All posts tagged "politics"
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A Life Remembered
Bad news travels fast. And it shot across town like lightning last Wednesday, March 16, as news spread that Wanda Alston, 45, cabinet member and...
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Maya Keyes
Alan Keyes -- former ambassador, former presidential candidate, former Senate candidate, and Christian-right political pundit -- has made a name for himself as one of...
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Hostile Territory
''Why did you move to the hate state?'' That's what I've been asked, in various forms, since I left D.C.'s Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights neighborhood last...
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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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Local Leverage
By so many measures, the 2004 presidential race is unprecedented. The George W. Bush vs. John Kerry slugfest is breaking records with money spent and...
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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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Trans Mission
At the age of forty, a time when many people are contemplating the middle of their lives, Mara Keisling was at the beginning of a...
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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...
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The Marriage Man
It wasn't a likely first step to becoming a vanguard in the fight for marriage equality for gays and lesbians. But when Evan Wolfson wrote...
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Marching Forward
''I think SLDN has achieved more in ten years than anyone would have dared hope for,'' says C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of the Servicemembers...
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Crossing the Lines
If you work hard enough and long enough at something, then it's not a surprise when you find your efforts succeeding. For Riki Wilchins and...
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On the Ballot
''Remember those commercials, ‘Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything'?'' Chuck Wolfe laughs as he describes his early political days as the openly gay member...
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San Francisco Treat
Two weeks ago, on Valentine's Day weekend, I was fortunate enough to be able to act as a witness for many of the same-sex weddings...
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Just Married
Just before Valentine's Day Erwin Gomez was featured on Fox Morning News, doing make-up for a bride-to-be as part of the morning show's ''Wedding in...
