LGBTQ+ Trump tries (again) to confirm gay federal appeals judgewashingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson In an unexpected role reversal, President Trump is trying — for a second time — to confirm a gay U.S. prosecutor to a federal appeals court despite …
LGBTQ+ Calendar: Sept. 20-26washingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten The REACH Opening Festival starts today from 9 a.m.-10:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (2700 F St., N.W.). The event includes 16 …
LGBTQ+ Trans March is next weekendwashingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten The National Trans Visibility March on DC is Saturday, Sept. 28 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Freedom Plaza (1455 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.). Registration for …
LGBTQ+ Fashion event is Sept. 28washingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten D.C. Fashion Week presents the Metropolitan Emerging Designers and Indie Artists (M.E.D.I.A.) showcase Saturday, Sept. 28 from 7-9 p.m. at the …
Queer keyboard virtuososwashingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten Lots of big queer keyboard opportunities in the coming days. Organist Nathan J. Laube plays a dedicatory recital for the finally completed …
LGBTQ+ Busy rugby career keeps former Navy commander busywashingtonblade.com - Kevin Majoros When rugby players reach the end of their playing career, they either leave the sport, become coaches or referees. Gus Ventura was about eight years …
Rights & Freedoms Robert Destro confirmed to State Department human rights positionwashingtonblade.com - Michael K. Lavers The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Robert Destro as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Destro, a law professor at …
Ben Carson Carson remarks on men infiltrating women’s shelters rebuked as anti-transwashingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Ben Carson is facing criticism for remarks about “big, hairy men” in women’s homeless shelters perceived as …
LGBTQ+ PHOTOS: 2019 Best of Gay D.C. Partywashingtonblade.com - Michael Key September 19, 2019 at 10:30 pm EDT | by Michael Key
LGBTQ+ Buttigieg: ‘I can’t even read the LGBT media anymore’washingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson Gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was dismissive of the LGBT media Wednesday in comments falsely suggesting LGBT outlets were responsible for …
LGBTQ+ QUEERY: Timur Jonathan Tugberkwashingtonblade.com - Joey DiGuglielmo Timur Jonathan Tugberk is a name you don’t encounter every day. Timur is derived, he says, from the Islamic conqueror Tamberlame, a “ruthless warrior …
LGBTQ+ Hitchcock film series is next weekendwashingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten The National Museum of American History (14th St. and Constitution Ave., N.W.) runs the Alfred Hitchcock film series Sept. 28-29 starting at 9 a.m. …
LGBTQ+ Casa Ruby clients attacked, robbed outside DC parkwashingtonblade.com - Lou Chibbaro Jr. D.C. police are seeking help from the public in identifying a male suspect who assaulted and robbed a transgender woman at about 9:25 a.m. Tuesday, …
LGBTQ+ Best of Gay D.C. XVIIIwashingtonblade.com - Staff reports Christmas comes early this year! Long an October staple, the Blade’s annual Best of Gay D.C. readers’ poll awards gets bumped up to September this …
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund gathers Oct. 1washingtonblade.com - Philip Van Slooten Dacha Beer Garden (1600 7th St., N.W.) hosts the LGBTQ Victory Fund Happy Hour fundraiser Tuesday, Oct. 1 from 4-8 p.m. Attendees can enjoy extended …
LGBTQ+ No, Biden didn’t ‘shine’ in debatewashingtonblade.com - Peter Rosenstein Contrary to the Washington Post’s initial headline “Joe Biden Shines” in the third debate on Dan Balz’s column, he did not shine. In fact the Post …
LGBTQ+ Apple ads fall far from the LGBT treewashingtonblade.com - Scott Stiffler We buy their phones, wear their watches, and use their products to drive our businesses—but finding their iconic ads in the pages of your local LGBT …
D.C. Council Revisiting Douglas Moore’s anti-gay rhetoric on Councilwashingtonblade.com - Lou Chibbaro Jr. Former D.C. Council member Douglas E. Moore, a Methodist minister who in 1977 referred to gay activists as “fascist faggots” and who emerged as an …
LGBTQ+ In Baltimore, businesses fill gap left by closing of the Eaglewashingtonblade.com - Ed Gunts For years, the building at 1725 Ponca St. in East Baltimore was a female strip club known as Night Shift, catering to workers at the old General …
LGBTQ+ Blade contributor from Cuba granted asylum in USwashingtonblade.com - Michael K. Lavers A Washington Blade contributor from Cuba who suffered persecution because he is a journalist has received asylum in the U.S. Yariel Valdés González on …
LGBTQ+ Something worth more than winningwashingtonblade.com - Richard J. Rosendall One of the LGBT refugees in Kenya whom I have helped in the past few years is a Ugandan named Musa. Last Wednesday, after years of waiting and …
LGBTQ+ Transgender Brazilians ‘afraid for our lives’washingtonblade.com - Michael K. Lavers Two transgender activists from Brazil who spoke in D.C. last week said their country has become even more dangerous for trans Brazilians since …
LGBTQ+ Two versions of bill to ban LGBT panic defense introduced in D.C. Councilwashingtonblade.com - Lou Chibbaro Jr. D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At-Large) and Council member David Grosso (I-At-Large) introduced separate versions of a bill this week calling …
LGBTQ+ Tech entrepreneur seeks to become Indiana’s first out governorwashingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson Pete Buttigieg isn’t the out gay person from Indiana with high political ambitions. Josh Owens, a tech entrepreneur who leads one of Indiana’s fastest …
LGBTQ+ PHOTOS: 30 years of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williamswashingtonblade.com - Michael Key The furniture company Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams celebrated its 30 year anniversary on Thursday, Sept. 12. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
LGBTQ+ SMYAL to debut second facility for homeless LGBT youthwashingtonblade.com - Lou Chibbaro Jr. The D.C.-based LGBT youth services group SMYAL is scheduled to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 19, to dedicate the official opening …
LGBTQ+ Tremenda Nota, yet another publication you can’t read in Cubawashingtonblade.com - Tremenda Nota Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Cuba. This article was published on Tremenda Nota’s website on Sept. 16. Just …
LGBTQ+ Gay philanthropist Tim Gill to obtain high honor in Coloradowashingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson Tim Gill, a gay Colorado based philanthropist who has donated more than $500 million to organizations working to advance LGBT rights, is set to …
LGBTQ+ Ariz. court rules for wedding invitation business seeking to turn away gayswashingtonblade.com - Chris Johnson The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled the City of Phoenix cannot apply its LGBT-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance to penalize a local business for …
