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Women’s March in Los Angeles on Saturday

January 20, 2017

January 20, 2017 214

BY KAREN OCAMB |  The day after one of the darkest inaugural addresses in American history, women and their allies...

Trump pledges renewed America in inauguration speech

January 20, 2017

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Just as President Trump took to the podium to deliver his inaugural address, a light rain began to fall on...

UPDATED: Trump Inauguration marred by dark rhetoric, rain and protests

January 20, 2017

January 20, 2017 124

BY KAREN OCAMB  |   The Etch-a-Sketch of history shook the American consciousness and seemed to instantly erase LGBT visibility...

LGBT advocates plan to ‘defy’ Trump

January 19, 2017

January 19, 2017 145

With the stage set — literally — for the inauguration on Friday of Donald Trump as the 45th president of...

Gay Republicans optimistic about Trump presidency

January 19, 2017

January 19, 2017 199

On the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, gay Republican activists from D.C., Florida, and Nevada told the Washington Blade...

In farewell, Obama says “Don’t mope over election. It’ll be OK”

January 18, 2017

January 18, 2017 158

Like a cool drink of water on a scorching political day, roughly 41 frenzied hours before Donald Trump’s controversial inauguration,...

Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, transgender ex-army analyst who gave files to Wikileaks

January 17, 2017

January 17, 2017 131

The New York Times reports: “President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army...

Trump’s Supreme Court nominees are a who’s who of antigay activist judges

January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 2,183

President-elect Donald Trump said during his first press conference since winning the election, on Jan. 11, said “we’ve met” with...

The Gutting of Donald Trump

January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 198

BY KRISTEN PRATA BROWDE  |  It’s no secret that the Republican establishment has never been happy with the loudmouthed RINO who...

Tillerson declines to say whether ‘gay rights are human rights’

January 11, 2017

January 11, 2017 132

President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of state on Wednesday declined to specifically say whether “gay rights are human rights.” “American...