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  • GLAA Chronology 1971 to Present

    • 2003

    December

  • Blade slams GLAA's realistic approach on marriage 12/19/03
  • D.C. Whistleblower takes HAA to court 12/11/03
  • Howell describes history of DC Human Rights Act and gay community 12/10/03
  • GLAA endorses deed recordation tax bill for tax equity, suggests improvements 12/10/03

    November

  • Rosendall: Let freedom ring on Metro (The Washington Blade) 11/21/03
  • Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20 11/19/03
  • Summersgill testifies on proposed ABC regs, urges removal of Section 905 11/19/03
  • Rosendall gives short history of community-police relations to Amnesty International 11/19/03
  • Bibliography on Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 11/04/03
  • The Campaign to Memorialize Gay Victims of Nazi Persecution
    Presented to the Rainbow History Project by Craig Howell     11/03/03

    October

  • Rep. John Lewis: "At a crossroads on gay unions" 10/25/03
  • Saunders endorsed by GLAA, confirmed by Council as OHR Director 10/17/03
  • Saunders discusses reforms at Office of Human Rights 10/17/03
  • GLAA to Ambrose: Please remove Section 905 of proposed ABC regs 10/10/03

    September

  • Editorial: School vouchers leave gay students behind (The Washington Blade) 09/19/03
  • Gay Veterans Push for Memorial At Congressional Cemetery (The Washington Post) 09/14/03
  • Yardley praises D'Emilio bio of Rustin (The Washington Post) 09/07/03

    August

  • HAA can’t explain record high AIDS incidence (The Washington Blade) 08/29/03
  • Fact Sheet for Anti-TG Violence in DC (compiled by Jessica Xavier) 08/22/03
    Note: Viewing this document requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Transgender Community Alarmed by D.C. Shootings (The Washington Post) 08/22/03
  • For Transgenders, Meaner Streets (The Washington Post) 08/22/03
  • DOMA author Barr opposes Federal Marriage Amendment (op-ed, The Washington Post) 08/21/03
  • An Outpouring of Grief and Anger
    At D.C. Vigil, Slain Transgender Performer Is Mourned, Repression Is Decried     (The Washington Post) 08/20/03
  • D.C. Shooting Investigated As Hate Crime (The Washington Post) 08/18/03
  • When the Archbishop Calls (The Washington Post)
    (a superb op-ed by Colby King on hypocrisy in the Anglican Communion) 08/16/03
  • Transgender Teens, Slain Last Year, Mourned at D.C. Vigil (The Washington Post) 08/13/03
  • City's double dealing on abstinence grant revealed 08/12/03
  • GLAA backs NEA against PFOX discrimination complaint 08/12/03
  • Rosendall speaks at memorial for murdered teens 08/12/03

    July

  • GLAA joins coalition opposing federal vouchers 07/17/03
  • GLAA to Williams: Don't welcome anti-gay bigots 07/26/03
  • Groceries and Gospel
    Assemblies of God, Local Churches Unite to Give Away Food, Spiritual Sustenance in SE     (The Washington Post) 07/26/03
  • Whitman-Walker appeals denial of HIV pharmacy contract (The Washington Blade) 07/25/03
  • Washington Post Weddings Section Prints First Same-Sex Marriage Announcement 07/23/03
  • GLAA to Feinstein: Don't impose vouchers on District 07/22/03
  • Mayor Williams and 10 Councilmembers opposed school vouchers in 1998 07/20/03
  • GLAA Compilation: Where DC Officials Stand on the Issues 07/20/03
  • Website launched to oppose Federal Marriage Amendment 07/16/03
  • Evolution On Gay Marriage? (Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post) 07/14/03
  • GLAA to Chairman Young: please support clean DC Appropriations bill 07/12/03
  • 24th annual wreath laying at Tomb of the Unknowns held on July 9 07/09/03
  • GLAA to Chairman Frelinghuysen: Please oppose social riders to DC Appropriations bill 07/06/03
  • D.C. health care ‘decisions’ bill becomes law (The Washington Blade) 07/04/03
  • GLAA to Council: oppose school vouchers 07/03/03

