Gauge: In the May 28, 2009, issue of Metro Weekly, Jake Nodar, interviewed for the feature "Out in the Wild," stated that he believed himself to be the first openly gay man featured on a Discovery Channel program (Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment). That distinction, however, belongs to longtime gay activist Rodger McFarlane, who died May 15, and appeared on the 1998 season of Eco-Challenge Morocco on the Discovery Channel.
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Gauge: From Boise to Barcelona, Shanghai to Omaha, June is a full month of GLBT pride celebrations far beyond Washington's own impressive offering. Among them, one is so tantalizingly close that if Capital Pride doesn't satisfy your cravings, this June 20 to 21 fete is standing by: Baltimore Pride.
"If folks -- especially from D.C. -- haven't been to Baltimore Pride, they should come and check it out," says Rahne Alexander. "It's a little smaller, but it's a ton of fun."
A Santa Cruz, Calif., transplant who experienced her first Baltimore Pride in 2002, Alexander is now part of the festivities with her band, The Degenerettes, for which she sings and plays guitar, along with her partner and drummer, Kristen Anchor and bass-player Chrissy Howland. This year, The Degnerettes will play for Baltimore Pride's Saturday-night "block party," just ahead of headliner Amber. ...more
"If folks -- especially from D.C. -- haven't been to Baltimore Pride, they should come and check it out," says Rahne Alexander. "It's a little smaller, but it's a ton of fun."
A Santa Cruz, Calif., transplant who experienced her first Baltimore Pride in 2002, Alexander is now part of the festivities with her band, The Degenerettes, for which she sings and plays guitar, along with her partner and drummer, Kristen Anchor and bass-player Chrissy Howland. This year, The Degnerettes will play for Baltimore Pride's Saturday-night "block party," just ahead of headliner Amber. ...more
Gauge: Though the air-conditioning kept the sweltering D.C. evening at bay, participants at the Capital Pride Town Hall: D.C.'s HIV/AIDS Crisis could not avoid creating their own heat.
It came from moderator Michael Crawford asking panelists how to "light a fire under" Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration. It came from moderator Toni Young saying that participants needed to somehow "instill a fire" into the GLBT community to re-focus on HIV/AIDS. The two hours of insight, friction and examination were characterized by Vincent Micone accordingly: "What you're seeing on this panel is the spark we were hoping to see."
About 60 people gathered in a meeting room of the Academy for Educational Development, off the intersection of Florida Avenue and T Street NW, Monday evening, June 8, for this discussion presented by DC Black Pride, Capital Pride, and the Washington Blade. Micone, as chair the Capital Pride Educational and Cultural Events Committee, kept everything moving as four panelists fielded questions from three moderators and the audience. ...more
It came from moderator Michael Crawford asking panelists how to "light a fire under" Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration. It came from moderator Toni Young saying that participants needed to somehow "instill a fire" into the GLBT community to re-focus on HIV/AIDS. The two hours of insight, friction and examination were characterized by Vincent Micone accordingly: "What you're seeing on this panel is the spark we were hoping to see."
About 60 people gathered in a meeting room of the Academy for Educational Development, off the intersection of Florida Avenue and T Street NW, Monday evening, June 8, for this discussion presented by DC Black Pride, Capital Pride, and the Washington Blade. Micone, as chair the Capital Pride Educational and Cultural Events Committee, kept everything moving as four panelists fielded questions from three moderators and the audience. ...more
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington BladeD.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles issued a legal opinion Thursday saying a voter referendum seeking to overturn a city law recognizing same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions would violate the city's human rights law and should not be allowed.
Nickles submitted his four-page opinion to the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics, which is deliberating whether to approve or deny a request by the pastor of a Maryland church and six other District residents that the board allow voters to decide on the same-sex marriage law in a referendum.
"As expressed in the [Human Rights Act], the established public policy of the District of Colu ...
BY Chris Johnson, Washington BladeThe U.S. attorney general this week acknowledged the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and their importance in starting the modern LGBT rights movement.
Attorney General Eric Holder made the remarks in a speech to LGBT employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday. The employees convened at the Great Hall for t heir Pride celebration.
DOJ Pride, the gay affinity group for Justice Department employees, coordinated the celebration, which was dubbed, “What's Past is Prologue: Honoring Our Past, Forging Our Future.”
The employees greeted Holder with a standing ovation before he gave his spe ...
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington BladeMore than 100 people packed a D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics hearing room Wednesday as supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage presented opposing arguments regarding the validity of a proposed referendum to overturn the city's same-sex marriage recognition law.
At issue, according to election board chair Errol Arthur, is whether the proposed referendum would cover one or more of eight restricted subject areas that are barred from going before the voters, including a proposal to raise or lower taxes or a proposal that would "unlawfully discriminate" under the D.C. Human Rights Act.
Although most of t ...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today picked Ronald E. Albers for a judgeship on the San Francisco County Superior Court.
Theresa Sparks, the transgender woman who has served two terms as president of the city’s police commission, has ruled out running for a third term. When she first won the coveted seat by one vote back in 2007, Sparks became the first transgender person to head a city oversight panel. But her ascension led to [...]
The California Supreme Court will issue its decision on the validity of Proposition 8 Tuesday, May 26 at 10 a.m. The court posted a notice on its Web site Friday stating that the decision in the same-sex marriage cases would be issued Tuesday. The long-awaited decision has gay rights advocates anxiously anticipating the ruling, and to determine [...]
Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning sh ow on KRXQ radio in Sacramento issued an apology on their Thursday show, after using language that promoted violence against transgender children. 
"Since God created marriage, only he has the authority to change it," the Reverend Duane Motley told marriage-equality opponents at a rally on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y. Motley, state senator Ruben Diaz Sr., and Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage joined supporters in a rally to protect "traditional marriage" outside the capitol building as the New York state senate considers a marriage-equality bill. 
Neighbors found a recently married lesbian couple dead in their Baltimore apartment on Wednesday, and a number of clues may indicate foul play. 
The owners of OutLoud Bookstore and Revive Coffeehouse have announced that the cafe will close its doors this Sunday, June 14. 'We gave it a good run, but the economy was just against us,' said owners Ted Jensen and Kevin Medley in an email. The men...
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Chastity Bono has come out as transgender, announcing her sex change for the first time
Frontrunners vying for the Democratic Senate ticket in Ohio both back gay marriage
he biggest names in the anti-gay marriage movement fail to muster a significant crowd at a rally in New York
Todd Alan Blodgett Claims to fame: Son of Iowa state Republican assembly member Gary Blodgett; protégé of GOP dirty-trickster Lee Atwater; Bush/Quayle election committee domestic policy adviser; Council of Conservative Citizens lackey; neo-Nazi / neofascist white supremacist; alleged john… Conservative Babylon, as our regular readers know, is our continually updated database/blog of right-wingers gone really, really bad. It’s [...]
Well, well, well… So, it’s a horrible invasion of privacy to publicize the names of people who donate to anti-gay ballot measures and sign anti-gay petitions — but it’s a righteous mission of truth and justice to publicize the membership of an LGBT employee organization, which was never publicly accessible in the first place? Hypocrisy, thy [...]
“There is a certain luxury associated with not having to wait that makes it appear as the palatable solution for those who desire change.” A fine piece from Byron Williams, “Delaying Justice is Hardly the Best Path to Progress,” which deserves the full read: Last week, I appeared on CNN’s “No Bias, No Bull” to discuss the [...]
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