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Posted by Human Rights Campaign to YouTube: Tuesday, March 9th marks the first day that same-sex couples in the District of Columbia were able to marry. The Human Rights Campaign is hosted three ceremonies at our DC headquarters building. Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend Officiant: Rev. David K. North, Pastor of Holy Redeemer of Metropolitan Community Churches, College Park, MD About the Couple: Angelisa and Sinjoyla, both African-American women who reside in Ward 8 of the District, were the first in line to register for a marriage license, and will be the first ...

News release from the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce: South Beach Location at 11th & Washington To Roll Out The Welcome Mat For Tourists and Locals MIAMI BEACH – March 9, 2010 – As the 600-member strong Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (MDGLCC) packs up its rainbow flag in preparation for relocating offices to the first floor north of historic Old City Hall in Miami Beach, plans are being finalized to launch one of the country’s first gay Chamber-sponsored LGBT Visitor Centers. The new LGBT Visitor Center inside the MDGLCC’s new headquarters will ...

Associated Press TALLAHASSEE -- Movie and TV productions with gay characters could be ineligible for a tax credit being considered by the Florida House. State law grants tax credits for ``family friendly'' productions -- with no smoking, sex, nudity or bad language. The proposal by Republican Rep. Stephen Precourt of Orlando would increase the credit and expand the field of disqualified productions as those that include any ``exhibit or implied act'' of nontraditional family values and gratuitous violence. Precourt says he's not targeting the gay community but that shows with gay ...

By JESSICA GRESKO,  Associated Press WASHINGTON -- It's a day of wedding bells for some gay couples in Washington. Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licenses and tie the knot in the city. Some couples planned quick ceremonies at a church or gay rights group's office while others said they'll wait and have more elaborate celebrations. About 150 couples could pick up their marriage licenses beginning at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Those are the couples that applied on the first day the licenses were made available. Many of them stood in line for four or more hours ...

Mikey Verdugo (Mikey V), the cop fired by Hollywood Police and booted off TV’s Design Star after we learned he made a 15-minute porn video back in 1996, has just posed for the NOH8 Campaign, along with his boyfriend, Pembroke Pines police officer Mike Silver, and his brother, Chris Verdugo, an events producer now living in Los Angeles. From the NOH8 website: On November 4, 2008 Proposition 8 passed in California, amending the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The defeat provoked a groundswell of initiative within the GLBT community at a grassroots level, with many new ...

In The Advocate: Sean Hayes: I Am Who I Am Step back, Jack: The man who played TV’s iconic and over-the-top sidekick steps out of the shadow of his famous character to speak for the first time about living openly, his contribution to the gay movement, and his much-anticipated Broadway debut. Click here to read the article.

A California state senator with a strong anti-gay voting record came out today as gay on a radio talk show – after being arrested for DUI driving away from a gay bar, reports the Victory Fund: California State Sen. Roy Ashburn, a conservative Republican with a solidly anti-gay voting record, came out as gay today on a Bakersfield radio station talk show.  Ashburn’s sexual orientation had been the talk of Sacramento since the legislator was arrested for drunk driving after leaving a gay bar in Sacramento last week. “I am gay.  Those are the words that have been so difficult for me ...

BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com About a dozen men  – far fewer than the 70 hoped for – stood outside Opium Group’s Mansion nightclub on Washington Avenue Sunday night to protest DJ Peter Rauhofer’s performance during Winter Party Festival. The protesters, led by Care Resource Executive Director Rick Siclari, told Mansion patrons that for a second consecutive year Rauhofer competed for gay tourist dollars by counterprogramming against a Winter Party event that raises money for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and gay nonprofits throughout South Florida. For the past ...

The Winter Party Beach Party took place on Sunday on Miami Beach and was of the biggest gay events of the year. Thousands gathered on a huge dance floor on the beach on 12th Street. Click here for more photos. LILLY ECHEVERRIA / MIAMI HERALD STAFF BY PARADISE AFSHAR, pafshar@MiamiHerald.com Lizzz Kritzer and her girlfriend, Danielle Lise Desrochers, are not typical snowbirds. Sure, they migrate from the South Hamptons to Miami Beach once a year to warm up. But for the past two years they have come with a mission: to party in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ...

An e-mail today from Safe Schools South Florida: Dear SSSF Supporters and Friends, Safe Schools South Florida, along with other fine South Florida LGBT organizations, receives a grant from the Dade Community Foundation LGBT Fund, funded in part from Winter Party events. This grant helps SSSF bring together hundreds of LGBTQ students and their Gay/Straight Alliance allies each year for youth empowerment/leadership conferences; trains dozens of students to powerfully speak out about their lives; and helps train hundreds of teachers, counselors and administrators on issues ...