All posts tagged "eleanor holmes norton"
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LGBTQ Advocates Call For Stamp Honoring Bayard Rustin
In commemoration of Black queer civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s birthday, on March 17, the National Black Justice Coalition, the nation’s largest Black LGBTQ civil...
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Congresswoman Norton introduces resolution censuring Trump
Norton says censure resolution will be easier to pass than impeachment, due to the current Senate recess
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Stein Club members deadlock over primary endorsements in three of four D.C. wards
Ward 7's Vincent Gray was the only Democrat in a contested race to earn 60% of club members' votes
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BHT Foundation gives upwards of $70K to support LGBTQ and HIV nonprofits
Brother, Help Thyself, the organization that provides financial support to LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS nonprofits in the Baltimore-D.C. region, presented $71,500 to 26 nonprofits at its...
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Norton demands answers from U.S. Attorney’s Office on prosecuting hate crimes
Congresswoman wants information on office's decision-making process for prosecuting acts of anti-LGBTQ violence
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Norton questions D.C. U.S. Attorney’s record of prosecuting LGBTQ hate crimes
Letter comes in response to LGBTQ community concerns about holding hate-crime perpetrators accountable
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LGBTQ Candidate Spotlight: The DC Libertarian Party is running an all-gay slate in November’s elections
Martin Moulton, Bruce Majors, and Ethan and Joe Bishop-Henchman on why they believe the Libertarians can be D.C.'s second party
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Norton calls out First Amendment Defense Act for threatening D.C.’s civil rights laws
Bill would essentially gut D.C.'s pro-LGBTQ laws by treating the District as an extension of the federal government
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Norton introduces bill to protect LGBTQ rights from congressional meddling
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate to Congress, has introduced a bill to protect D.C.’s LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom laws...
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D.C. submits bid for Gay Games XI in 2022
Washington, D.C. is trying again for a chance to host the Gay Games in 2022 after losing out to Cleveland in 2014. Held every four...
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Walk & 5K To End HIV Celebrates 30 Years
Whitman-Walker's annual Walk & 5K to End HIV celebrates three decades of activism with a retro theme
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Senate appropriations bill emerges without D.C. riders
Senate refusal to attack D.C. nondiscrimination laws may bode well for coalition opposing congressional interference
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LGBT and pro-choice coalition stand united to oppose D.C. budget rider
Representatives from civil liberties, LGBT and reproductive rights groups have bonded together to fight against congressional interference in D.C. after a U.S. House of Representatives committee last...
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D.C. coalition stands strong against budget riders
A press conference of liberal-leaning advocacy groups was convened on Thursday by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The coalition is opposing attempts by Congress to...
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D.C. nondiscrimination laws go into effect today
Two contested D.C. Council bills appear to have survived a 30-day congressional review period required of all District legislation and are slated to go into effect today, Saturday, May...
