All posts by John Riley
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An August Race in Arlington
The two candidates running in a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Virginia House of Delegates sparred in a debate held at...
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Schwartz: An “Abomination” If I’m Left Out of Debates
With the Aug. 6 filing deadline for candidates to declare their candidacy behind them, some D.C. mayoral contenders are raising the issue of debates –...
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Hotline Call Frequency Slow But Regular
Last Friday, Aug. 1, marked the three-month anniversary for the LGBTQ Violence Response Hotline. Although there is still much more needed to publicize the 24-hour...
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Deadline Day for District Candidates
Tens of candidates for various offices in the District of Columbia found themselves racing this week to beat the 5 p.m. deadline on Wednesday, Aug. 6,...
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Peroutka Stands Firm on Ties to Anti-Gay Secessionist Group
Anne Arundel County Council candidate refuses to back away from association with the League of the South
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Transgender Teen Stabbed on Metro
A 24-year-old Greenbelt man is facing hate crime charges after allegedly stabbing a transgender teen while aboard a Metro train on Wednesday afternoon. Reginald Anthony Klaiber,...
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Gay ANC Commissioner Charged with Assault
A gay ANC Commissioner in Ward 2 has been charged with simple assault following an altercation stemming from his actions against a homeless man on...
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Immigration reform protest sparks action by LGBT Equality Caucus
The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus will draft a statement to Obama on needs of undocumented LGBT people
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SMYAL Taps Sultan Shakir
The Board of Directors of Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL), an organization dedicated to working with and empowering LGBTQ youth, announced early...
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Victory Fund Endorses Snowden for At-Large Seat
Courtney Snowden, a Democrat-turned-Independent seeking one of two at-large seats up this election cycle, received a boost when she netted an endorsement from the Gay...
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Maryland Eliminates Trans Healthcare Exclusions
FreeState Legal, the legal advocacy organization working on behalf of low-income LGBTQ Marylanders, announced Tuesday that the state of Maryland, in response to the threat...
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Simpson Earns Victory Fund Nod
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization dedicated to electing LGBT candidates to local, state and national office, is wading into the race for...
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Jill the Baptist
Jill McCrory welcomes questions. Tough questions, uncomfortable questions, questions with complex answers. The kind of questions that prompted her to leave the church for more...
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Prostitution-Free Zones Under Fire
The D.C. Council heard testimony last week on a bill that would repeal a controversial section of the D.C. Code that allows the chief of police...
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Lateefah Williams Enters AG Race
Lateefah Williams, the out lesbian former president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city’s top LGBT political organization, on Thursday officially announced her candidacy...
