Photo by giantminispacegoat Bless DC Agenda’s Lou Chibbaro, Jr., who managed to stay up late enough to watch the Senate vote to block an amendment that would have forced a ballot measure on D.C.’s same-sex marriage law. The amendment, offered by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), was killed after the Senate voted 59-36 to deny a motion to waive the parliamentarian ruling that it was out of order. The vote came sometime after 1 a.m….

Photo by Scubaben The Washington Post has it that the mini-mass same-sex wedding that took place yesterday did not live up to expectations. Some 400 same-sex couples ostensibly intended to get married and make a statement by doing it together (and break a Guinness World Record to boot) — but only 15 couples signed up. I say: all the better for same-sex rights activists and their allies. It’s any couple’s right to wed however they…

Photo by qbubbles Opponents of marriage equality may be persistent, but they’re also persistently getting shot down. On Friday, yet another D.C. Superior Court judge refused to overturn a decision by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics prohibiting a vote on same-sex marriage. So far, the board has knocked down three attempts to put marriage equality on a District ballot, and just last month a judge agreed with the board’s reasoning that any…

Jason Cherkis broke down the most recent set of crime data from MPD on Friday, and his findings were disturbing. While the number of hate crimes — or, perhaps more accurately, the number of reported hate crimes — have remained stagnant over the last three years, hate crimes involving sexual orientation have skyrocketed in Wards 7 and 8, compared to 2008. Wards 7 and 8, eh? Cherkis goes ahead and makes the negative connection which…