Tag Archives: Washington DC

Represented by the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, Bishop Harry Jackson and his six cohorts have filed a court challenge of Tuesday’s decision by the DC Elections Board that a referendum could not be mounted to challenge the city’s decision to recognize marriages from other jurisdictions. “We are not going to sit by and allow an unelected board of bureaucrats to …

The Washington Blade is tweeting that that DC Board of Elections has blocked a voter referendum on marriage equality! UPDATE via HRC Backstory: Moments ago, the D.C. Board of Elections ruled that legislation recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, passed overwhelmingly last month by the D.C. Council and signed by the mayor, isn’t a proper subject for a public …

DC’s Scottish Rites Freemasons Temple was completed in 1915 and is based on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Just a few shots from today’s DC Pride Festival and some walking around we did afterwards. Full-screen versions of these shots can be found here.

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Via JMG reader Sean Chapin, there’s the first promo clip for the MOW. Visit the National Equality March site for more info.

Almost every business block of DC looks the same, everything is the same height. The tiny point down at the center of this pic is the Smithsonian, he said uncertainly. I’m here for Pride, Blowoff, and too many house parties. I am pre-exhausted.

This is the nutjob that I mentioned yesterday had spoken at the DC marriage hearing, saying “discrimination against gays was positive discrimination.” From HRC’s clip description: “Minister Leroy Swailes manages to invoke pedophilia, beastiality, the anti-Christ and extermination of the human race all in his three and a half minute testimony before the DC Board of Elections and Ethics.” Dig …

Speaking with me by phone this afternoon, activist Cleve Jones confirmed that despite earlier reports that the National Mall was previously booked and unavailable, he does have a permit from the Parks Department for a Columbus Day weekend March On Washington. “We put in a request for the West Lawn of the Capitol, where the Obama inauguration took place, and …

Washington City Paper gets it right: LL will make but one comment. OK, two. (1) You’re fitting your wife and young adult daughters in a one-bedroom condo? (2) Obtaining the address and date of registration for a District voter by no means requires any “hacking.” Any person is free to visit the offices of the Board of Elections and Ethics …

Outsiders crowded a meeting of the DC city council yesterday as the council deliberated whether putting a same-sex marriage referendum to voters violates the city’s 1996 Human Rights Act, which lists eight items than can never be put to a popular vote. One Maryland man told that council that discrimination against homosexuals was “positive discrimination” because “all gay sex acts …

More domestic terrorism as an 88 year-old white supremacist opens fire at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Security guard and gunman both wounded. President notified. Think Progress reports that the shooter is Freeper. Shocker. UPDATE: Here is the alleged shooter’s website. Over on Free Republic, where the members still apparently don’t know the shooter is one of their …

Duncan Osborne at Gay City News has discovered that the National Mall in Washington DC has already been booked by three other groups for the weekend suggested for a 2009 March On Washington. The organizers of the proposed march on Washington should have checked with the National Parks Service before they began announcing the October dates for that event. “It’s …

Lead by Bishop Harry Jackson, a coalition of black ministers based in the Washington DC area have filed a formal request for a citywide referendum to block the city from recognizing same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. In paperwork filed with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the group Stand 4 Marriage D.C. said it wants to begin the process …

Two Democrats and about 30 Republican House members have co-sponsored a Defense Of Marriage Act for Washington DC in response to the DC City Council’s recent vote to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. A Republican-led group of lawmakers wants to define marriage in the District of Columbia as between a man and a woman. The group introduced a bill …

“When the D.C. Council passed a measure last week to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, the council members acted surreptitiously and violated the sacred trust of their office. This decision, in which little attention was paid to the concerns of many D.C. constituents, marked a new low in irresponsible leadership. “In a predominantly black city that has lived through the …

As a follow-up to yesterday’s show in which DC news anchor Doug McKelway threatened on the air to punch gay activist Mike Rogers, today the talking head vowed that he will never apologize.

”I think you can certainly anticipate that [gay marriage] is in the future of the District of Columbia. How soon, we don’t know. But this is a huge step forward in being — having a law that recognizes marriages from other jurisdictions. And I do believe that nationally there’s movement on this issue. Just in the past six to 12 …

Freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), a Mormon, has vowed to have Congress intervene in DC’s decision to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. Chaffetz, who is the ranking Republican on the House subcommittee that oversees the district, says he is in discussions with House minority leaders on which of several options they will use to try to thwart the sanction …