District of Columbia’s Mayoral Candidates for 2014
Next Tuesday, Nov. 4, is Election Day in the District of Columbia, and voters will head to local polling places to select the person who will replace incumbent Vincent Gray as the city’s next mayor. They will also cast votes for several other local races — most notably, the city’s first popularly-elected Attorney General. To help enlighten our readers, Metro Weekly sat down for face-to-face interviews with three of four mayoral candidates: Democrat Muriel Bowser, independent Carol Schwartz, and Libertarian Party nominee Bruce Majors. We previously interviewed independent David Catania as part of a similar feature for a separate issue.
For the other races, we sent all candidates who qualified for the ballot a questionnaire specifically geared towards their race, be it the D.C. Council, the State Board of Education or Attorney General. You’ll find abbreviated versions of their responses here, with the full questionnaires available at the links below. This will help you compare the positions of these various candidates before making an informed decision once inside the voting booth.
About 100 members of Taipei's LGBTQ community protested outside a local police station on October 4 after officers raided a gay bar, taking 51 people in for questioning and arresting its owner.
The raid on Commander D, a gay bar in Taipei's Wanhua district, took place on the afternoon of October 3, reports Reuters.
Police precinct spokesman Chen Yu-cheng said officers executed a search warrant for suspected "offenses against public morality." He said the people taken in for questioning were suspected of violating a law prohibiting "wantonly exposing one's naked body or presenting a lascivious posture in a public place or publicly accessible place."
A new AI-generated attack ad supporting Jennifer Balkcom, the Republican nominee for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, accuses Democratic nominee Jamie Ager of hosting a barn dance with drag queens and children.
The ad, paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee and approved by Balkcom, was posted to the North Carolina Republican Party's official X account on October 22.
The ad shows Ager speaking into a microphone, with a Progress Pride flag hanging on a barn wall behind him. "Wanna know what we need more of in Washington, D.C.? Barn dances!" he says, as ABBA's "Dancing Queen" starts playing.
Joseph LoGiudice, the founder and clinical director of Manhattan's Liberation Psychotherapy, an LGBTQ-centered practice, has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two patients, including allegedly raping a man in his 30s in his office.
According to prosecutors, the patient -- who was attending therapy to cope with a sexual assault -- told LoGiudice he did not want to have sex because he was recovering from anal surgery.
At an October 1 bail hearing, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Claudia Khoury-Yacoub alleged that LoGiudice began sexually exploiting the patient shortly after he joined the therapy group in fall 2022.
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