Opinion | Sharon Brackett, an activist remembered
The quiet passing of a trans activist is seldom marked among the headlines. Where their work is most necessary, they are too much resented; and where their work is not resented, they are too often...
View ArticleMd. trans activist, businesswoman Sharon Brackett dies at 59
Sharon Brackett, a Maryland businesswoman and transgender rights advocate who played a lead role in the successful effort to persuade the Maryland Legislature to pass transgender rights legislation in...
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LGBT legal groups urge Supreme Court to resist Trump on trans military ban
LGBT legal groups urged the Supreme Court to resist Trump on transgender military ban.(Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) LGBT legal groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court this week to decline to...
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Top 10 national stories of 2018
Pelosi roars back, courts block military trans ban and more. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) No. 10: Ric Grenell confirmed as ambassador U.S. Ambassador to Germandy Richard Grenell (Photo...
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The unclear future of LGBTQ rights at the Supreme Court
(Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) The Supreme Court’s new term began Oct. 1. The justices have not yet accepted any cases squarely addressing LGBTQ rights questions; however, numerous...
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OutServe-SLDN leader Matthew Thorn steps down after 4 years
Andy Blevins (left) will replace Matthew Thorn at OutServe-SLDN (Photo of Blevins via Facebook; Washington Blade photo of Thorn by Michael Key)The LGBT military group OutServe-SLDN is undergoing a...
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National LGBT Veterans Memorial stalled due to lack of funds
A rendering of the planned LGBT memorial at Congressional Cemetery. (Image courtesy Congressional Cemetery) Longtime LGBT rights advocate Nancy Russell, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, was...
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Outserve-SLDN turns 25
SLDN advocates rally in favor of ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal late in 2010 prior to the vote to repeal. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) Outserve-SLDN hosts Serving with Pride, its 25th anniversary...
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Nancy Pelosi to be honored at OutServe-SLDN’s Serving with Pride
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) OutServe-SLDN will honor House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during its 25th Anniversary Year Kickoff Reception...
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HIV+ Army sergeant sues to continue serving
Sgt. Nick Harrison (Photo courtesy of Lambda Legal) ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN filed a lawsuit May 30 on behalf of a sergeant in the D.C. Army National Guard who was denied the...
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Air Force lifts penalty on officer who won’t recognize gay airman’s spouse
Air Force Col. Leland Bohannon won’t recognize his subordinate’s same-sex marriage. (Photo public domain) In a move LGBT rights supporters say amounts to allowing discrimination in the U.S. military,...
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LGBT advocates blast Trump’s transgender military ban in new TV ad
(Photo courtesy of Bigstock) LGBT advocacy groups have banded together to release a television ad that attacks President Donald Trump’s ban against transgender service members in the military. Human...
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Pentagon to allow trans enlistments Jan. 1 after latest court order
The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will allow transgender service members to enlist starting Jan. 1. (Photo courtesy Department of Defense) The Pentagon has affirmed it will allow...
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Trump administration: Legal challenge to trans military ban ‘premature’
The Justice Department argues a legal challenge to President Trump’s transgender military ban is ‘premature.’ (Photo by Michael Vadon; courtesy Wikimedia Commons) The Trump administration called a...
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FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2017: HRC dinner, High Heel Race, Youth Pride among...
High Heel Race (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) Some events don’t fit in our other fall arts categories. Here are a few to note. If no URL is given, search for the event on Facebook for details....
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Law schools weigh bans on military recruiters over trans policy
As dean of Harvard Law School, Associate Justice Elena Kagan tried to find a compromise on banning military recruiters in the days of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)...
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Trans military ban halted by war threat
President Donald Trump caved to pressure from religious conservatives and announced a ban on trans service members. (Photo courtesy of the White House YouTube channel) It took the threat of nuclear war...
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Trans troops continue their service as Trump threatens expulsion
Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann is continuing to do his job, despite President Trump’s announcement that he intends to ban transgender people...
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Baltimore activists slam Trump’s trans ban
‘Donald Trump launched a full-fledged attack on the transgender service members who seek to dutifully serve our nation,’ said Mark Procopio, executive director of FreeState Justice. (Photo courtesy of...
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Cries of ‘resist!’ at rallies in Baltimore, Frederick
A crowd gathers at an anti-Trump rally in Baltimore on Thursday. (Photo by Bob Ford) In anticipation of a rumored anti-LGBT executive order from President Donald Trump, the Pride Foundation of...
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