The ACLU is looking for plaintiffs to mount a lawsuit against Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban passed in 2006.

The District of Columbia leads the United States the rate at which people are arrested for marijuana possession, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.

By DCist contributor Christopher Durocher. This weekend, the Library of Congress, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) each honored the contributions of Franklin E. Kameny, an 81-year-old D.C. resident who has served as a civil rights icon for the past half a century. Kameny’s activism began in 1957, when he appealed his dismissal from the Army Map Service of being gay. He has continued to live an out, proud life…

WTOP is reporting that D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has not decided whether he will sign the “First Amendment Rights and Police Standards Act of 2004” which was passed by a 12-1 vote in the D.C. Council last year. Art Spitzer of the American Civil Liberties Union said, “It’s not unusual for the mayor to take full time with a bill. I understand he’s been ill — maybe that stuff’s been pushed back on his…

In more protest news, seven of the 400+ protesters unlawfully arrested in Pershing Park during the September 2002 protests against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank reached a settlement with the District of Columbia today in federal court. The seven plantiffs, including Adam Eidinger, his wife Alexis Baden-Mayer and her father Joe Mayer, will receive $48,000 each and a letter of apology from Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Charles Ramsey. (The photo is…