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Va. guv addresses anti-gay bias in directive
Virginian Gov. Bob McDonnell has issued an executive directive saying that discrimination based on sexual orientation in state employment will not be tolerated.
The directive, which is different from an executive order in that it cannot be similarly enforced, comes after state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli advised Virginia colleges and universities to strike any policies that [...]
Virginia colleges mum on Cuccinelli letter
Public colleges and universities in Virginia were considering their options this week after state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli declared their policies barring discrimination against gays illegal.
Many student and LGBT groups mobilized against Cuccinelli’s letter March 4 to 40 school presidents, which says the institutions cannot treat sexual orientation, gender identity and gender [...]
D.C. schools get incomplete score on LGBT youth survey
Low response rate means data not fully representative
‘Today was like a dream’
Couples, D.C. officials celebrate arrival of same-sex marriage
Wone hearing to discuss S&M devices
A prosecutors’ request to introduce evidence that police found a collection of S&M devices in the home of three gay men implicated in the 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone is expected to be debated Friday during a D.C. Superior Court hearing.
The hearing follows a prosecutors’ February court filing seeking permission to submit evidence [...]
Va. colleges told to strike LGBT anti-discrimination policies
By HARLEY DENNETT
Public colleges and universities in Virginia may be forced to remove LGBT anti-discrimination protections after the state’s attorney general ruled such policies invalid.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wrote Thursday to all presidents and rectors of state institutions, saying they had insufficient authority to treat sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as a protected [...]
Obstacles in the aisle
Local couple overcomes adversity, enters Crate & Barrel wedding contest
Marriage law prompts gay Md. couple to move to D.C.
Gansler opinion not enough to keep Silver Spring pair from selling house
Jubilant gay, lesbian couples begin to wed in D.C.
More than 100 seek marriage license in first hours
D.C. chief judge’s advice for couples planning to wed
Clerks can’t refuse to perform civil weddings on religious grounds
Church’s rental of E Street Cinema prompts boycott talk
Bishop Jackson led fight against D.C. marriage law
Supreme Court rejects request to block D.C. gay marriage law
Roberts says ‘a stay is not warranted’
Second arrest made in gay murder case
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.
D.C. police have made a second arrest in the Jan. 10 shooting death of gay Maryland resident Gordon Rivers.
Police identified the second suspect as 22-year-old Anthony Hager of Temple Hills, Md., and said he was arrested Feb. 25. It follows the Jan. 28 arrest of 17-year-old William Wren, who was charged as [...]
Last hurdle removed to start of D.C. same-sex marriages
The D.C. Court of Appeals Friday denied a request by a Maryland minister for an injunction to block the city’s same-sex marriage law from taking effect March 3, ending the last potential obstacle to the start of gay nuptials the following week.
In a unanimous decision, Associate Judges Noel Kramer and Phyllis Thompson and Senior Judge [...]
Judge finds probable cause in D.C. murder case
A D.C. Superior Court judge has ruled probable cause exists that William Wren allegedly shot and killed gay Maryland resident Gordon Rivers last month inside Rivers’ car while it was parked in Southeast Washington.
But neither Wren’s lawyer nor the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case disclosed during a preliminary hearing Feb. 18 [...]
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