Search results for "Supreme Court civil rights act"
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State of Mind
It's been a busy a time in Maryland. And that suits Dan Furmansky just fine. The 32-year-old executive director of Equality Maryland, the state's most...
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Joe Solmonese
''This weekend is all about the election.'' As almost 200 people are streaming into D.C. for the Human Rights Campaign's annual spring meeting, Joe Solmonese...
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FAIR's Fair?
Much of the reaction to the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR to uphold the Solomon Amendment has been ill-informed. Commentators, especially in...
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The Big Picture
Waves of Relief (Photo courtesy of Connect) AS 2004 CLOSED OUT with the tsunami of gargantuan proportions, 2005 saw more of the same. And the...
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A Sigh of Relief
How did John Roberts do at his hearing to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Before the hearing, I laid out five...
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Cutting through the Static
F. Scott Fitzgerald was famously wrong in his declaration, ''There are no second acts in American lives.'' Americans, particularly those in the public eye, have...
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Follicle Follies
Big Fun, Hon: The cast of Hairspray If big, bright, near-burlesque, singing, dancing, toe-tapping, knee-slapping, hair-hopping, infectiously giddy Broadway musicals aren't your thing, then steer...
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Mayoral Outreach
In March, everyone in the city knew that the mayor's cabinet included an Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs. But what would normally...
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Hostile Territory
''Why did you move to the hate state?'' That's what I've been asked, in various forms, since I left D.C.'s Adams Morgan/Columbia Heights neighborhood last...
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Next Exit 4 Years: Mapping a New Direction
Los Angeles and New York may be the country's cultural poles, but Washington sets the tone. The web of executive decisions, bureaucratic regulations, Supreme Court...
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Finding the Center
It's an unassuming place, Stead Park, bounded on two sides by streets that define to a large extent the center of the gay and lesbian...
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Leading the Charge
Cheryl Jacques had a tough act to follow when she arrived in D.C. last January to take the helm of the Human Rights Campaign. The...
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Letter from Cornelius Baker
As Charles Dickens wrote, ''it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'' For the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community, it...
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The Marriage Man
It wasn't a likely first step to becoming a vanguard in the fight for marriage equality for gays and lesbians. But when Evan Wolfson wrote...
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Marching Forward
''I think SLDN has achieved more in ten years than anyone would have dared hope for,'' says C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of the Servicemembers...
