All posts by John Riley
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Baltimore County Grants Spousal Benefits
Baltimore County's Health Care Review Committee on Dec. 15 approved the county executive's recommendation to extend benefits to legally married county employees in same-sex relationships,...
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Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance Sets Agenda
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA), a nonpartisan political organization for the LGBT community and the oldest continuously operating one of...
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Furr Update
The U.S. government's case against Kenneth Furr, the Metropolitan Police Department officer who allegedly shot at a group of five people in a car, including...
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HRC Releases 2012 CEI UPDATED
In the D.C. area, LGBT-friendly corporate practices aren't just a sop to appease a special interest group. Rather, local businesses say it's a bargaining chip...
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Transgender Woman Stabbed
A 56-year-old transgender woman was stabbed while at a house in Northeast D.C.'s Kingman Park neighborhood at around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, marking the...
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First Runner-Up: Kory Davis
As far as Kory Davis is concerned, life's all about openness and honesty. The frank, outgoing 25-year-old tells it like it is. ''I just speak...
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Making a Clean Break
Despite a controversial walk-up to the passage of D.C. marriage equality in 2009, a recently introduced bill before the City Council that would permit same-sex...
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Jenkins-Miller Custody Fight Continues
A Virginia man who allegedly helped a woman escape the U.S. with her daughter in order to avoid giving custody of the girl to her...
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Cuccinelli To Run for Governor
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Old Dominion's firebrand and sometimes controversial top law enforcement officer, told his staff in a Dec. 1 email that...
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Willard Sentenced to Eight Years
The man who pleaded guilty to shooting a transgender woman in the neck and trying to rob her after she refused his request for oral...
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Gay Group Calls for Thomas To Go
Following the search of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) Brentwood home by FBI and IRS agents Dec. 2, the DC Log Cabin Republicans,...
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Locals Mark World AIDS Day
About a hundred community members and religious and civic leaders gathered at dusk at the fountain in Dupont Circle Dec. 1 for a candlelight vigil...
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DC Trans Coalition Hosts Town Hall
When it comes to transgender rights in the District, there's so much more to accomplish, transgender individuals and their allies say. But the volunteer nature...
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Witeck Wins Human Rights Award
Lifelong Arlington resident Bob Witeck, CEO of D.C.-based Witeck-Combs Communications, was one of four recipients honored with Arlington County's James B. Hunter Human Rights Award...
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Howard County Approves Gender Identity and Expression Non-Discrimination Bill
The Howard County Council has approved legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression, making it the third jurisdiction in Maryland to...
