All posts tagged "marriage"
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Partners Metro D.C.
Members of Partners Metro D.C. MISSION: Founded in 1996, Partners Metro D.C. supports committed gay and lesbian couples and fosters acceptance and understanding of these...
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Places at the Tables
There's a general rule of thumb when determining the level of commitment to an activist cause or outing: If one is willing to come out...
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Gay Tax Tips
With tax season upon us, you and your partner may be in for some good news: Some gay couples have a distinct advantage over married...
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Innocent Ads?
In modern politics, words and phrases that were once innocuous now seem packed with explosives. Red, blue, family, adoption, conservative, religious, faith, partner -- they've...
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Happy Together
With Valentine's Day around the corner and romantic merchandise for sale on all sides, it may seem inevitable to get a little cynical about romance....
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Now More Than Ever
It was fall of 1984 when Michael Hussey and Bennett DeOlazo went to a Trivial Pursuit party that set in motion a not-so-trivial pursuit for...
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A Gift of Harmony
In honor of the season of peace and harmony, I'm giving readers -- at least, those readers who have a partner -- the gift of...
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Shake-Up at HRC
Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...
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Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction
Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...
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Raising the Bar
Every state in the nation has an attorney general serving as top lawyer. So do American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and...
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Dropping the GOP
In the summer of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech in a small town in Kansas. No one knew then that Roosevelt -- who left...
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Rock the House
The organizers of the WEDRock benefit concert wanted to raise support for one of this year's most explosive issues, same-sex marriage. But they didn't want...
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Politics of Interpretation
Same-sex marriage has taken center stage in the 2004 presidential election. The Republican effort to amend the Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage from taking root...
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Signature Moments
''My mother won't explain it,'' says Paris Barclay of his offbeat but memorably elegant first name. ''She claimed she was reading mythology when I was...
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Leading the Charge
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...
