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  • Celebrating Marriage Equality [video]

    By on March 3, 2010

    Counting down the minutes until D.C. marriage equality legislation became law, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) threw a celebratory party in the Rayburn House...

  • Final Vote Victory

    By on December 15, 2009

    The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 passed its second reading during a City Council legislative meeting Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 15,...

  • Lacking Liaison

    By on November 26, 2009

    Little more than two years ago, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier sat with members of the local LGBT community and promised that the...

  • Lacking Liaison

    By on November 24, 2009

    Little more than two years ago, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier sat with members of the local LGBT community and promised that the...

  • Solemn Celebration

    By on October 21, 2009

    ''Emotionally difficult'' are the words Jeffrey Richardson uses to describe the 33rd Anniversary Leadership Awards for the Gertrude Stein Democrat Club, of which he is...

  • Catania Debuts Marriage-Equality Bill

    By on October 5, 2009

    As promised, Councilmember David Catania (I-At large) today introduced the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009, seeking to bring marriage equality...

  • Prosecution Gives Charge Rationale

    By on September 24, 2009

    The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) has released a 14-page sentencing memorandum, outlining the government's reasoning in charging Robert Lee...

  • Plea-Bargain Backlash

    By on September 22, 2009

    Chris Farris is just one of many people counting down the days until Wednesday, Oct. 14. That's the day that Farris, co-chair of Gays and...

  • 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...

  • Attitude Adjustment

    By on August 12, 2009

    As an activist I have had occasion to criticize the police; but I also count many police officers as friends. So after gay attorney Pepin...

  • Referendum Wrap-Up

    By on June 17, 2009

    Over the past several weeks, Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., has been speaking, rallying and even officiating a...

  • Referendum Rumble

    By on June 10, 2009

    The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics this morning, Wednesday, June 10, heard arguments from both sides in a contentious fight regarding recent legislation to...

  • Rallying Against Equality

    By on April 29, 2009

    ''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...

  • Rallying Against Equality

    By on April 28, 2009

    ''There are a lot of issues that we agree on, there are some that we don't agree on, but...we have to say no to same-sex...

  • Countering Marriage Equality

    By on April 24, 2009

    A newly formed coalition uniting Hope Christian Church and the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), based in Beltsville and College Park, respectively; the national, D.C.-group,...