Tag Archives: Washington DC

The Washington Post today tells the story of a disabled woman rescued from the tracks of DC’s Metro by a lesbian couple after her wheelchair malfunctioned and lurched off the platform. “Help!” the disabled woman cried, her motorized wheelchair overturned a few feet away as she lay sprawled on the Metro tracks at Union Station just before midnight one day …

Box Turtle Bulletin reports that Uganda MP David Bahati, the author of the pending “kill gays” legislation, will attend the National Prayer Breakfast in DC, where President Obama is expected to speak. Via Uganda’s Sunday Monitor: In February, David Bahati, the mover of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in the American capital of DC. …

Another attempt by Harry Jackson to have same-sex marriage rights put to DC’s voters has failed despite the support of 39 GOP members of Congress. A judge in Washington, D.C., has thrown out a lawsuit by opponents of gay marriage against the city’s elections board. Plaintiffs led by a Maryland pastor, Bishop Harry Jackson, sued after the Board of Elections …

This time with the support of 39 GOP Congress members, Stand For Marriage DC has once again filed a petition to force putting marriage equality to a vote in Washington. Same-sex marriage supporters and opponents faced off in D.C. Superior Court for a hearing Wednesday on whether the city should be required to allow a ballot initiative that would define …

An anti-gay marriage ad campaign on DC’s buses should be allowed to remain, says the ACLU and a gay rights group. It all started with a tweet on Twitter, as so many things do. Someone from a little-known gay rights group called “Full Equality Now DC” sent a Tweet demanding Metro take down ads the group considered offensive. The ads, …

Bowing to increasing pressure from the religious right, organizers of the 2010 CPAC say that while they will allow GOProud to attend and co-sponsor the event, they will not be given an opportunity to speak. Because gay rights are not open to debate. CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale told Hot Air last week that she was “satisfied” that GOProud “do …

Full Equality Now DC wants the city to force the removal of Stand For Marriage DC’s anti-gay bus ads. ”The bus is a particularly painful place for these advertisements to be located, as they cannot be avoided. Because of these advertisements, countless LGBT citizens are forced to stare down discrimination as they board the bus to go somewhere or are …

“A final piece that shapes black attitudes toward same-sex marriage is the preoccupation with racism in the black community. This obsession, although justifiable, has led to a failure to appreciate how racism is inextricably connected to all other forms of oppression. Those who fail to see this connection may resent the comparison of gay rights with civil rights. But as …

A Washington DC police detective is under heavy criticism today for drawing his gun in a crowd of blizzard revelers after his Hummer was hit by a snowball. The neighborhood snowball fight at 14th and U streets was advertised online. By 3 p.m., more than 200 residents converged for the massive snowball fight. “No one meant any harm, no one …

Moments ago, Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the city’s historic marriage equality bill. Above, Fenty hands openly gay City Councilman David Catania the pen used to sign the bill Catania sponsored. In a raucous signing ceremony at a northwest Washington church, Mayor Fenty officially legalized same-sex marriage in the District, distributing ceremonial pens among the Council members standing behind …

From NOM’s site: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) released the following statement today in response to the D.C. Council’s passage of a same-sex marriage bill: “The people of D.C. have a right, guaranteed by the charter, which is D.C.’s constitution, to vote to protect marriage. Politicians on the city council are acting as if they have the right through …

UPDATE: DC marriage approved by 11-2! The bill now goes to Mayor Fenty for his promised immediate signature. Congratulations to all and BIG thanks to out gay Councilman David Catania. The Washington DC City Council will make its final vote legalizing same-sex marriage at any minute. Watch live here. Photo via Chris Geidner @ Twitter.

The wingnut/Moonie mouthpiece Washington Times is closing up shop as a “traditional” newspaper to reinvent itself as an opinion publication. Via Eric Boehlert at HuffPo: You’d think that somebody with a direct line to the Almighty, and tapped by Jesus to save mankind on Earth, would be able to come up with a better business plan for running a daily …

Log Cabin Republicans splinter group GOProud has announced that they will be a cosponsor of the 2010 CPAC. The Conservative Political Action Conference is the annual wingnut confab in Washington DC perhaps best known for its 2007 event, during which Ann Coulter declared that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was a “faggot.” Via GOProud press release: Today, GOProud, the only …

Via the Economist: In 2008 Maine had the second highest concentration of gay households, with over eight in every 1,000 households said to be headed by partners of the same sex, according to research based on census data by the Williams Institute, a gay rights think-tank at UCLA. Those states where gay marriage is legal or where same-sex partnerships are …

Sigh. Yet another LGBT bookstore bites the dust. Lambda Rising, a bookstore serving the LGBT community in the nation’s capital for 35 years, is closing its D.C. store in Dupont Circle and its remaining out-of-town store in Rehoboth Beach, Del., in January. The closings, announced Friday, mark the end of the city’s only exclusively LGBT bookstore and becomes another in …

Washington DC has seen 36 hate crimes so far in 2009, about the same as in each of the last two years. All but one of those hate crimes has been about sexual orientation. But check out this bit of damning news: Numbers can be debated. But one number can not: the rise in sexual orientation hate crimes in Wards …

Stinging over his defeat in the DC marriage battle, “Bishop” Harry Jackson vows that there will be a “bloodletting” when city council members come up for re-election. In future races, religious people are going to start going after people’s political careers. In D.C., some very vulnerable black councilmen went along with the city council, and some of these guys will …

Via NOM’s blog: DC Councilman Tommy Wells — who not that long ago actually supported school vouchers — has just written an open letter to Senate subcommittee Chairman Dick Durbin strongly opposing the reauthorization of the DC school voucher program this year. Why? Because some of the kids in the program use the vouchers to attend Catholic schools, and the …

“This battle is not over. DC politicians are blocking the right of people to vote on marriage. Voters in 31 other states have already exercised their right to vote on this issue. It is ironic that some politicians actively campaign demanding DC voting rights and yet they are conspiring to deny those same citizens the right to vote on the …