Victim was walking home from 17th Street bars
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington Blade | Dec. 16 at 1:43 PM Dec. 16 at 1:43 PM
A 35-year-old gay man was shot in the head and killed shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday at 11th and Q streets, N.W., while walking home from the Fox & Hound, a restaurant and bar near Dupont Circle, according to D.C. police.
The victim was identified as Durval V. Martins of the 200 block of Bates Street, N.W. A police statement said Martins also suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
Acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, said the motive for the killing was unknown but could have been robbery. He noted that officers found the victim’s wallet in his hand.
Martins’ credit cards, cash, cell phone, and jewe ...
Site saw similar damage in August
BERLIN (AP) | Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM
Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone.
The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete memorial and view a video of a same-sex couple kissing.
The memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten park was inaugurated in May and suffered similar damage to the same window in August.
A protest held after that attack to denounce intolerance and homophobia drew more than 100 people including Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
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Out lesbian Nancy Sutley will lead Council on Environment Quality
WASHINGTON (AP) | Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM
President-elect Barack Obama has his green team. And for environmentalists, it is a dream team.
Obama on Monday selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey's environmental department, to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner, the longest-serving EPA administrator in history, headed the agency during the Clinton administration's two terms.
And while it wasn't officially announced, a tran ...
Victim was walking home from 17th Street bars
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington Blade | Dec. 16 at 1:43 PM Dec. 16 at 1:43 PM
A 35-year-old gay man was shot in the head and killed shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday at 11th and Q streets, N.W., while walking home from the Fox & Hound, a restaurant and bar near Dupont Circle, according to D.C. police.
The victim was identified as Durval V. Martins of the 200 block of Bates Street, N.W. A police statement said Martins also suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
Acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, said the motive for the killing was unknown but could have been robbery. He noted that officers found the victim’s wallet in his hand.
Martins’ credit cards, cash, cell phone, and jewe ...
Site saw similar damage in August
BERLIN (AP) | Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM
Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone.
The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete memorial and view a video of a same-sex couple kissing.
The memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten park was inaugurated in May and suffered similar damage to the same window in August.
A protest held after that attack to denounce intolerance and homophobia drew more than 100 people including Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
...
Out lesbian Nancy Sutley will lead Council on Environment Quality
WASHINGTON (AP) | Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM
President-elect Barack Obama has his green team. And for environmentalists, it is a dream team.
Obama on Monday selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey's environmental department, to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner, the longest-serving EPA administrator in history, headed the agency during the Clinton administration's two terms.
And while it wasn't officially announced, a tran ...
Site saw similar damage in August
BERLIN (AP) | Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM Dec. 16 at 11:12 AM
Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone.
The window allows visitors to see inside the concrete memorial and view a video of a same-sex couple kissing.
The memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten park was inaugurated in May and suffered similar damage to the same window in August.
A protest held after that attack to denounce intolerance and homophobia drew more than 100 people including Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.
...
Out lesbian Nancy Sutley will lead Council on Environment Quality
WASHINGTON (AP) | Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM Dec. 16 at 9:19 AM
President-elect Barack Obama has his green team. And for environmentalists, it is a dream team.
Obama on Monday selected Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu as energy secretary and Lisa Jackson, the former head of New Jersey's environmental department, to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Carol Browner, a confidante of former Vice President Al Gore, will lead a White House council on energy and climate. Browner, the longest-serving EPA administrator in history, headed the agency during the Clinton administration's two terms.
And while it wasn't officially announced, a tran ...
Both parties in same-sex couple may list names
NEW YORK (AP) | Dec. 15 at 8:46 AM Dec. 15 at 8:46 AM
State officials will now let married same-sex couples list both their names on their children's birth certificates in a policy shift deeply important to many gays and lesbians.
The decision, which echoes similar provisions in states that allow gay marriages or civil unions, is one of many changes since Gov. David Paterson ordered state agencies in May to respect out-of-state gay marriages.
The state Health Department said Friday it had agreed to the change, which came after a lesbian couple who are expecting a baby filed a lawsuit. The change would apply statewide except in New York City, which is considering revamping its own birth certificate forms to accommodat ...
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