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Equality Virginia, HOME launch initiative for Fair Housing Month
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, and Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. (HOME), a Richmond nonprofit and housing counseling agency, are launching an...
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Infertility coverage, transgender birth certificate bills pass first hurdle in Md.
The Maryland House of Delegates and Senate last week successfully passed, by large margins, their own versions of two bills containing pro-equality provisions that will...
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Commonwealth Dinner to honor OUTstanding Virginians
Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, is gearing up for its its annual celebration and fundraiser, slated to be held on Saturday, April...
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Masa 14 dress code policy draws outrage [Updated]
A photograph of a notice taped to the front door of the of Masa 14 published today on the blog Popville has drawn some unwelcome attention...
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Patrick Paschall to head FreeState Legal
FreeState Legal, Maryland’s legal advocacy organization for low-income members of the state’s LGBT community, on March 18th named Patrick Paschall as its next executive director....
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Latino GLBT History Project elects new officers
The Latino GLBT History Project (LHP) has a new leadership team. Elected March 21st by the board of directors, they will focus on preserving and educating...
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LaRuby May runs away with Stein endorsement in Ward 8 race
LaRuby May has surged to victory at the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club’s Ward 8 endorsement forum. One of 13 candidates running in the April 28...
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Suspect in Deoni Jones killing found competent to stand trial
It’s been more than three years since transgender youth Deoni Jones was stabbed to death on February 2, 2012. On Friday morning, a mental observation...
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Bowser to honor “Sheroes” of LGBT movement
As part of Women’s History Month, the Office of GLBT Affairs, partnering with the Mayor’s Office on Women’s Policy & Initiatives and the Mayor’s Office...
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A Home with Heart
“If I can make it, anyone can,” says Ruby Corado as she walks around an empty three-story house in Columbia Heights. The building is in...
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Cruz and Lankford introduce resolution of disapproval to overturn Council bill
Cruz and Lankford introduce resolution of disapproval to overturn Council bill
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First LGBT contingent to march in D.C. St. Patrick’s Day Parade
When Dr. Pat Hawkins was growing up in Grosse Pointe, Mich. as a child, her parents always used to take her to see Detroit’s St....
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Norton hits back at Heritage Foundation over Human Rights Amendment Act
D.C.’s non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress slammed conservative think tank Heritage Foundation for its attempts to convince the D.C. Council to abandon plans to...
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Bunn, Toliver, Powell top GLAA’s candidate ratings
On Wednesday, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) of Washington, D.C. released its ratings for candidates running in the April 28 special elections for the...
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Senate shuffle may open up opportunities
LGBT candidates could seek promotion in wake of Mikulski retirement
