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Equality March staffers resign

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:21 +0000

The co-directors of the National Equality March have resigned, citing differences about the organizations’s direction.

Kip Williams and Robin McGehee resigned for a mix of reasons, they said in(...)

Equality March: Cleve Jones

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:11 +0000

Video from Cleve Jones’ speech at the pre-March press conference. Not included here: the press room singing “Happy Birthday” to Cleve – it was his 55th!

Withers: Why no love for the local activist?

James Withers — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:23:14 +0000

I don’t mean to pile on Cleve Jones, the organizer for the National Equality March, but there are times when he talks and its easy to wonder if he likes Mary Jane a bit too much. In a recent

Speakers announced for National Equality March

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:19:57 +0000

(Washington, DC) Longtime gay activist David Mixner, who in May called for a national march on Washington “to empower our young and to show the nation that anything less than full freedom is(...)

RachelWatch: Feel the Incitement

Ali Davis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:04:09 +0000

The Reponsibility Rebellion

Rachel started us off with the news that on Thursday Speaker of the House Nancy Peolsi asked for help in turning the nasty, violent political rhetoric back down to(...)

At 54, Cleve Jones is ready for his comeback

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:00:43 +0000

Now 54 and the closest the gay rights movement has to a living legend, the former protege to a political martyr and creator of the AIDS Memorial Quilt is busily planning his next act - a march on the nation's capital that he hopes will usher in the final era in his community's struggle for acceptance.

Stonewall: Forty years later

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:23:31 +0000

It was 1969, on the hottest June night in history. The police raided one of the only places in New York City where same-sex couples could dance together, a crappy Mafia club with watered-down booze and a sideline in blackmail. They didn't expect resistance.

Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:09:52 +0000

An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk announced plans Sunday for a march on Washington this fall to demand that Congress establish equality and marriage rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.