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  • Book Ends

    By on December 10, 2009

    Inside Lambda Rising, D.C.'s only bookstore dedicated to the LGBT community, it's hard to find any indication that the store will be closing its doors...

  • Convocation to Council

    By on October 7, 2009

    Fresh from his flight home from Germany, where he was part of the final yet unsuccessful push to secure Washington's Gay Games bid for 2014,...

  • Our Glass

    By on September 30, 2009

    A Conversation with Cronkite GLBT History Month Calendar Time's Trails Personal Preservation GLBT history is all over the Washington area, easier to spot in some...

  • Time's Trails

    By on September 30, 2009

    A Conversation with Cronkite GLBT History Month Calendar Time's Trails Personal Preservation Even if you've never met Paul K. Williams, if you live in the...

  • Milestone Medals

    By on August 5, 2009

    The White House has announced that President Obama will soon award the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to legendary gay-rights activist...

  • Executive Exchange

    By on July 1, 2009

    Following weeks of criticism from gay activists, bloggers and political leaders, President Barack Obama welcomed more than 275 members of the GLBT community to a...

  • Employing Anger

    By on June 24, 2009

    Gay-rights pioneer Frank Kameny was in the White House on June 17 to attend the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on benefits for the same-sex...

  • Full Circle

    By on June 24, 2009

    Frank Kameny in the 2009 Capital Pride Parade Fifty-two years after being fired from the federal government for being gay, Frank Kameny has now being...

  • Wedding Planners

    By on April 1, 2009

    There was no press release, no big speech, no photo for posterity. Instead, it seems the meeting Councilmember David Catania (I-At large) called March 19...

  • Gay History Month

    By on October 1, 2008

    In September, for example, the Library of Congress announced that a collection of materials from pioneering gay-rights local Frank Kameny, known as the Kameny Papers,...

  • Bloc Party

    By on October 1, 2008

    Gay liberation was a product of its times. Its birth at the end of the '60s was no accident. By the time street queens and...

  • Inside Man

    By on March 12, 2008

    Earl Robert Merritt Jr., a.k.a. Butch Merritt, claims humble beginnings outside Charleston, W.Va. Had he remained in West Virginia, it's nearly certain his life would...

  • Last Word

    By on September 5, 2007

    Please share your memories of Cheryl Spector below. ''Cheryl and I met in the early 1990s during the days of Queer Nation and ACT UP....

  • Frank's Day

    By on June 6, 2007

    To mark two occasions -- the District's 2007 Capital Pride week and the 50-year anniversary of Frank Kameny's entry into the public fight for gay...

  • Acknowledging Accomplishment

    By on April 18, 2007

    Washington is a city bursting at the seams with history, though gay history doesn't often come to mind. New York trumps other locales with the...