All posts by John Riley
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AIDS Quilt's Double Duty
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, marking its 25th anniversary, is returning to D.C. The quilt, memorializing the victims lost to HIV/AIDS, was last displayed in full...
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Disparity Dialogue
A group of about 20 LGBT community members and advocates gathered in the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington June 14 to listen to local experts...
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DC Center Denied
The DC Center, the District's LGBT community center, was dealt a blow in its search for a permanent home after its proposal to rent a...
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District Releases Annual HIV Report
The theme yesterday with regard to HIV/AIDS and other transmittable diseases affecting the District was that progress is being made, but there's certainly more work...
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Area Hospitals Get High Marks
The D.C. metropolitan area is among the top regions in the country when it comes to the quality and LGBT-friendliness of health care policies and...
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Gay-Owned Social Driver Honored
The DC Chamber of Commerce recently named local digital agency Social Driver its DC Small Business Champion of 2012, making it the first LGBT-owned business...
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Whitman-Walker and Walgreens Join for HIV Testing
Whitman-Walker Health, the local nonprofit community health center that specializes in LGBT care and HIV/AIDS, will be providing free rapid HIV testing for three days...
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Washington County, Md., to Offer Benefits
Lambda Legal, an LGBT legal organization, announced June 13 that Washington County, in Maryland's panhandle, will extend spousal benefits to county employees with spouses of...
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Mayor Set To Sign
Mayor Vincent Gray (D) has set a date, June 22, to sign the recently passed bill to combat bullying, intimidation and harassment of youth in...
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Men's Summer Summits
Health activists, get ready for a busy July, because Washington will be playing the role of host city. With D.C. set to host the 19th...
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There's No Place Like Pride
It's nearly summer and pride is in the air. Thousands of locals and out-of-town visitors lined up along the District's streets and crowded onto Pennsylvania...
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BREAKING: Thorne-Begland Becomes Virginia's First Out Gay Judge
The openly gay prosecutor whose nomination for a judgeship was rejected by the Virginia General Assembly in May was temporarily appointed to Richmond General District...
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Obama Urges Support For Maryland Marriage Bill; O’Malley Vows to “Do All He Can,” Spokeswoman Says
Marriage equality supporters in Maryland got a boost from President Obama, who told a crowd at Baltimore’s Hyatt Regency hotel on Tuesday, June 12, that...
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BREAKING: Mendelson Wins Interim Chair, Michael Brown Takes Interim Pro Tem
Just one month after a special election in Ward 5 to replace former Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D), first elected in...
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Gray Wows at Town Hall
Speaking at a June 7 Capital Pride town-hall meeting at the Charles Sumner School at 17th and M Streets NW, Mayor Vincent Gray (D) received...
