Category: News

GLAA 2022 General Election Ratings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2022 Contact: Tyrone Hanley, GLAA President Email: equal@glaa.org October 13, 2022 – GLAA is glad to release our official 2022 General Elections Ratings. The ratings are [...]

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 [...]

GLAA primary ratings in the news

GLAA’s ratings of DC Council primary candidates have been in the news. Here are some links. The Winner of the Ward 2 Primary is Anyone’s Guess Mitch Ryals (Loose Lips), [...]

Points breakdown for GLAA primary ratings 2020

Note: Ratings marked with an asterisk (*) indicate a candidate who did not return GLAA’s questionnaire and was therefore rated solely on their known record on GLAA’s issues. At-Large Robert [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Blade: Second transgender woman killed in Fairmount Heights

Michael K. Lavers of the Washington Blade reports: A transgender woman was killed in Fairmount Heights on Thursday. Major Brian Reilly of the Prince George’s County Police Department told reporters [...]

LGBTQ orgs urge increased funding for Human Rights and LGBTQ Affairs

The following group letter was sent today: 4/30/19 Dear Chairman Mendelson and Councilmember Todd: The undersigned LGBTQ organizations urge the DC Council to increase funding for the Office of Human [...]