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  • An Ally's Death

    By on January 13, 2008

    When Maryland's equal rights organization, Equality Maryland, approached democratic State Senator Gwendolyn T. Britt in September about being a lead sponsor of a bill that...

  • Resolution to Wed

    By on December 19, 2007

    The Kensington, Md., Town Council passed a civil marriage equality resolution on Monday, Dec. 10, calling on Maryland legislators to enact the Religious Freedom &...

  • Marriage Options

    By on November 28, 2007

    In conjunction with The Center, ''Home for GLBT in Metro DC,'' DC for Marriage, a nascent local organization, will present a public forum to discuss...

  • All in the Family

    By on October 31, 2007

    Elbridge James can admit that advocating for gay rights wasn't an effort he embraced overnight. ''It's a process that took more than 20 years,'' says...

  • Marriage Blow to Maryland

    By on September 19, 2007

    Mere hours after the Maryland Court of Appeals announced its decision Tuesday to uphold a 1973 state law defining marriage as a union between a...

  • Here come the chatans

    By on June 20, 2007

    Long before December 2006, when a panel of rabbis on the Conservative Movement's committee on Jewish law and standards voted in to allow individual seminaries...

  • Tale of Two Mommies

    By on May 9, 2007

    Janet Jenkins has been fighting for visitation rights to her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, for more than three years now. Throughout her ongoing custody battle with...

  • Tackling Tomorrow's Taxes

    By on March 28, 2007

    With the deadline for individual income-tax returns little more than two weeks away, storefronts are teeming with signs and banners touting ''instant'' tax refunds, some...

  • One More Step

    By on December 6, 2006

    No one knows how long it will take Maryland's Court of Appeals to reach a decision on the fate of a 1973 state law that...

  • Looking Down the Road

    By on November 1, 2006

    It's no shocker to many gay activists that Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., who is running for reelection, ignored a questionnaire on gay related...

  • The Fine Print

    By on October 18, 2006

    Tuesday was a good day, as battles against anti-gay constitutional amendments go. That was the day the Washington Post released its latest polling on the...

  • A Fight on Many Fronts

    By on October 18, 2006

    There may be plenty of gay people who don't care much about getting married, but there is no question that marriage is an issue at...

  • Joe Solmonese

    By on March 15, 2006

    ''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...

  • Holy Matrimony

    By on January 4, 2006

    In the Name of the Law WHAT CAN YOU DO in Spain, Canada, Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands that you can't do in Texas...

  • Courting the Community

    By on November 2, 2005

    The first in an occasional series of interviews and stories on the 2006 D.C. mayoral and Council races. You may be tempted to think that...