News + Politics
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Opinion: Should a Publicly-Funded Charity Serve the Public?
If you receive public funds, should you have to serve the public? That is the question the Catholic Church is now asking itself. It seeks...
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Courting Inequality
As expected, the faction fighting against marriage equality in the District, led by Bishop Harry Jackson of the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., filed...
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Coverboy Contest: DC’s gay magazine has 41 hot male models who need your vote online
”As an actor, singer and model — who knows his way around a kitchen — 21-year-old Michael is a triple threat and then some.” —...
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“Tennis is ripe for an active player to come out.”
“I still say that tennis is ripe for an active player to come out. It’s an individual sport, so athletes need not worry about homophobic...
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The former Blade’s new DC Agenda
”What was once @WashingtonBlade is now @DCAgenda.” Twitter post from former staff of the now defunct gay newspaper, Washington Blade. It appears to indicate the...
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Washington Post’s faith profile embraces anti-gay, race-baiting Harry Jackson with TLC [video]
”It’s not a mission of hate. It’s a mission to protect godly boundaries…. Some of the smartest people I knew in college were gay…. I...
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Indignant Archidocese of Washington exhibits schizophrenic policies over gay marriage
”It has been my usual experience that people who stridently accuse others of things are themselves often most guilty of the attitudes they most decry...
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Federal Employees One Step Closer to Equal Benefits
A House committee on Wednesday evening approved a bill to provide equal benefits to gay federal employees with domestic partners, but not without a political...
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A New Agenda
Birthed with the gay rights movement after Stonewall, the Washington Blade was 40 years strong just a week ago. Older than some of its readers,...
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Promised Fireworks at Hearing Fizzle
There were expectations that Republicans would challenge openly gay EEOC nominee Chai Feldblum Thursday over some of her writings. Those writings included how non-discrimination laws...
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Gay Judgment Day
It's a gorgeous Sunday. Just about one of the last perfect days of 2009. But am I outside enjoying it? No. And why not? Two...
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Spiking in D.C.
More than 200 volleyball players from around the country, comprising 36 teams, will descend upon Washington next weekend for the 2009 Gay Volleyball Tournament. The...
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Local Leaders
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the long-running LGBT political organization in the District, has announced its 2010 election results. The majority of the former leadership...
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Mister Marcus Luncheon
Washingtonians who cannot travel to attend Marcus Hernandez's memorial on Saturday, Nov. 21, in his hometown San Francisco, are invited to gather and eat lunch...
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Anti-Gay Effort Rejected
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) on Tuesday rejected a proposed voter initiative that sought to define marriage as ''only between a man...
