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  • Talking LGBT Tech

    By on August 28, 2013

    The LGBT Technology Partnership, a national nonpartisan group of LGBT advocacy groups, academic institutions and technology companies that seeks to address technology issues of specific...

  • Voices for Visibility

    By on June 25, 2012

    Among the many expressions and celebrations of pride during LGBT Pride Month, a June 22 forum on Capitol Hill may have been among the more...

  • The Path Down the Aisle

    By on December 23, 2010

    Two weeks before the start of 2010, Mayor Adrian Fenty joined a crowd of about 200 at All Souls Unitarian Church where he signed the...

  • Awarding the Organizers

    By on December 1, 2010

    Where there's a rally, a protest, or signature drive for marriage equality, there's an organizer. Two years ago, the D.C.-based New Organizing Institute (NOI) noticed...

  • A Tale of Two Rallies [video]

    By on August 16, 2010

    On Sunday, Aug. 15, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) brought its ''Summer of Marriage'' bus tour to an end on the east lawn of...

  • Same Sex Sunday — With Now-Out CA GOP Sen. Roy Ashburn

    By on August 2, 2010

    Each Sunday, Joe Mirabella and Phil Reese of The Bilerico Project co-host the Same Sex Sunday podcast, for which I am one of the regulars...

  • D.C. Marriage: A Political Achievement

    By on March 9, 2010

    The Campaign for All D.C. Families hosted three of the first legally recognized same-sex marriages in the District on Tuesday, March 9, but the reason...

  • GLAA Announces Awardees

    By on March 4, 2010

    ''The achievement of civil marriage equality in the District of Columbia is the fruit of decades of public advocacy and organizing by gay citizens and...

  • Crawford's Calling

    By on February 2, 2010

    Michael Crawford, co-founder of DC for Marriage and chair of the organization during its fight for marriage equality in the District, is taking his work...

  • DC responds to Maine voters repeal of gay marriage

    By on November 5, 2009

    Washington, DC’s gay marriage supporters protest the rollback of same-sex marriages in Maine on November 3. This hastily organized protest features speaker Michael Crawford of...

  • Marriage Meetings

    By on October 21, 2009

    Monday, Oct. 26, is bound to be a red-letter day for plenty of locals interested in making marriage equality a reality in the District. The...

  • 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,...

  • October's Advance

    By on July 29, 2009

    There’s a ticking time bomb on the Equality Across America Web site. At least, that's how some local activists, like Michael Crawford, might view the...

  • Addressing an Epidemic

    By on June 10, 2009

    Though the air-conditioning kept the sweltering D.C. evening at bay, participants at the Capital Pride Town Hall: D.C.'s HIV/AIDS Crisis could not avoid creating their...

  • Mayor Signs for Marriage

    By on May 6, 2009

    Mayor Adrian Fenty signed legislation on Wednesday, May 6, requiring D.C. to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. Mafara Hobson, Fenty's director of communications,...