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	<title>Capital Pride Names 2013 &#226;&#128;&#156;Heroes&#226;&#128;&#157;: May 29 event set for Georgetown awards gala and silent auction</title>
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News: Capital Pride will honor five individuals as &#39;&#39;Pride Heroes&#44;&#39;&#39; as well as recognize a number of other community members for their various efforts on behalf of the LGBT community&#44; at its annual Heroes Gala and Silent Auction&#44; Wednesday&#44; May 29&#46; Capital Pride&#39;s 2013 Heroes are Ed Bailey&#44; entrepreneur and philanthropist&#44; an owner of Town Dancboutique and Number Nine lounge&#59; Barbara Lewis&#44; a doctor at Whitman&#45;Walker Health specializing in the treatment of HIV&#47;AIDS and culturally competent LGBT care&#59; Darren Phelps&#44; senior and founding pastor of Bethel Christian Church D&#46;C&#46;&#44; an LGBT&#45;inclusive church&#59; Maryland state Sen&#46; Jamie Raskin &#40;D&#45;Montgomery Co&#46;&#41;&#44; an advocate and ally on behalf of the LGBT community in his state&#39;s General Assembly&#59; and Margot Rosen&#44; director of membership outreach at Human Rights Campaign &#40;HRC&#41;&#46; Capital Pride will also honor Consuella Lopez&#44; a stylist and radio host&#44; who has been an activist for transgender rights&#46; Notably&#44; she was a campaign representative for the Transgender and Gender Identity Respect campaign for the D&#46;C&#46; Office of Human Rights&#46; Hassan Naveed&#44; co&#45;chair of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence &#40;GLOV&#41;&#44; which seeks to reduce the incidence of anti&#45;LGBT violence&#44; will also be honored&#46; The two will be recognized as &#39;&#39;engendered spirits&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>DC Front Runners Launch Pride Event: Set in Congressional Cemetery&#44; LGBT running group sets June 7 for inaugural 5K Pride Run</title>
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News: After a couple of false starts&#44; things are finally running smoothly for the DC Front Runners&#44; D&#46;C&#46;&#39;S LGBT running club&#44; as it prepares to host its inaugural Pride Run on Friday&#44; June 7&#46; &#39;&#39;We&#39;ve never done this before&#44;&#39;&#39; says Brian Beary&#44; co&#45;director of the Pride Run&#46; &#39;&#39;It&#39;s the first time we&#39;ve done anything like this in the club&#39;s history&#46;&#39;&#39; Beary notes that other cities&#39; running clubs have had festivities to kick off Pride season&#44; but the Front Runners initially had trouble locating a site for their run&#46; With the help of Paul Williams&#44; the president of Congressional Cemetery&#44; they finally settled on a venue&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Ebbin and Others Denounce Virginia GOP Ticket: Senator joined by Equality Virginia&#39;s Parrish and Del&#46; Herring in decrying nominees&#39; records</title>
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News: Two Democratic legislators and the head of a nonprofit organization advocating for LGBT rights in Virginia held a press call Tuesday to condemn the anti&#45;LGBT records and rhetoric used by the GOP&#39;s statewide candidates&#44; specifically Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&#44; candidate for governor&#44; and lieutenant governor nominee E&#46;W&#46; Jackson&#46; Virginia&#39;s only out member of the General Assembly&#44; Sen&#46; Adam Ebbin &#40;D&#45;Alexandria&#44; Arlington&#44; Fairfax Co&#46;&#41;&#59; Del&#46; Charniele Herring &#40;D&#45;Alexandria&#41;&#44; chair of the state Democratic Party&#59; and James Parrish&#44; executive director of LGBT&#45;rights organization Equality Virginia Advocates&#44; held the conference call to focus attention on the &#39;&#39;extreme and dangerous agenda&#39;&#39; of the GOP nominees&#44; chosen over the weekend at the state Republican Party&#39;s closed convention&#46; Adam Ebbin ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Virginia GOP Chooses Cuccinelli&#45;Jackson&#45;Obenshain Ticket: Republican picks for statewide office have notorious records of anti&#45;LGBT animus</title>
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News: Nearly 8&#44;000 Virginia Republican officeholders and activists gathered Saturday at the Greater Richmond Convention Center to select the party&#39;s candidates for governor&#44; lieutenant governor and attorney general&#46; The result is one of the most conservative candidate slates in recent memory&#46; The Republicans at Saturday&#39;s closed party convention &#38;ndash&#59; rather than a statewide primary&#44; which likely would have diluted some of the right&#45;leaning participation &#38;ndash&#59; selected Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli&#44; a tea party supporter and conservative firebrand who has been the presumptive nominee for the past year&#44; for governor&#46; Conservative minister E&#46;W&#46; Jackson secured the spot for lieutenant governor&#44; and state Sen&#46; Mark Obenshain &#40;R&#45;Harrisonburg&#44; Rockingham&#44; Rappahannock&#44; Warren&#44; Page and Shenandoah counties&#41; became the party&#39;s attorney general candidate&#46; Ken Cuccinelli and E&#46;W&#46; Jackson ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>LGBT Groups Slam Gov&#46; McDonnell on &#39;&#39;Virginia Adopts&#39;&#39;: New campaign for placement of children labeled hypocritical in light of McDonnell signing &#39;&#39;conscience clause&#39;&#39; law</title>
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News: LGBT groups are crying foul after Gov&#46; Bob McDonnell &#40;R&#41; launched a campaign Friday aimed at finding homes for a thousand of the nearly 4&#44;000 children in Virginia&#39;s foster care system&#46; The Family Equality Council and Equality Virginia are pointing out that McDonnell has previously restricted adoption and foster&#45;care options by signing into law a so&#45;called &#39;&#39;conscience clause&#39;&#39; bill that allows state&#45;licensed agencies to discriminate against prospective parents on sexual orientation and a variety of other factors&#46; A component of McDonnell&#39;s new &#39;&#39;Virginia Adopts&#39;&#39; initiative is the &#39;&#39;Campaign for 1&#44;000&#44;&#39;&#39; a goal of placing 1&#44;000 children in the state&#39;s foster&#45;care system with families across the commonwealth&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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