Posted on 04 February 2010
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday she’s unsure whether the House will overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this year before the Pentagon completes its review on implementing repeal. “I don’t know,” she said during her weekly press conference. “I’ll have to examine. We’ll take a look. We’ll sit down together and see what is [...] Continue Reading...
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is recommending to President Obama that he nominate for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve on the federal bench, according to the senator’s office.
The senator has designated Daniel Alter to serve as judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. His appointment is [...]
At least seven LGBT people are among the 24 newly appointed members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
The induction of the new PACHA members, who Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave the oath of office Feb. 2, comes six months after Sebelius dismissed all of the presidential advisory body’s existing members, who [...]
A Washington Post poll published Sunday shows that 56 percent of adult D.C. residents surveyed favor legalizing same-sex marriage in the city compared to 35 percent who said they oppose it, with 9 percent saying they had no opinion.
But the same poll also found that 59 percent of residents surveyed favor putting the issue to [...]
A leading opponent of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the U.S. Senate on Saturday announced plans to introduce a budget amendment that would cut off funds for implementing the law, according to The Advocate.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) reportedly made the announcement during a speech Saturday at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in New York City.
“Tonight, I am announcing that I plan to introduce [...]
Charles Miller knows music, but it’s mostly in the classical vein. He’s been called one of D.C.’s most brilliant organists and his office at National City Christian Church is well stocked, as one might imagine, with CDs, hymnals, file cabinets full of scores and scholarly books on music. It’s easy to throw him, though, when [...]
In “Beauty of the Father” — Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s exploration of familial bonds — a young American woman travels to southern Spain to meet her estranged artist father. Things go OK until she falls in love (and in bed) with dad’s much younger boyfriend, and that’s where it gets a little tense. A [...]
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