All posts by John Riley
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Medical Marijuana Makeover
Pat Hawkins is trying to remake the image of medical marijuana as the District prepares to make it a reality. Hawkins, a clinical social worker,...
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R.I. marriage-equality group airs online ads, plans “Weekend of Action” ahead of expected Senate vote
Rhode Islanders United for Marriage, the group seeking to legalize marriage equality in the Ocean State, released two online advertisements Monday and will hold three...
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New Hope Ministries To Settle Discrimination Suit
A transgender woman who was turned away from a D.C. women's temporary homeless shelter due to her gender identity has won her fight against the...
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Choi Appealing Conviction
Prominent gay rights activist and former Army Lt. Dan Choi has filed notice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that he...
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Montgomery Again Found Competent To Stand Trial
The Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones last year by stabbing her in the face as she waited at a Northeast...
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Six-Way Race Splits Support
Shawn Thomas is in a personal state of election fatigue. The 36-year-old Adams Morgan resident says he can't remember a time in recent years when...
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Watching the Detective
Jaime Wojdowski is ready to accept your complaints. An equal-opportunity specialist and investigator for the D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR), Wojdowski investigates complaints from...
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UPDATED: GLAA Asks Two D.C. Council Candidates To Apologize
Following an April 8 candidate debate featuring the six candidates running for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council, D.C.'s nonpartisan Gay and Lesbian Activists...
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Mark Herring Releases ''Equality Agenda'' for Virginia
Virginia state Sen. Mark Herring (D-Loudoun, Fairfax counties), one of two Democrats seeking to become the commonwealth's next attorney general, yesterday released an ''equality agenda''...
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D.C. Allen Makes $25,000 DC Center Donation
Washington businessman D.C. Allen, owner of 14th Street's Crew Club gay gym and spa, on April 2 announced a donation of $25,000 to The DC...
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Poth Trial Delayed
The trial of Michael Poth, the former Marine accused of fatally stabbing fellow Marine Philip Bushong during an altercation in D.C.’s Barracks Row neighborhood in...
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Crowd Rallies in D.C. for Transgender Health
A crowd of more than 100 people rallied at the Columbia Heights Plaza Saturday, March 30, to demonstrate support for equal treatment in health care...
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Choi Found Guilty
A U.S. magistrate judge Thursday found former Army Lt. Dan Choi, a gay rights activist who became famous for being discharged under the military's ''Don't...
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Rallying for Marriage at Supreme Court – Day 1
Metro Weekly's John Riley and Aram Vartian were outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 26, to talk to advocates -- and opponents -- of...
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Marriage Demonstrators Hit the Streets
The sidewalk on both sides of First Street NE was packed with people Tuesday morning as the U.S. Supreme Court heard the first of two...
