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Maryland House of Delegates in Session and Scheduled to Vote on Gender Identity Bill Today
The Maryland House of Delegates is scheduled to discuss and vote on the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, House Bill 235, during the bill’s third and...
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Maryland Gender Identity Bill Passes 2nd Reading on House Floor, Third Reading Scheduled for Saturday
The Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, House Bill 235, went through its second reading this afternoon on the Maryland House of Delegates Floor and was ordered to...
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Maryland Gender Identity Bill Passes Through Committee 15-8
The Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act, House Bill 235, passed through the Maryland House’s Health and Government Operations Committee with a 15-8 favorable vote, according to Equality Maryland....
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Maryland GOP Delegate Holds Up Gender Identity Bill, Says She Needs Definition of “Transgender”
A bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing, employment, licensing and commercial leasing against transgender Marylanders was scheduled to be voted on...
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DADT Discharges for Fiscal Year 2010: 261
Despite the passage of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act in December 2010, numbers released today about discharges under the law in the year...
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Remembering Taylor's D.C. Contributions
Elizabeth Taylor was across the ocean, consoling Michael Jackson in Europe in 1993 just days before the Whitman-Walker Clinic ceremony dedicating its facility at 1701...
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Ninth Circuit Denies Request to Vacate Stay, Keeps Prop 8 in Effect During Appeal
In a brief order issued today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the plaintiffs’ request to vacate its earlier stay order,...
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Maryland Gender Identity Bill Moves Ahead
A bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination in the areas of housing, employment, licensing and commercial leasing, against transgender Marylanders, just passed its first hurdle,...
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Whitman-Walker Clinic releases statement on the passing of Elizabeth Taylor
“Elizabeth Taylor was the first major Hollywood star to take up the banner of HIV/AIDS activism. At a time when most Americans thought of HIV/AIDS...
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AQUA's New Board
Washington's gay Asian group, AQUA, welcomed its new board of directors last weekend with its first potluck for the new term. ''We have the whole...
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DOJ's New Scrutiny
The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division's report on its ''Investigation of the New Orleans Police Department,'' which was released on March 16, detailed serious...
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Star Trek’s George Takei blasts anti-gay iPhone app
”Thx Tweeps for helping get the homophobic Exodus app pulled today. Full power to forward shields!” Actor and gay rights activist George Takei, thanking his...
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“Ex-gay” Exodus app vanishes from Apple iTunes store
“Apple made a wise and responsible decision to dump an offensive app that demonized gay and lesbian people…. The real winners today are LGBT youth...
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Making Things Better
These days when we think of the phrase ''it gets better,'' we think of recent efforts to give hope to LGBT youth that as they...
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DOMA’s Dwindling Defenders — in Congress and Across the Country
On March 3, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri, introduced a resolution purporting to “demand that the Department of Justice continue to defend the...
