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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Caribbean Net News GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- A former Seattleite who was taken to a police station last week for kissing his boyfriend at a local bar has been issued an official apology by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism. “I apologise for your upsetting experience and want to assure you that the Cayman Islands is a welcoming jurisdiction to all people,” Pilar Bush, the Caribbean island's director of tourism, wrote to Chandler. “What happened to you was an isolated incident, and is not representative of Cayman. We know that thousands of gay and lesbian visitors travel to...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Windy City Times , Washington Blade , New York Times , Slate , Gay City News , Time , USA Today Gay and lesbian Catholics were among those who flocked to events in Washington, DC during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States. They predicted in a sternly worded statement released as the pontiff's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base that there would be few smiles upon their faces. They came, they said in the statement, to protest the career of a man noted for his antigay positions in his service to the Church. “We are holding up the Pope's words and actions to...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: Washington City Paper John Solomon took over the Washington Times on Jan. 28. But he arrived today, via a message from the paper’s copy operation. The news, in short: No more scare quotes. Longtime Washington Times readers know well what this is all about: Under the regime of Wesley Pruden , the Times , unwilling to acknowledge anything so radical and immoral as gay marriage, treated the term in its pages as gay “marriage.” Likewise other terms. In the old Washington Times , there were no illegal immigrants, just “illegal aliens”; no gays, just “homosexuals.” Now comes the following memo...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: Washington Post , AP via Examiner.com , Washington Times A conservative Christian group yesterday criticized a large Methodist church in the District for planning to offer services that recognize gay and lesbian relationships, saying they violate the United Methodist ban on same-sex unions. Foundry United Methodist Church, which Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton attended when he was president, decided last month to support its senior pastor's decision to lead services that "recognize and honor" committed gay relationships. Foundry clergy, however, do not perform union ceremonies...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Washington Post For nearly a quarter-century they have come to the first floor of Children's Hospital: teenagers infected through circumstances, always tragic, or through choices, admittedly bad ones. More than 30 new cases in 2007 alone, as the epidemic that is HIV and AIDS extended its reach through a second generation of adolescents. Fears of ostracism have kept them largely silent elsewhere. As patients, however, they've been urged to talk. Not just about their pasts, but about living and dying and coping with the possibilities of both. Encouragement was all they needed. "Before...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: Washington Blade Whitman-Walker Clinic has hired a new chief medical officer, filling a position that had been vacant for more than a year, and put in place a new, state-of-the-art electronic record-keeping system for patient medical records, its chief executive officer announced this week. Don Blanchon, who assumed the Clinic’s top leadership post in May 2006, said the Clinic has nearly completed its goal of transforming itself into the Washington area’s preeminent primary care medical facility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. At the same time, he said the Clinic...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: Washington Blade One of five youths arrested for assaulting and robbing a gay man on a Metro subway train on Dec. 8 said the youths targeted Nathaniel Salerno, 25, for a mugging because he appeared drunk, not because of his sexual orientation, according to documents filed in D.C. Superior Court. “The defendant denies that he or any of the other suspects made any comments about the victim’s sexuality,” says a Metro police affidavit in support of an arrest warrant for Tarus R. Stroddard, 18, of Oxon Hill, Md. Court records show that Metro police charged Stroddard on Dec. 19 with robbery by...
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Friday, December 28
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Source: Editor and Publisher CHICAGO Hillary Clinton deserves the support of gay voters, despite the presidential record of her husband and her own refusal to support gay marriage, a major gay weekly says. In the current issue of the Washington Blade, editor Kevin Naff argues that Hillary Clinton's mastery of policy detail, Washington experience, and campaign tenacity makes her a far better presidential candidate than Barack Obama or any of her Democratic rivals. "Her chief rival, Obama, has disappointed in the debates, appearing to lack confidence and talking mostly in generalities,"...
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Wednesday, December 12
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Source: Washington Blade and DCist Gay D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) said he is asking Metro subway authorities to review policies for investigating bias-related crimes after news surfaced this week that Metro transit police failed to classify a violent attack against a gay man in a subway car last Saturday as a hate crime. Metro police revised their official report of the incident late Monday, listing it as a bias-related crime, after Nathaniel Salerno, the victim of the assault, told Channel 5 News in a broadcast interview that his attackers shouted anti-gay names at him as they punched...
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Tuesday, December 11
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Source: Washington Blade Window Media, owner of the Washington Blade, announced Tuesday that a new publisher has been hired to lead the nation’s oldest and largest gay newspaper. Lynne Brown, the Blade’s former director of business development, starts Wednesday as publisher. Brown said she was excited to rejoin the Blade. “I am thrilled to be returning to the Washington Blade newspaper, which is a true passion of mine,” she said. “It touches people’s lives.” William Kapfer, Window Media’s co-president and chief marketing officer, said Brown would be a strong asset to the Blade and its advertisers...
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Tuesday, December 04
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Source: Washington Blade The deaths of two gay men whose bodies were found four days apart in an apartment in Washington in September died of “acute intoxication” from drugs or alcohol, but it could not be determined whether the deaths were accidental or due to suicide or murder, according to a report completed Thursday by the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office. The men, who did not know each other, traveled separately in September from New York City to stay with Steven Saleh, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment at the upscale Envoy Towers at 2400 16th St., N.W., a police affidavit used to obtain...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Washington Blade A federal judge late Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit charging that the Library of Congress engaged in sex discrimination by refusing to hire a transgender women as an anti-terrorism expert despite her recognized qualifications for the job. United States District Court Judge James Robertson ruled that former U.S. Army Special Forces Officer Diane Schroer has legal grounds to file a sex discrimination claim against the library under Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Title VII is violated when an employer discriminates against any employee, transsexual...
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Monday, November 26
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Source: Washington Post Pastor Harry R. Jackson Jr. will often exhort his congregation to "stand against" abortion and same-sex marriage. "You are on the battlefield in a culture war," he'll say, urging his listeners to help serve as the "moral compass of America." In his rhetoric and his political agenda, Jackson has much in common with other evangelical Christians who are part of the conservative wing of the Republican party, except that Jackson is African American and so is his congregation at Hope Christian Church in Prince George's County. Jackson, head...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Military Times (includes additional material) Gay rights groups protesting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy are to plant 12,000 flags on the National Mall on Nov. 30, they announced Tuesday, to commemorate the 12,000 service members they say have been discharged under the ban on gays in the military. "One American flag will be placed on the Mall for each discharged service member, which will serve as the backdrop for a series of events honoring LGBT Americans' service, their sacrifice, and their fight to serve with dignity," Servicemembers United explained in...
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Monday, November 12
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Source: Washington Blade Baltimore police are looking for a man described as “armed and dangerous” who allegedly shot and robbed a transgender woman in Baltimore on Oct. 7 after picking her up on a street in Northwest Washington where transgender sex workers congregate. An official with a transgender drop-in center on North Capitol Street in D.C., which provides services to transgender sex workers, said D.C. police had not provided the center with a “wanted” poster with a photo of the shooting suspect as of early this week, even though Baltimore police say they sent the posters to D.C. police on...
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Friday, October 19
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Source: Washington Blade The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance -- Washington’s two most influential local gay political groups -- broke ranks with many of their fellow GLBT groups in states throughout the country by declining to ask Congress to vote against an employment non-discrimination bill that does not include protection for transgender persons. The Stein Club and GLAA signed on to an earlier statement circulated by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force saying they favor advancing a fully inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination...
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