The District of Columbia's award-winning Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit is being slowly dismantled, a cost-cutting move that say puts a vulnerable population at risk at a time when hate crimes are on the rise.
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Ballroom, House and Vogue:
Vogue femme, butch queen, O-P-U-L-E-N-C-E. The Black LGBT Archivists Society of Philadelphia is hosting an exhibition celebrating 20 years of ball culture at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia.
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Equality won't come overnight We can't compare struggles, but we have learned from the black civil rights movement By Robert Turner Friday, July 10, 2009 ONE MONTH AGO, we were in the midst of celebrating Capital Pride and marking the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, which is universally acknowledged as the birth of the modern gay rights movement.
Find your bitch! Aww, look at you gay federal employees. You're almost equal to your heterosexual counterparts.
Bitch session Capital Pride was a blast this year! Let's do it again next month. By Friday, June 19, 2009
Re: “Gay marriage? Give it up and concentrate on securing our civil rights in every city, state and county.
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Wrong ANSWER Why did a Stalinist organization march in the Capital Pride Parade? By James Kirchick Friday, June 19, 2009 IMAGINE MY SURPRISE UPON WITNESSING at the Capital Pride parade — somewhere between the flatbed truck carrying a bevy of line dancing, Speedo-clad cowboys and the flotilla of vamping drag queens — a contingent from the International ANSWER Coalition.
So what really is the best part of working behind the scenes at one of the largest LGBT Pride events in the country? The longtime activist in me says it's the clean bathrooms with no lines and a truck full of cold water, but the queer kid who has still not grown up (at least not yet) takes away a memory of watching, hearing and feeling thousands of us make the air vibrate and the ground shake while Martha Wash sings "It's Raining Men.
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Most folks here in the coffee house know I work for NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
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Pride & Gay Marriage Takes Center StageMyFox Washington DC, DCBy Roby Chavez/ myfoxdc WASHINGTON - A decision this week could eventually put the gay marriage debate in front of voters.
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It's June - which means LGBTQ Pride parades, festivals and street fairs are happening in cities and in nearly every state across this nation that we call the United States of America.
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ALBANY -- A local woman whose vandalized Volkswagen launched her on a career as a gay activist welcomed nationwide as a speaker, often in conjunction with a documentary film she made about her experiences, will not be in the Capital Region for this weekend's gay pride festival because of a dispute with event organizers.
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Frank Kameny, 84, to be honored at DC PrideMetro WeeklyFrank Kameny, 84, recalling the reasons he became one of America's first organizers of gay and lesbian rights.
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Last night we kicked off Capital Pride week here in Washington, DC. The opening event is one that I love for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is held inside (gotta love the humidity here).
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Robert Burden, 22, has lived in Washington, D.C. just shy of a year. But like an ambitious politician in the nation’s capital, youth and inexperience hasn’t stopped him from grabbing a key post, in this case as chairman of volunteers and member recruitment for Capital Pride, held June 5-14, 2009–with the Pride Parade June 13.
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