Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance

GLAA Chronology 1971 to Present

2001

December

GLAA calls for School Board to learn DC Human Rights Act 12/17/01

ACT UP DC: Congress blocks DC clean needle exchange, medical marijuana again 12/05/01

D.C. Budget Passes House-Senate Conference
[we win on domestic partnerships, we lose on needle exchange and the Boy Scouts] (The Washington Post) 12/05/01

GLAA calls for clarification of Human Rights Act to include harassment 12/03/01

ACLU/NCA testifies on anti-harassment bill 12/03/01

Text of GLAA/ACLU Proposed Substitute for Bill 14-132 11/27/01

Body Believed to be Missing AOL Executive (The Washington Post) 12/02/01

November

RFA for STD Internet Surveillance Grant violates Mayor's Executive Order 11/30/01

Missing AOL Official's Home Yields Bullet (The Washington Post) 11/30/01

Editorial: A Sad Twist to a Deep Loss (The Washington Post) 11/28/01

Stand Up for Democracy writes to Conference Committee 11/14/01

Whitman-Walker defends needle exchange in letter to House/Senate conferees 11/12/01

Summersgill responds to Simmons on privacy and HIV surveillance (The Washington Blade) 11/09/01

HRC writes House/Senate conferees on DC Appropriations 11/09/01

Senate Approves D.C. Funding Of Domestic-Partners Law
Vote Moves the City Closer to Implementing 1992 Measure (The Washington Post) 11/08/01

Williams Announces Two Appointments (The Washington Post) 11/08/01

Catania congratulates Congress for lifting domestic partnership ban 11/07/01

Mayor appeals to key Senators on domestic partners, needle exchange 11/07/01

Wanda Alston named Special Assistant to Mayor for GLBT Affairs 11/07/01

GLAA renews endorsement of Ingebretsen for Commission on Human Rights 11/05/01

GLAA slams mismanagement and unresponsiveness at HIV/AIDS Administration 11/02/01

Schwartz appeals to Senators on domestic partnership, needle exchange 11/01/01

October

HRC Talking Points on DC Domestic Partnership Program 10/30/01

ACT UP slams chat-room surveillance as "dubious use of taxpayer dollars" 10/29/01

Editorial: Have They Nothing Better to Do? (The Washington Post) 10/30/01

GLAAD's Cathy Renna: "We have met the enemy, and he can't spell." (The Washington Post) 10/27/01

Simmons: Political agenda blocks HIV name reporting (The Washington Blade) 10/26/01

ACLU Action Alert on DC Appropriations 10/25/01

Editorial: Councilman or Senator? (The Washington Post) 10/22/01

The Blue and the Gay
D.C. Officer Links His 2 Communities (The Washington Post) 10/22/01

GLAA Testifies on Proposal for Elected Attorney General for DC 10/17/01

Summersgill asks local United Way CEO for answers on Boy Scouts eligibility 10/04/01

GLAA slams Thorpe, intolerant responses to terrorist attack 10/02/01

September

U.S. House Vote Backs Benefits For Gays
D.C. Workers’ Partners Would Get Coverage (The Washington Post) 09/26/01

Roll-call vote on amendment banning funding for DC domestic partners law ("no" votes are on our side) 09/25/01

Freedom Worth Defending: thoughts on 9/11 09/24/01

D.C. Sex Offender Law Struck Down
Judge Orders Police to Stop Publicizing Information About Released Perpetrators
(The Washington Post) 09/23/01 (This ruling vindicates GLAA, ACLU, and the Public Defender Service on the concerns we raised in 1999 over the equal protection violations in DC's Megan's Law bill. See related articles.)

Editorial: Second-Guessing the District (The Washington Post) 09/11/01

DC Democracy Activists Converge on Congress 09/10/01

Catania appeals to House Appropriations Committee 09/10/01

GLAA refutes the so-called racial divide on HIV privacy concerns (letter in Washington City Paper) 09/06/01

NAACP Task Force makes recommendations on Biased Policing Project RFP 09/05/01

GLAA welcomes Lorri Jean back to Washington 09/05/01

Summersgill asks Vance for action on DCPS policy regarding Boy Scouts 09/05/01

With Vermont in the Lead, Controversy Progresses
Battle Over Same-Sex Unions Moves to Other States (The Washington Post) 09/04/01

Editorial: Pure Discrimination
Florida anti-adoption law is "precisely the sort of unjustified targeting of vulnerable minorities that the Constitution forbids." (The Washington Post) 09/01/01