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D.C. debates how to cope with crime as reform bill heads to Senate
Just over three weeks after the D.C. Council overturned Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a controversial criminal code reform bill that the Council had passed unanimously last November, the...
View ArticleHRC issues state of emergency but forgets to ask us to vote
HRC President Kelley Robinson declared HRC’s first-ever national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans. The Human Rights Campaign issued a “National Warning and Guidebook” to Ensure Safety for LGBTQ+...
View ArticleIs being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?
My answer to the question: “Is being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?” is no. It’s the same answer I would give on whether just being Generation X, a millennial, a woman, or other minority, is enough to...
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Graphic novel ‘Smahtguy’ offers timely bio of Barney Frank
When he was in high school, gay cartoonist Eric Orner, who makes his graphic novel debut with “Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank,” didn’t like the food in the school cafeteria. “The...
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Activists call on Congress to end anti-trans policies at Capitol rally
About 60 people turned out Wednesday night, Nov. 15, on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol for a Trans Justice Rally in which participants demanded that Congress enact transgender supportive policies...
View ArticleA forever Pride stamp for gay Ambassador James C. Hormel
James C. Hormel, an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, and owner of Hormel Foods, a Fortune 500 multinational corporation, died on Aug. 13, 2021. He was 88 years old. Hormel was the first openly...
View ArticleThis Pride season, will LGBTQ Jews still belong?
Pride month is here — a time when many members of our LBGTQ+ community celebrate being part of an inclusive global movement where we can unapologetically be ourselves. But this year for many LGBTQ...
View ArticleMark Takano to lead Congressional Equality Caucus
Gay U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) will chair the LGBTQ Congressional Equality Caucus in the newly seated 119th Congress, he told Axios on Friday. “Over the next several years, we will see a...
View ArticleAlan Simpson: Republican from another country
The senator from Wyoming was authenticity itself — a Western force coming at you like a bobcat with a crooked smile. Indeed, the name of his ranch outside of Cody is the “Bobcat.” It was at the Bobcat...
View ArticleTrans people must be allowed to live full, safe lives
I have spent much of my life fighting for equality for all people. I grew up with parents who were refugees from Hitler, and am a first-generation gay, Jewish, American. I understand discrimination,...
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