All posts tagged "dc city council"
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Full Council Approves Beninda, Budd
The D.C. City Council unanimously confirmed the nominations of two transgender women to the 15-member D.C. Commission on Human Rights during a June 5 legislative...
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Anti-Bullying Bill on Track for Vote in D.C.
On April 20, as students around the country recognized the Day of Silence to remember LGBT students who lost their lives due to bullying or...
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McDuffie, Day Net Ward 5 Endorsements
It's endorsement time in the Ward 5 race. With less than a month remaining before the May 15 special election to replace former Ward 5...
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HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.
Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...
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Signs of Life for Anti-Bullying Initiatives in D.C.
A City Council bill aimed at preventing physical and electronic forms of harassment, intimidation and bullying in District schools, libraries, parks and recreation centers –...
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Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland
As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results...
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Stein Dems Endorse Muriel Bowser
The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.'s foremost LGBT Democratic organization, last night endorsed incumbent City Councilmember Muriel Bowser in her Ward 4 race with 72...
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Gay Republican Jumps into Crowded Field for Ward 5 Council Race
Tim Day, an openly gay Republican who ran against former Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) in 2010, announced his candidacy for the May 15...
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Prostitution Proposal Sparks Debate in DC
City Councilmembers Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) presided over a contentious hearing of the Judiciary Committee Tuesday that saw passionate testimony...
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LGBT Groups React to Thomas Resignation
Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. (D), generally perceived as an ally to the District's LGBT community, resigned from the council late in the evening,...
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Second-Guessing Support
Even his vote in favor of marriage equality may not be enough to salvage Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) political career among his LGBT...
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Making a Clean Break
Despite a controversial walk-up to the passage of D.C. marriage equality in 2009, a recently introduced bill before the City Council that would permit same-sex...
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Gay Group Calls for Thomas To Go
Following the search of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) Brentwood home by FBI and IRS agents Dec. 2, the DC Log Cabin Republicans,...
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D.C. in the Red
When I moved back East from Portland, Ore., I'd more or less had my fill of ''crunchiness.'' The guy I moved out there with had...
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Four Diligent Decades
It may not have been a courtroom, but one sunny afternoon in October 2009, a generic D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics hearing room was...
