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Many LGBTQ residents escaping D.C. for inauguration weekend
2 days ago · Dr. Rachel Levine, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health and the federal government’s highest-ranking transgender official, called on community leaders to join her in a campaign to promote ...
Thank you, Mr. President - Washington Blade
1 day ago · One of the most memorable moments in Biden’s long record of LGBTQ support came in 2012 when he famously endorsed marriage equality in a live TV interview days before President Obama did the same.
Trump’s win and its impact on LGBTQ Americans is 2024’s top story
Dec 31, 2024 · The year 2024 didn’t end the way many LGBTQ rights supporters expected, with the re-election of Donald Trump and the anti-LGBTQ promises of the Project 2025 blueprint for his new administration.
D.C.’s sexual harassment laws will better protect LGBTQ people
Jan 10, 2025 · In recent weeks, the D.C. Council passed the Fairness in Human Rights Administration Amendment Act. Provided that this bill is signed by Mayor Bowser and not objected to by Congress, it will ...
D.C. LGBTQ activists call for resilience, advocacy after election
Dec 13, 2024 · About 100 people turned out on Dec. 12 at D.C.’s Eaton Hotel to listen and ask questions to a panel of six LGBTQ rights advocates who discussed the impact on the LGBTQ community of the election ...
Urgent concerns arise when congressional staff face ethics …
May 23, 2024 · The second complaint came from an official with the Biden-Harris administration over an especially combative and anti-trans email that was sent by the highest-ranking deputy in a West Virginia ...
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The Washington Blade was founded in 1969 as a black and white, one-sheet community newsletter distributed in D.C.-area bars. In October 2009, the Blade celebrated its 40th anniversary as an award ...
House members raise objections to anti-LGBTQ guest chaplain
Feb 18, 2024 · A group of 26 House Democrats sent a letter on Thursday to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rev. Dr. Margaret Grun Kibben, the House chaplain, raising objections to Johnson’s sponsorship of anti ...