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Bowser Taps David Do for API Affairs Post
Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced on Jan. 25 another addition to her mayoral cabinet, tapping David Do, an openly gay community and education activist and former candidate for...
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Stand by Your (Gay Marriage) Ban
The Marshall-Newman Amendment will stay embedded in Virginia's constitution for at least 3 more years
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Virginia Senate Subcommittee Sticks by Gay Marriage Ban
A Virginia Senate subcommittee is unswayed in its opposition to marriage equality, even though same-sex marriages are being performed in the commonwealth, and the voter-approved...
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Dead: Hate Crimes Bill Fails House Subcommittee
As expected, a bill that would have classified crimes or acts of violence committed against people because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or...
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Senate Committee Approves Employment Nondiscrimination
A Virginia Senate committee narrowly approved a bill prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public employment, moving the measure out of...
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Jacobson Elected State Board of Education President
The D.C. State Board of Education (SBOE) voted on Wednesday, Jan. 22 to elect openly gay SBOE member Jack Jacobson as president of the board,...
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Va. Senate Nixes Second-Parent Adoption Bill
A Virginia Senate committee voted 8-7 on Friday, Jan. 23, to reject a bill that would have allowed adults other than a person’s legally recognized...
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BHT Grant Money Boosts Nonprofits
Brother, Help Thyself Inc. (BHT), the local organization that provides yearly infusions of grant money to help support local nonprofits that deal with the LGBT...
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Conversion Therapy Ban for Minors Dies in Virginia Senate
A bill to prohibit the practice of conversion or “reparative” therapies that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity by licensed therapists...
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Bowser taps Alexander-Reid to head newly named LGBT Affairs office
Mayor Bowser taps Sheila Alexander-Reid to head newly named LGBT Affairs office
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Virginia’s Hate Crimes Bill Rests in Their Hands
When a Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates committee shuttled a hate crimes bill to a subcommittee on Jan. 15, it was considered a signal by political...
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Virginia Lags Behind on Equality Measures
Flanked by supporters, progressive leaders and legislative allies, Equality Virginia, the commonwealth’s top LGBT rights organization, held a press conference in the General Assembly House Briefing...
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Virginia’s Nondiscrimination Bills: One Dies, One Survives
A Virginia Senate committee deadlocked on two pro-LGBT bills and postponed a vote on a third on Monday afternoon, but LGBT rights advocates are still hoping...
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Va. House Hate Crimes Bill Shuttled to Subcommittee
One day after their Senate counterparts rejected a bill that would have added crimes committed against people because of their real or perceived sexual orientation...
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D.C. Council Introduces Surrogacy Bill
Families that wish to have children by utilizing surrogacy agreements are currently prohibited by District Law, but there’s fresh hope thanks to a bill unanimously...
