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  • Anti-Gay Effort Rejected

    By on November 18, 2009

    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...

  • Anti-Gay Effort Rejected

    By on November 17, 2009

    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...

  • Convocation to Council

    By on October 7, 2009

    Fresh from his flight home from Germany, where he was part of the final yet unsuccessful push to secure Washington's Gay Games bid for 2014,...

  • Parliamentary Patchwork

    By on September 2, 2009

    The District government on Friday, Aug. 28, released some points concerning the new laws recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions and eliminating discrimination in...

  • Political Split

    By on August 19, 2009

    Four months after being fired from his post as the director of the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation -- the highest openly gay appointee...

  • Citizen Legislator

    By on July 29, 2009

    Bob Summersgill From childhood, when his father took him to Cape Canaveral to watch the last manned moon launch in 1972, to college when he...

  • Sowing Success

    By on July 8, 2009

    The authors of the Dallas Principles, a proposed set of core values for achieving LGBT equality, have been criticized for their invitation-only meeting at a...

  • Principles and Pragmatism

    By on July 1, 2009

    IT IS SOMETIMES DONE with baby steps, other times with great leaps, and every so often it's done in circles. Still, advocates and enemies alike...

  • Divine Intervention

    By on June 3, 2009

    When it comes to marriage equality, the conventional wisdom is that God is on the side of those opposed, that homophobic clergy are the rule...

  • Marriage Milestone

    By on April 8, 2009

    Same-gender couples married in states or countries where marriage equality is already the law will soon be recognized by the District as legally married, should...

  • Partners in Limbo

    By on March 4, 2009

    Nearly three weeks ago, Feb. 16, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) issued an ''action alert'' asking locals to urge Mayor Adrian Fenty to...

  • There's Smoke, No Ire

    By on August 13, 2008

    Not long ago, smoking was a contentious topic in the local GLBT community with an intense -- and occasionally acrimonious -- debate over a ban...

  • Bob Summersgill

    By on June 11, 2008

    When it comes to super heroes, the stories are all the more compelling when they've taken a beating. Maybe the same holds for Capital Pride...

  • 2008 Capital Pride Heroes

    By on June 4, 2008

    Each year, the Capital Pride Planning Committee selects a number of individuals to honor as ''Capital Pride Heroes.'' These six honorees have made extraordinary efforts...

  • Hello, Heroes

    By on May 21, 2008

    The Capital Pride Planning Committee, the body responsible for Washington's annual Capital Pride celebration, has selected six people to be honored as this year's Capital...