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10 years later, firestorm over gay-only ENDA vote still informs movement
Protesters demonstrate against the Human Rights Campaign in 2007 over support for a gay-only ENDA.(Washington Blade file photo by Henry Linser) Ten years ago, a firestorm ignited in the LGBT community...
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Victory Fund crucial to electing LGBTQ candidates
LGBTQ Victory Fund CEO and President Annise Parker speaks at the National Champagne Brunch last Sunday. (Washington Blade photo by Wyatt Reid Westlund) The LGBTQ Victory Fund is “the only national...
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Stonewall fundraiser attracts prominent Democrats to Rehoboth
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester is slated to speak at an event June 16 in Rehoboth. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers) Delaware Stonewall PAC will hold its annual Summer Fundraiser on June 16 in...
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Newseum announces plans for gay rights exhibit
Former Rep. Barney Frank’s coming out in 1987 is among topics to be addressed in the Newseum’s upcoming gay rights exhibit. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) The Newseum, the D.C.-based museum...
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George H.W. Bush ‘unsupportive’ on gay rights, HIV/AIDS
President George H.W. Bush speaks at the National Press Club on Jan. 5, 1988. (Washington Blade archive photo by Doug Hinckle) Following the death of former President George H.W. Bush at age 94, the...
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Newseum unveils ‘Rise Up’ Stonewall-themed exhibit
(Photo courtesy of the Newseum) ‘Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement’Newseum555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.Opens Friday, March 8Through Dec. 31Family Pride Weekend (March 9-10)Free admission...
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‘Why do we need the LGBT media?’
(Washington Blade cover photos by Michael Key) As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, panel discussions are breaking out all over the country about the LGBT...
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Night OUT at the Nationals to celebrate 15 years
A scene from last year’s Night OUT. (Washington Blade photo by Kevin Majoros) Each year since the Washington Nationals came to D.C. in 2005, Team DC, in conjunction with the Nats, has hosted Night OUT...
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Looking back: 50 years of the Blade
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in 1985. (Washington Blade archive photo by Doug Hinckle) Then-Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank in an interview that appeared on the front page of the Boston Globe on...
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PHOTOS: Night OUT at the Nationals
2019 Night Out at the Nationals (Washington Blade photo by Kevin Majoros) The Washington Nationals and Team DC celebrated the 15th Anniversary of the Night OUT at the Nationals on June 4th as the Nats...
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Letting it all hang out at Pride — did it help us in the long run?
The images LGBT people project at Pride gatherings vs. marriage cases has historically been vastly different. (Washington Blade file photos by Michael Key) Capital Pride and all Pride events have...
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Who cares about gay Republicans?
There’s entirely too much fuss about gay Republicans. They’re just Republicans after all. Being gay makes them no different from the rest of their kind. It never has; it never will. However much we...
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So much drama, so few column inches
(Washington Blade archive photo by Doug Hinckle) I go back forty years with the Blade to an evening when I was riding around with a friend who stopped by a house north of Dupont Circle and took two...
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Thank you for trusting us with your stories
Washington Blade Editor Kevin Naff (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) (The following is adapted from Naff’s speech to the Blade 50th gala on Friday, Oct. 18.) It is impossible to sum up 50 years...
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Composing ourselves for the battles ahead
Pope Francis lifted the pontifical secrecy rule regarding clerical rape of children, but is still ignorant on gender identity. (Photo by Zebra48bo via Wikimedia Commons) I have tried several ways of...
View ArticleCalendar: May 13-19
Friday, May 13 Friday Tea Time and social hour for Older LGBTQ+ adults will be at 2 p.m. on Zoom. Feel free to bring your beverage of choice. For the Zoom link or more information, contact Justin...
View ArticleRep. Pocan to chair Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus
The Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus announced Monday that gay Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) will serve as the new chair for the 118th Congress, replacing outgoing chair Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.),...
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D.C. debates how to cope with crime as reform bill heads to Senate
Just over three weeks after the D.C. Council overturned Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto of a controversial criminal code reform bill that the Council had passed unanimously last November, the...
View ArticleHRC issues state of emergency but forgets to ask us to vote
HRC President Kelley Robinson declared HRC’s first-ever national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans. The Human Rights Campaign issued a “National Warning and Guidebook” to Ensure Safety for LGBTQ+...
View ArticleIs being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?
My answer to the question: “Is being LGBTQ enough to earn your vote?” is no. It’s the same answer I would give on whether just being Generation X, a millennial, a woman, or other minority, is enough to...
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