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Hope Bill Targets Conversion Therapies
Amid the controversy surrounding a billboard in the Richmond area that claims that “nobody is born gay,” as well as the District of Columbia’s historic...
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Montgomery to Pursue Insanity Defense
Lawyers for Gary Niles Montgomery, the man accused of fatally stabbing transgender woman Deoni Jones while she was waiting at a Northeast D.C. bus stop...
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Va. School Board Votes Against Transgender Student
The Gloucester County (Va.) School Board voted 6-1 on Tuesday to approve a motion that limits transgender students to using the bathroom assigned to their...
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HRC Holds Fundraiser for Transgender Summer Camp
For Lori, a D.C. parent of a transgender youth, her son’s return from summer camp last year showed a marked difference in his attitude. “From...
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Council Repeals Armstrong Amendment
The D.C. Council on Tuesday passed a bill repealing an act of Congress known as the Armstrong Amendment, which carves out an exemption to sexual...
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Opponents Vow to Fight Gay Conversion Therapy Ban
Days after the D.C. Council unanimously passed the Conversion Therapy for Minors Prohibition Amendment Act banning licensed therapists and mental health practitioners from using conversion...
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AGLA Names Equality Award Winners
The Arlington Gay & Lesbian Alliance (AGLA), a Virginia-based organization seeking to improve the lives of LGBT people and build relationships with potential allies through...
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D.C. Bans Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill that would prohibit the use on minors of conversion or “reparative” therapy, or other “sexual orientation...
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GLOV Guardian Awards
Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence (GLOV), the D.C.-area organization dedicated to combating anti-LGBT hate crimes and intimate partner violence, announced on Monday the recipients of...
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Candlelight Vigil to Mark World AIDS Day
Whitman-Walker Health will host a candlelight vigil tonight, Monday, Dec. 1, to commemorate World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day, now in its 27th year, remembers...
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Transgender Female Assaulted in Dupont Establishment
Thanksgiving transgender attack could not have happened at Level One/Cobalt, which was closed at the time
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Remembering Marion Barry
Former mayor was one of the first D.C. politicians to embrace LGBT rights
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Trans Community Calls for Solidarity
Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial service results in calls to action, ending with $10K donation
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PFLAG House Party Celebrates Progress
Metro DC PFLAG Board Member Tracie Felker and her husband Oliver Tessier, the parents of two openly gay Eagle Scouts, are hosting a party for...
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Virginia says “Welcome” to LGBT tourists
Statewide LGBT Tourism Task Force annouced by Governor McAuliffe