    June

  • Sodomy ruling affects Kansas "Romeo and Juliet" law (The Washington Post) 06/28/03
  • A Debate on Marriage, And More, Now Looms (Analysis, The Washington Post) 06/27/03
  • Gay Community Hails 'a New Day' (The Washington Post) 06/27/03
  • Supreme Court overturns sodomy laws on due process grounds 06/26/03
  • Supreme Court Sodomy Decision Implicates Federal Sodomy Statute & "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (SLDN) 06/26/03
  • Supreme Court opinion in Lawrence v. Texas 06/26/03
  • IRS supervisor suspended for anti-gay job bias (The Washington Post) 06/26/03
  • GLAA celebrates as new health care decisions law takes effect 06/25/03
  • GLAA endorses Saunders as Director of Office of Human Rights 06/24/03
  • GLAA cites progress, supports new contract for Chief Ramsey 06/23/03
  • Catania warns HAA's Lewis against retaliation (The Washington Blade) 06/20/03
  • GLAA to Blade: Dispute with Office of the Corporation Counsel was resolved 06/20/03
  • Thinking of Getting Married in Canada?
    Joint Advisory From Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, National Center for Lesbian Rights, ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project, and Freedom to Marry     06/13/03
  • GLAA to Current: Housing discrimination against students is illegal 06/11/03

    May

  • GLAA supports tax relief for SMYAL 05/22/03
  • HIV/AIDS Director Defends Leadership Before D.C. Council (The Washington Post) 05/16/03
  • Summersgill details negligence, unresponsiveness at HIV/AIDS Administration 05/15/03
  • GLAA to conduct 24th Annual Wreath Laying May 26 at Tomb of the Unknowns 05/14/03
  • Richard Cohen: Intolerance Swaddled in Faith (The Washington Post) 05/01/03

    April

  • GLAA replies to DCBCI on abstinence-only education grants 04/30/03
  • Editorial: An Inclusive Man (The Washington Post) 04/29/03
  • Minister urges GLAA to reconsider opposition to abstinence-only grant 04/28/03
  • Awards presented at GLAA 32nd Anniversary Reception 04/15/03
  • DC Council honors GLAA's 32nd anniversary 04/15/03
  • Congressional Record tribute to GLAA by Congresswoman Norton 04/15/03
  • Rosendall presents Distinguished Service Award to Councilmember Kathy Patterson 04/15/03
  • Kameny presents Distinguished Service Award to Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, MPD 04/15/03
  • Neff presents Distinguished Service Award to Karen Armagost 04/15/03
  • Brick presents Distinguished Service Award to Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC 04/15/03
  • Davis presents Distinguished Service Award to Bob Summersgill 04/15/03
  • Remarks by Bob Summersgill accepting GLAA Award 04/15/03
  • Kameny offers founders toast on GLAA 32nd anniversary 04/15/03
  • GLAA testifies on Office of Human Rights budget 04/11/03
  • Wilburn testifies on OHR Budget 04/11/03
  • Local historians recall pivotal 1973 gay sit-in
    Protest sparked new era of police cooperation     (The Washington Blade) 04/04/03
  • They Fought the Law
    A History of Gays and Cops in D.C.     (Metro Weekly) 04/03/03
    [Craig Howell comments about the Metro Weekly story: "Chapman's a little confused on the current status of MPD training. GLAA members as such haven't been doing such training for years. It's been Karen Pettapiece in recent years, and she's still doing it for new hires and transfers. Our unhappiness is with the Department's decision to end her training with the veteran officers."]
  • Bookseller's Success Speaks Volumes
    Lambda Rising Owner Helped Bring Gay Literature Out of the Closet     (The Washington Post) 04/02/03
  • US Attorney for the District of Columbia:
    Criminal Complaint against Michael Wayne Martin in the Washington Teachers Union case     04/02/03

