The move follows the Mayor’s ban last week over a controversial law passed in the Tarheel state.
An order by the mayor already bans travel to North Carolina.
An asteroid has been named after gay rights pioneer and D.C. resident Frank Kameny.
Never lose your cool. That seems to be the mantra under which directors Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet operated in the making of this documentary. The film contains enough inflammatory information — about the efforts of the Mormon Church to ban gay marriage in California — to send any supporter of marriage equality into a rage. To their credit, the filmmakers present their story in a calm, even manner, wisely allowing the passions of…
When news spread that the court would hand down its ruling today, D.C. gay rights activists made immediate plans for a gathering tonight, the flavor to be determined by how the justices ruled. Well, the court has decided to uphold the proposition, which bans gay marriage in the state. So tonight’s gathering, starting at 8:30, will definitely be a protest. One positive note, though obviously bittersweet: the justices ruled that about 18,000 same-sex marriages sealed…
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Outrage Opponents of Kirby Dick’s new documentary — we covered one earlier today — will say that people’s private lives should remain private. The subjects of the documentary are closeted elected officials who actively legislate against gay rights. So how much claim to privacy do they have when they push laws that block equal rights for…
Today is National Coming Out Day, a day when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to be open about who they are. The annual observance began on October 11, 1988, exactly one year after the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. (The first one was held October 14, 1979.) While there aren’t usually major events to commemorate the day, there are a couple of local events that coincide with…
Via Gothamist, the New York Post reports on what looks to be a prank involving the American University alumni magazine, American Magazine, on two graduates of the D.C. school who later lived together in New York. In the spring edition of the magazine, it was apparently falsely reported that Ross Weil, 29, and Brett Royce, 28 were “life partners” who had been gay married, adding that they were leaders of a fake group called the…
If you didn’t muster the courage to apply for the D.C. Comedy Fest back in January, then at the very least, watch the people who did. Starting tonight, the fest will feature three night’s worth of shows, including an ode to what Bush did right, finalists in a short comedy film fest and auditions for Leno and Lettermen where big-deal bookers like Bob Read of Last Comic Standing will hover in the audience, sniffing out…
On the same day that we receive news the the District is elevating the level of importance they give to protecting and promoting gay, bisexual, and trangender rights, we find Virginia continuing its long march in the opposite direction. As we noted last week, Virginia’s voters will have a chance this November to amend their state constitution so as to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, thus putting the final…