WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to media inquiries and an apparent information blackout by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Nicholas F. Benton, owner of the Falls Church News-Press, a Washington, D.C.-area weekly, confirmed today that his corporation, Benton Communications, Inc., had won a bid from parties that included the SBA in September to obtain the assets of the Washington Blade from its bankrupt parent company for purposes of a seamless perpetuation of the nation's oldest gay community newspaper. The Blade was closed without Benton's advanced knowledge on Monday.
This report comes from Leslie Stone and CM Hall, who have been working tirelessly to generate support and apply pressure on Rep. Greg Walden to co-sponsor and vote for ENDA. On November 16, Leslie coordinated an ENDA specific in-district meeting with Rep. Walden’s staff in Medford, Oregon. Here’s her report back from that meeting: This was [...]
Tonight, HRC will participate in Marriage Equality New York’s (MENY) rally in Union Square to protest the vote on marriage equality in the New York State Senate yesterday. In a painful vote of 38-24 the New York State Senate decided against marriage equality, but tonight join MENY, HRC, elected officials, and other partner groups to lend your [...]
Today HRC launched an action alert targeted to our members and supporters whose Representative sits on the House Education & Labor Committee. We need them to turn up the heat and tell their Members of Congress to make an inclusive ENDA a top priority this month. If there’s one thing the hate crimes victory showed us, it’s [...]
PFLAG, Morris County (Parents, Family and Friends of Gays and Lesbians), is a confidential, mutual support group to help parents, grandparents and friends adjust to a child’s gay or lesbian orientation.
25th International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference comes to San Francisco for the weekend.
December 3, 2009: Former FAMILY TIES actress MEREDITH BAXTER has 'come out' as gay after living as a lesbian for the past seven years.
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