It's usually from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. when the 51-year-old spends her time at the D.C. Department of Corrections. She's there by choice, serving not time but her clients --talking to gay and transgender inmates about their plans upon being released.
It's a discharge-planning volunteer effort Budd started more than six years ago and it's become one of her many duties as a treatment and healing specialist for Transgender Health Empowerment (THE), an organization that she helped found in 1996. ...more
The DC Capital Punishment Volleyball Club is hosting the games, sanctioned by the North American Gay Volleyball Association, Nov. 28-29, at the University of Maryland's Reckord Armory Gymnasium (2103 Reckord Armory, College Park, Md.).
''This is a great opportunity for us to bring folks from New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and as far away as San Francisco for a great networking opportunity,'' says tournament director Jack Fleming. ...more
''This is an exciting time for the club as we move closer toward realizing marriage equality here in the District,'' Richardson said.
Sheila Alexander-Reid was reelected as vice president of administration and Tim Mahoney was reelected as vice president of political affairs. ...more
The gay Catholic group Dignity USA is urging the D.C. City Council to reject a demand by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington that it amend a pending same-sex marriage bill to allow its charitable arm to discriminate against gay employees.
Dignity weighed in on the brewing controversy over the city's pending same-sex marriage bill after Catholic Charities, which is run by the Archdiocese, said it would discontinue operating dozens of city-funded programs that serve as many as 68,000 low-income people if the Council doesn't make certain changes in the bill.
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A House committee has scheduled Wednesday for its markup of a bill that would make benefits available to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee markup of the legislation, known as the Domestic Partnership Benefits & Obligations Act, will take place Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in room 2154 of the House Rayburn Building.
The committee will consider amendments to the legislation before voting on whether to report out the bill to the House floor.
The markup will take place the same day that the House Education & Labor Committee is considering the Employment Non-Di ...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to stop providing some social services unless lawmakers change a proposal to legalize same-sex marriages.
The city council has refused to change the measure, which is expected to pass next month.
The church says the marriage bill would force the church to offer employee benefits and adoptions to married same-sex couples. But council members say threats shouldn't determine D.C. laws.
Council member Jim Graham says the church hasn't abandoned social services in New Hampshire, Connecticut or Vermont after they began same-sex marriages.
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