Feature Story: All dates are subject to change at each organizer's discretion. For more detailed information as events approach, check Metro Weekly's ''Community Calendar,'' your complete guide to local community events, both in print and online at www.metroweekly.com. JANUARY WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7 -- The Maryland chapter of the Stonewall Democrats meets in Baltimore for an organizational meeting, from 7-8:30 p.m., 2640 St. Paul St., Baltimore. For more information, call 410-800-8109, or e-mail baltimorestonewall@gmail.com. SUNDAY, JAN. 11 -- Be Charitable: DC for Marriage hosts a fundraising event at Be Bar, 1318 Ninth St. NW. http://dcformarriage.blogspot.com. ...more
Gauge: On Dec. 16, Whitman-Walker Clinic, founded in 1973 as a gay men's STD clinic and today serving a diverse population of clients while maintaining GLBT and HIV/AIDS commitments in its mission, announced that as a result of the current recession it would be closing its Northern Virginia site, ending an addiction-treatment program and laying off up to 45 staff members -- about twice as many layoffs as the clinic suffered at the start of 2008. Barbara Chinn, a clinic employee for more than 20 years and head of its Max Robinson Center in Southeast since the mid 1990s, knew she might be one of those let go. That such a cut would not include severance came as a shock. ''(WWC CEO) Don (Blanchon) made it perfectly clear that it could be anyone, but I was very surprised that there was no severance, considering (my) service,'' says Chinn, who will mark her last day on the WWC payroll on New Year's Eve. Despite that surprise, in a letter penned not long after she learned of her layoff, Chinn asked the MRC's Community Advisory Committee to continue its work advancing the clinic and the MRC. ...more
Gauge: Paquita Wiggins Paquita Wiggins feeds off of adversity. Even before the 31-year-old Chicago native came out as a lesbian, she was advocating for gay equality as a freshman at Tuskegee University in Alabama. ''It's a predominately black institution and it's in Alabama,'' she says. ''The first time I got there, the president said something very anti-gay about how, 'There will be no gay organizations at this institution.' I was pretty young and not even out. But when you hear those things, you feel compelled to do something. I heard him say, 'No gay groups,' so that made me want to develop one.'' ...more
Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire
Evangelicals expect clergymen to use Jesus' name
(AP) | Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At
Evangelicals expect clergymen to use Jesus' name
(AP) | Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At
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Belt-tightening is more than a post-holiday need as forecast calls for slow '09. Nashville's GLBT business community is feeling the effects of the national economic slowdown, but most local business owners say that with proper planning, and continued...
Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire
Evangelicals expect clergymen to use Jesus' name
(AP) | Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At
Evangelicals expect clergymen to use Jesus' name
(AP) | Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM Dec. 31 at 1:57 PM
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At
Fort Benning soldier charged with sexual assault
Army buddy claims he woke to the incident
By MIKE FLEMING | Dec. 31 at 10:47 AM Dec. 31 at 10:47 AM
A party night in Columbus, Ga., for a group of Fort Benning soldiers ended with two of them involved sexual assault, Phenix City, Ala., police told WTVM-TV in Alabama.
Army buddy claims he woke to the incident
By MIKE FLEMING | Dec. 31 at 10:47 AM Dec. 31 at 10:47 AM
A party night in Columbus, Ga., for a group of Fort Benning soldiers ended with two of them involved sexual assault, Phenix City, Ala., police told WTVM-TV in Alabama.
Christopher Whitfield is in jail in Phenix City after his friend awoke to the assault, according to police. No sexual or romantic relationship existed between the two soldiers before the incident, the alleged victim told officials.
Check 'The Wire' on this site's home page for the WTVM-TV story and video.
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Fauver picks up gay challenger in Atlanta City Council race
Stadtlander to officially announce candidacy Jan. 7
By MATT SCHAFER | Dec. 30 at 5:50 PM Dec. 30 at 5:50 PM
The only openly gay member of the Atlanta City Council will face at least one opponent in the Nov. 3 election. Charlie Stadtlander, a former member of the Log Cabin Republicans, will officially declare his candidacy on Jan. 7.
Stadtlander, who is gay, is an elementary school teacher who moved to Atlanta two years ago and quickly involved himself in the city’s political scene. He will oppose lesbian Anne Fauver in the District 6 race. She has held the post encompassing the heavily gay district for two terms.
“Although I’ve been here two years, I moved here after college,” Stadtlander said. “I’ve fallen in love with Atlanta and ...
Stadtlander to officially announce candidacy Jan. 7
By MATT SCHAFER | Dec. 30 at 5:50 PM Dec. 30 at 5:50 PM
The only openly gay member of the Atlanta City Council will face at least one opponent in the Nov. 3 election. Charlie Stadtlander, a former member of the Log Cabin Republicans, will officially declare his candidacy on Jan. 7.
Stadtlander, who is gay, is an elementary school teacher who moved to Atlanta two years ago and quickly involved himself in the city’s political scene. He will oppose lesbian Anne Fauver in the District 6 race. She has held the post encompassing the heavily gay district for two terms.
“Although I’ve been here two years, I moved here after college,” Stadtlander said. “I’ve fallen in love with Atlanta and ...
Good! It’s about time: ACLU Taking Act One to Court Just days before it’s scheduled to take effect, the ACLU files a lawsuit to strike down initiated act 1. That act would ban unmarried couples who live together from adopting or fostering children. The ACLU says it doesn’t matter if you’re single, married, gay, straight or co-habiting, every prospective [...]
Role Of Religion In Presidential Campaign Heads 2008 ‘Top Ten’ List Of Church-State Stories The role of religion in the presidential campaign tops the 2008 “Top Ten” list of top church-state stories, according to the editors of Church & State. The monthly magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is the nation’s only [...]
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