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D.C. sees decline in AIDS cases, deaths: report
The number of diagnoses of full-blown AIDS cases in the District of Columbia declined by 33 percent from 2004 to 2008, and the number of city residents dying from AIDS dropped by 30 percent during the same period, according to the city’s 2009 report on HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
But the report also [...]
With thanks for D.C. marriage equality
It seems like yesterday, when in May 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that existing marriage laws discriminated against gays and lesbians, a ruling our D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics has repeatedly rendered lately. Coincidentally, it was about this same time that I started to test my sea legs in the arena of LGBT [...]
‘Today was like a dream’
Couples, D.C. officials celebrate arrival of same-sex marriage
Jubilant gay, lesbian couples begin to wed in D.C.
More than 100 seek marriage license in first hours
Here come the grooms
With the city’s historic same-sex marriage law expected to take effect in less than three weeks, the application form for a marriage license at the D.C. Superior Court still leaves space only for the names of bride and groom.
But a spokesperson for D.C. Council member David Catania (I-At Large), author of the [...]
Church groups are biggest donors to D.C. marriage ban effort
Two religious groups linked to Bishop Harry Jackson’s church in Beltsville, Md., have provided more than $102,000 in contributions to his campaign to ban same-sex marriage in D.C.
Contributions from the High Impact Leadership Coalition and Christian Hope Ministries-High Impact comprise slightly more than half of the $199,530 raised as of Jan. 31 [...]
D.C. should elect its attorney general
The District needs an independent attorney general responsible to the people and not answerable to the mayor. I have been privy to previous administrations’ discussions when they tried to recruit and vet a person for the position that used to be called the Corporation Counsel. We have since changed the name of that position to [...]
D.C. judge rejects ballot measure on gay marriage
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia lost their second court challenge in less than a year Thursday when a Superior Court judge ruled that a voter initiative seeking to ban such marriages cannot be placed on the ballot.
Judge Judith Macaluso ruled that the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics acted properly in [...]
New HIV/AIDS initiative targets black gay men in D.C.
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty joined health officials Tuesday to announce a new D.C. and National Institutes of Health research and treatment initiative aimed at decreasing the city’s high rate of HIV infections.
The $26.4 million federally funded initiative, called the D.C. Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress, includes among four components a study that targets black men who [...]
D.C. Jail guards accused of beating gay inmate
A 39-year-old gay man being held in the D.C. Jail has accused jail guards of severely beating him last month, saying they carried him, handcuffed, down three flights of stairs while deliberately knocking his head against the walls and handrails.
The gay inmate, John Burrows, a D.C. resident, gave a detailed account of the incident to [...]
A precarious walk down the aisle
Developments in the battle for same-sex marriage rights took place in numerous places throughout the country last year.
• The State Supreme Court in Iowa in April unanimously overturned a statutory ban on same-sex marriage, granting marriage rights to same-sex couples there. It was the first unanimous decision from a court in support of same-sex marriage, [...]
D.C. marriage equality rally set for Dec. 14
A rally in support of the D.C. same-sex marriage bill is scheduled to take place Dec. 14 at a city recreation center — the night before the City Council holds its second and final vote on the Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009.
The rally, set to begin at 7 p.m. at [...]
Fenty pledges to meet with AIDS activists after sit-in arrests
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has agreed to meet with representatives of an AIDS group coalition that staged a sit-in outside his office Dec. 1 as part of a World AIDS Day protest.
Two people with the group D.C. Fights Back were arrested during the sit-in after they refused to obey a police order to stop blocking [...]
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