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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…

GLAA memorial tribute to Ashanti Carmon and Mary Klein

Memorial Tribute Presented by Richard J. Rosendall GLAA 48th anniversary reception Lost Society April 18, 2019 Ashanti Carmon was a 27-year-old trans woman who was murdered early on March 30…

GLAA and allies fight for medical aid in dying

Fenit Nirappil reports for WaPo: Nearly a year after the District enacted a law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives … not a single patient has used it…….

Abortion extremism is only on the anti-choice side

Conservative NYT columnist Ross Douthat makes a case for moral equivalence with a piece titled “Among the Abortion Extremists.” As someone who has been threatened over my pro-choice views to…

8 months later, Tess Rafferty’s scathing election response is still spot-on

I only just discovered this fine rant by Tess Rafferty this morning, July 5. It feels as timely as when she wrote it after the election. (Hat tip: Morgan McDonald)

GLAA Statement on Capital Pride Protest

GLAA Statement on Capital Pride Protest June 15, 2017 At this year’s Capital Pride Parade, a small group of individuals chose to engage in protests that caused delays and made…

Trump’s Twitter secret revealed

Unlettered eloquence, as Dr. King said of Mother Pollard. (She said during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, “My feets is tired but my soul is rested.”)

Making an honest, unflinching, centrist case for reproductive choice

One reader loves to respond to my columns by email, regardless of the topic under discussion, by calling me genocidal because I support a woman’s right to make her own…

Bishop Gene Robinson

LGBT coalition protests “religious freedom” executive order

Chris Johnson reports at Washington Blade: A coalition of leaders from civil rights groups protested Wednesday in Lafayette Park in anticipation of President Trump signing a “religious freedom” executive order…

The Ever-Growing List of Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ Appointees

We know your list of anti-LGBTQ Trump appointees is getting a little out of hand, but we’ve got one more for you; Charmaine Yoest, new Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs…