last January to take the helm of the Human Rights Campaign. The...

  • Changeover

    By on November 5, 2003

    Massachusetts State Senator Cheryl Jacques will become the next president and executive director of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the organization announced on Monday, following...

  • Building Blocks

    By on October 15, 2003

    The new HRC headquarters building at 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW. (Photo by Michael Wichita) Blue and yellow confetti filled the air at...

  • On the Agenda

    By on June 4, 2003

    More than 300 people started Capital Pride week at a panel discussion on the ''gay agenda.'' (Photo by Michael Wichita) Is there a gay agenda?...