Karmin performs “Hello” at the Capital Pride Festival
By Metro Weekly Contributor
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June 11, 2014

Karmin Performs “Hello” at the 2014 Capital Pride Festival in Washington, D.C.
Gina Ortiz Jones was elected mayor of San Antonio in a runoff election on June 7.
The victory was historic, as Jones is not only San Antonio's first out LGBTQ mayor but the first Asian-American female mayor of a major city in Texas and the first female mayor in Texas to have served in a war.
(She's a former Air Force officer and Iraq War veteran who previously served as Under Secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration.)
Jones is also the first mayor since 2005 to not have previously served on the city council and will serve a four-year term.
"Darling, I loved your performance. I just love your new songs."
Brooke Eden received those words of praise from an older gentleman after a recent performance in Los Angeles. Amidst a crowd of mostly twentysomethings and thirtysomethings, there was this man, whom the 36-year-old Eden describes as "a 70ish-year-old cowboy cowboy get-up from head-to-toe -- the hat, the Wranglers, the nice starched western shirt, and boots."
"Your hat is missing a pin," the cowboy added, proceeding to remove a pin from his hat and fasten it to Eden's hat with the explanation, "I earned this in the gay rodeo from 1988."
A masked assailant threw a sharp rock through the front window of a gay couple's home in Northeast D.C., striking one of the men in the head.
The attack occurred last Friday in the city’s Kingman Park neighborhood, just as WorldPride weekend festivities were set to begin.
Surveillance video captured the assault. In the footage, a masked individual approaches the couple’s house -- decorated with rainbow Pride flags in the front yard -- and hurls a rock through the front window before fleeing. A cry can be heard from inside the home.

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