    March

  • Linda Kaufman: About Fairness and My Family (op-ed, The Washington Post) 03/30/03
  • Maternal Instinct
    The Family Values of PFLAG's Sheron Rosen     (Metro Weekly) 03/30/03
  • Brick reports on oral arguments in Lawrence v Texas 03/26/03
  • Editorial: No Gays Except . . . (The Washington Post) 03/26/03
  • History of community-police relations discussed at Rainbow History Project panel 03/25/03
  • Invitation to GLAA 32nd Anniversary Reception 03/21/03
  • Airports Authority responds to GLAA on donating confiscated material 03/10/03
  • GLAA sees progress, challenges at Office of Human Rights 03/08/03
  • Wilburn testifies for Office of Human Rights 03/08/03

    February

  • GLAA to Council: Oppose reintroduction of bill to create Office of GLBT Affairs 02/27/03
  • GLAA Announces 2003 Distinguished Service Awards 02/26/03
  • Ramsey Grilled On 911 Failures (The Washington Post) 02/26/03
  • National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Moves to Pennsylvania Avenue 02/24/03
  • GLAA testifies on police accountability, training 02/24/03
  • GLAA endorses efforts of DC Primary Care Association 02/24/03
  • A Man Like Everybody Else (The Hartford Courant) 02/23/03
  • Four Operators Weren't Taking Calls During Fire
    Ramsey Vows to Find Out Reason     (The Washington Post) 02/22/03
  • GLAA opposes abstinence-only education grant 02/17/03
  • SERVING WITH HONOR 02/15/03
  • Resources scarce for D.C. partner abuse victims
    Va., D.C. laws illustrate disparities in treatment     (The Washington Blade) 02/14/03
  • Paper Anniversary
    After Pronouncing Georgie and Angie Man and Wife, the State of Maryland Found Out Otherwise. Now It's Put Their Marriage Asunder.     (The Washington Post) 02/14/03
  • Davis responds to Simmons on HIV surveillance, racism (Metro Weekly) 02/13/03
  • GLAA asks Airports Authority not to donate confiscated material to BSA 02/12/03
  • Deacon Maccubbin saves NY's Oscar Wilde Bookshop (The Washington Blade) 02/07/03
  • UHU's Ron Simmons renews his smears against GLAA, ACT UP (Interview, Metro Weekly) 02/06/03

    January

  • Judge Declines To Sentence 3 Catholic Gay Activists (The Washington Post) 01/31/03
  • Mayor orders review of D.C. AIDS office finances
    Williams acts after officials linked to teacher union scandal     (The Washington Blade) 01/31/03
  • Kristina Campbell: Missed Connections (Metro Weekly) 01/30/03
  • GLAA joins groups calling for deletion of unnecessary proposed Alcohol regs 01/25/03
  • DC Inspector General to audit HIV/AIDS Administration (The Washington Post) 01/24/03
  • "The 'Invisible Man':
    Why Bayard Rustin is the unknown hero of the civil rights movement"     (Andrew Sullivan, Time Magazine) 01/20/03
  • What’s in a Word?
    Holding the Lexical Line at the Washington Times     (Metro Weekly) 01/16/03
  • Marc Fisher: It Took a Mugging And Police Apathy To Make it 'Home' (The Washington Post) 01/16/03
  • Irate citizens, council members hit Ramsey (The Washington Times) 01/16/03
  • Expansion approved for MPD Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit 01/14/03
  • Where DC officials stand on due-process amendment to Megan's Law 01/10/03
  • GLAA addresses refusal by police districts to provide complaint forms on request; Evans, MPD respond 01/09/03
  • Aravosis launches SafeStreetsDC.com web campaign against police inaction 01/09/03
  • Washington Times editor rejects "gay" as "Orwellian" 01/08/03
  • Washington Times prints GLAA response on pedophilia, with changes 01/08/03
  • Kameny recounts his days of combat in WWII (HRC Documenting Courage) 1/6/03
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