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All posts tagged "gertrude stein democratic club"

  • GLAA and Stein Ready for Races

    When it comes candidates courting LGBT votes, the District enjoys an abundance of office seekers and incumbents. Several candidates running for political office tested their...

  • BREAKING: Mendelson Wins Interim Chair, Michael Brown Takes Interim Pro Tem

    Just one month after a special election in Ward 5 to replace former Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., Council Chairman Kwame Brown (D), first elected in...

  • LGBT Locals Cheer Obama's Marriage-Equality Stance

    To say that the reaction of the D.C. area's LGBT community to President Barack Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was favorable would be the understatement...

  • Stein-Backed McDuffie Wins in Landslide

    Judging from the results, the Ward 5 special election was a cakewalk for Kenyan McDuffie. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, not including absentee and...

  • McDuffie, Day Net Ward 5 Endorsements

    It's endorsement time in the Ward 5 race. With less than a month remaining before the May 15 special election to replace former Ward 5...

  • Incumbency Trumps in DC and Maryland

    As with District residents writ large, D.C.'s LGBT community shouldn't expect any major changes in its collective relationship with the city's elected officials. With results...

  • MPD Updates Stein Club on Anti-LGBT Crimes

    Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Peter Newsham and Capt. Edward Delgado of MPD's Special Liaison Unit, which includes the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU),...

  • Showdown at Stein

    Former Councilmember Sekou Biddle (D-At Large) and sitting Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large), who replaced Biddle in an April 2011 special election, sparred over their...

  • LGBT Activists Reject Marion Barry, Yvette Alexander

    If elections were solely decided by the LGBT community, some incumbent councilmembers would be serving on borrowed time. Incumbent Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and...

  • Stein Dems Endorse Muriel Bowser

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.'s foremost LGBT Democratic organization, last night endorsed incumbent City Councilmember Muriel Bowser in her Ward 4 race with 72...

  • Gay Group Calls for Thomas To Go

    Following the search of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr.'s (D-Ward 5) Brentwood home by FBI and IRS agents Dec. 2, the DC Log Cabin Republicans,...

  • Stein Dems' Milestone

    The Gertrude Stein Democratic Club will celebrate its 35th anniversary Oct. 27 by presenting awards to local leaders and activists who have made an impact...

  • D.C. Goes for Orange

    While the results are not yet official, it appears that D.C. voters returned Vincent Orange (D) to the City Council in Tuesday's special election to...

  • Election Day

    When Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Jeffrey Richardson left the organization to serve as the director of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs, Lateefah Williams,...

  • Stein Offers Awards

    There's certainly cause to celebrate, says Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Jeffrey Richardson of the group's upcoming annual awards reception on Oct. 28. ''We're really...