At least that's what I think she's doing. I hear birds chirping in the background, and once during our conversation she exclaims out of nowhere, "Man, that was a big hill." She sounds slightly -- just slightly -- winded throughout our hour-long chat.
Nothing like getting a little physical exercise while conversing with a reporter. ...more
"The city is hot right now -- hot in lots of ways," Fenty teased the crowd, numbering about a thousand at its fluctuating peak Monday night, Aug. 10, as locals filled Stead Park at 17th and P Streets NW. They were all there to show the three members of the Federation of Gay Games' Site Selection Committee that D.C. has the hometown spirit to host the 2014 Gay Games, and that it would take more than a heat advisory to quash it.
Aside from the mayor, others were on hand to cheer on that spirit, including D.C.'s Different Drummers, the Batala Percussion Band, and the Washington Nationals mascots, the Racing Presidents. Brent Minor, the unofficial prince of pep and president of Team DC, the umbrella organization for the area's GLBT sports organizations, surely shouted himself hoarse from the small stage at the corner of the field. ...more
The 18-year-old was “scared and apprehensive” to accept the $1,500 scholarship from Team DC because he's still in the process of coming out to friends and family. "But if this does anyone good, or motivates anyone," he says of his acceptance of the award presented to him during a public reception at the HRC Equality Forum on Friday, Aug. 7, "then that outweighs any negatives that it might have.”
Clayton Miller
(Photo by Todd Franson ) To be sure, Miller's story is one bound to motivate other GLBT athletes. ...more
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)A southern Utah newspaper has rejected a California gay couple's wedding announcement, saying its policy is only to publish announcements for marriages legal under Utah law.
Tyler Barrick and Spencer Young say The Spectrum in St. George initially accepted their paid wedding announcement last week, but then changed course. The couple was legally married June 17, 2008, in San Francisco. They wanted the announcement printed in Young's hometown paper ahead of a family party next week.
In an e-mail exchange with publisher Donnie Welch, Young says the marriage is as valid as other marriages an ...
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington BladeThe late gay rights leader Harvey Milk and lesbian tennis star Billie Jean King were honored Wednesday at the White House as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Milk and King were among 16 activists, athletes, scientist s and entertainers to receive the medal, the nation's highest civilian honor, during a White House East Room ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
Stuart Milk, Harvey Milk's openly gay nephew, accepted the medal on the family's behalf.
The president, in speaking about each of the recipients during his opening remarks, praised Harvey Milk for delivering a “message of hope” as ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)A dissatisfied judge has ordered all involved parties to resubmit court documents in the federal lawsuit challenging California's gay marriage ban.
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker said in an order issued today that everyone involved with the lawsuit failed Friday to make detailed court filings outlining the major issues of the case.
He ordered the government officials and the lawyers opposing and supporting gay marriage to submit new papers by Aug. 17. He says the papers must discuss how gay and heterosexual couples are effected by California's ban and how the ...
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