Public Safety

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 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…

GLAA testifies in support of sex work decriminalization

Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington Testimony on Bill 23-0318, Community Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2019 Before the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety D.C. Council October…

GLAA supports Panic Defense Prohibition Act

September 17, 2019 Dear Chairman Allen and members of the Judiciary Committee, GLAA asks that you hold hearings and advance the Tony Hunter and Bella Evangelista Panic Defense Prohibition Act…

On policing the bushes in Malcolm X Park

In the 1980s, half my lifetime ago, I met a beautiful deaf man on the Metro and we exchanged comments on a notepad he carried. “I know a place we…

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,…

Rosendall speaks at Vigil Against the Violence

Remarks by Richard J. Rosendall Vigil Against the Violence Dupont Circle June 21, 2019 Ashanti and Zoe were in their 20s. They were murdered in separate incidents near Eastern Avenue….

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…