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Gender and SexualityOctober 12, 2000
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Political FiguresAugust 10, 2000
Tricky Dick
When Dubya picked Dick Cheney as his running mate, the little screen was awash in flatulent flatteries from the chattering classes: “a grown-up,” “presidential,” “all steak and no sizzle” were
Doug Ireland
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Gender and SexualityJune 22, 2000
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Gender and SexualityJanuary 27, 2000
California’s Knightmare
W hen the Vermont Supreme Court ruled December 20 that denying the statutory benefits and protections of marriage to same-sex couples was discriminatory, conservatives began frothing at the mouth
Doug Ireland
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Gender and SexualityJanuary 13, 2000
Gay Teens Fight Back
Jared Nayfack was 11 years old and living in the heart of conservative Orange County, California, when he told his best friend from school that he was gay–“and my friend then came out to me,” sa
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Election 2000September 2, 1999
Buchanan Breaks Ranks
In Washington, a city in which (to borrow a phrase from Virginia Woolf) all is gossip, corruption and chatter, the end-of-summer buzz has been about Pat Buchanan and whether he’ll bolt the Republic
Doug Ireland and Micah L. Sifry
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Campaigns and ElectionsAugust 5, 1999
Gloves Off in the Garden State
The newly regilded dome of Trenton’s state capitol may be shimmering under the intense summer sun, but if New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman’s entourage is sweating bullets these days, it
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Gender and SexualityJune 24, 1999
No Protection for Gays
There’s a bill speeding its way through Congress that would shred much of the protection against discrimination provided by the dozens of local and state gay civil rights laws.
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Gender and SexualityJune 24, 1999
Rebuilding the Gay Movement
When Republican Senator Al D’Amato was endorsed for re-election last November by the Human Rights Campaign–the nation’s wealthiest gay civil rights lobby–the HRC’s appalling decision crystalliz
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