Human Rights

A Loving Community: GLAA Policy Brief 2024

GLAA is proud to share A Loving Community: GLAA Policy Brief 2024. This brief reflects the work and dedication of DC’s grassroots movements. The included priorities are concrete proposals to…

Leave No One Behind: Building an LGBTQ+ movement for all

– GLAA Board Despite the expansion of LGBTQ+ civil rights and liberties in DC, some of which we proudly attribute to GLAA’s stalwart activism for the past 51 years, the…

Points Breakdown for GLAA 2022 Primary Election Ratings

Points Breakdown for GLAA 2022 Primary Election Ratings Candidate Ratings as of May 10, 2022   Questionnaire Key available ratings points: Yes/No: + 2 points: Questionnaire: substantive grasp of issues +…

GLAA rates 2022 Primary Electoral Candidates 

GLAA rates 2022 Primary Electoral Candidates  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2022 Contact: Tyrone Hanley, GLAA President  Email: equal@glaa.org  GLAA releases its candidate ratings for the 2022 DC primary election…

RELEASE: GLAA rates 2022 Primary Electoral Candidates 

GLAA rates 2022 Primary Electoral Candidates  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 10, 2022 Contact: Tyrone Hanley, GLAA President  Email: equal@glaa.org  GLAA releases its candidate ratings for the 2022 DC primary election…

Robert White, Jordan Grossman Top GLAA Ratings

Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, DC, P.O. Box 75265, Washington, DC 20013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2020 Contact: Rick Rosendall 202-328-6278 Robert White, Jordan Grossman Lead GLAA…

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Abused refugee hangs himself outside UNHCR office in Nairobi

Refugee Flag Kenya posted on Facebook early Monday morning, April 13, accompanied by awful photos and a video of a young man hanging from a tree: ERNEST MWIRU, One of…

GLAA urges more funding for OHR, faults unfunded mandates

Testimony of Tyrone Hanley On the behalf of GLAA Before the Committee on Government Affairs Brandon Todd, Chairman Council of the District of Columbia January 22, 2020 Room 412 John…

GLAA testifies for Panic Defense Prohibition Act

Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington Testimony on Bill 23-409, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019, and Bill 23-435, Tony Hunter and Bella Evangelista…

Tennessee honors Nathan Bedford Forrest

I posted the following thoughts this morning to Facebook: I repost the magisterial remarks of Ta-Nehisi Coates from the hearing on H.R.40 last month because he observed, among other things,…