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Obama to Send Gay Brigade to Afghanistan: Everyone Happy!

Dan Mirvish | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

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According to one Department of Defense adviser, the Obama administration has found a creative way to both pacify the gay rights community and placate hawks who'd urged him to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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Our Generation's Defining Struggle

David Vines | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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Whether we like it or not, the fight for gay rights will be our struggle. Gay rights, not just the legal institution of marriage, but indeed rights, is what we must fight for.

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Lady Gaga and Obama for Gay America

Michael Solis | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

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For America's LGBT community last weekend, seeing both Lady Gaga and Obama teaming up to address the community's struggle for civil rights and equality was a welcome surprise.

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White House Talks DADT Repeal With Lieberman

The Advocate | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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Shortly after President Barack Obama pledged Saturday to end "don't ask, don't tell" during a speech to the Human Rights Campaign, the Administration'...

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It's About The Priorities, Stupid

Lady Bunny | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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I'm a person who needs health care first. And a gay person second. And the vote on health care is tomorrow! How can that not be gays' and everyone else's primary focus now?

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Obama Uses Well-Placed Jokes, Vague Promises To Cool Off The Gays

Julie Farby | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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On Saturday night, President Barack Obama spoke at the Human Rights Campaign dinner, where he addressed all the ways he's failed to help the one community it's still OK to constitutionally neglect.

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The Pen-Stroke Fallacy

Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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A reversal of DADT that comes up from the bottom rather than down from the top will be much harder for a Republican president to undo. Yes, patience in the face of injustice is hard. But that doesn't make impatience a virtue.

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National Equality March: Photos From October 11, 2009

Posted 10.12.2009 | Impact

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Yesterday's National Equality March in Washington D.C. was the largest LGBT action gathering in almost a decade. Tens of thousands marched on the nati...

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Ambassador Jim Hormel: "I Don't Have Time to Wait!"

Karen Ocamb | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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"I am as eager as anyone else to have action .. So when I exercise any restraint, it's out of knowledge and awareness of the atmosphere under which the president is operating," says Hormel

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NBC Reporter: Obama White House Views Gay Rights Protesters As 'Internet Left Fringe' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

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The White House believes protesters at Sunday's gay rights march in D.C. are part of the "internet left fringe," according to CNBC's Chief Washington ...

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The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

Jay Michaelson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

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Where are the GLBT prophets who call us all to account? If it is true that denying marriage to gays is a moral deficiency, why haven't gay leaders framed it that way?

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Obama's Speech (TEXT): Transcript Of President Obama's Speech About Gay Rights

Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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The official transcript of President Obama's address at The Human Rights Campaign's 13th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, as released by the White ...

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Joseph Rocha: Gay Former Sailor Details Abuse In Navy Despite Keeping His Sexuality A Secret

Washington Post | Joseph Rocha | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

I was 18 years old when I landed in the kingdom of Bahrain, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in the winter of 2005. It was the first time I'd ever left ...

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Obama's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Pledge Questioned By Gays

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama restated his campaign pledge to allow homosexual men and women to serve openly in the military, but many in ...

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Rousing Speech, Mr. President, But the Pressure Continues

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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The president, fresh from his Nobel Prize for Peace, didn't mention anything about a timeline for ending don't ask, don't tell, and as he has said on other occasions, nothing happens in Washington without a timeline.

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Obama's HRC Speech (VIDEO): President Obama Says He Will End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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Watch President Obama's address at the Human Rights Campaign's banquet in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10. President Obama pledged to end the ban on homo...

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Obama HRC Speech: "I Will End Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Says President Obama

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reaffirmed his campaign pledge to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Satu...

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Bill Maher: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Because It Will Make Rush Limbaugh "Explode" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy

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On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher suggested that this weekend was the perfect time for President Obama to announce that he would repeal "don't as...

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Barack Obama: America's First Gay President?

Timothy Patrick McCarthy | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Election Day 2008 was one of the greatest days of my life: We finally had an ally in the White House who would fight with and for us. In retrospect, we were foolish to have such hope.

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What Would a Nobel Laureate Tell the Gays?

John Aravosis | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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President Obama will speak Saturday night at the Human Rights Campaign national dinner. The big question in gay-land is what will Obama say. I fear the answer is: Not much.

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Edie Disler, Air Force Academy Professor, Disciplined For "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Discussion

Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

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A professor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Edie Disler, alleges that she has been disciplined for inviting gay Academy graduates to spe...

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New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights

Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy

This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.

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The Civil Rights Test of Our Generation

Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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It's time to end discrimination based on sexual identity or orientation. That's why I'm committed to equal rights for all Americans, and to repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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President Obama Should Show He's Queer Like Us

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Show the world, Mr. President, how we are just like you, and perhaps more important, how you are just like us: In what ways are we pretty normal, and in what ways are you kinda Queer?

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It's Chow Time at the White House, Brother

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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What gays and lesbians are looking for -- and will be marching for on Sunday -- is nothing special, and that's exactly the point. It's what every other American already has: equal treatment under the law

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