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By Tim Craig, The Washington Post
March 18, 2013
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District politicians who flock to the city’s annual Capital pride parade better wear comfortable shoes.

The annual event is expanding north this year to much of 14th Street NW, which organizers say is a nod to area’s rapid growth and the dispersal of the city’s gay community away from Dupont Circle.

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By Cheryl K. Chumley, The Washington Times
February 15, 2013
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Fully 10 percent of Washington, D.C., respondents in a Gallup poll identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, making the nation’s capital the largest population for LGBTs in America.

“The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ranges from 1.7 percent in North Dakota to 5.1 percent in Hawaii and 10 percent in the District of Columbia,” Gary Gates and Frank Newport wrote, in Gallup’s latest survey.

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By Fagabond, Huffington Post Gay Voices
February 14, 2013
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For most of the American workforce, the coming weekend includes an extra day. Thank you, President Washington, et al.

Now, it may be tempting to do something like organize your attic, delve into your e-reader or make plans for that canning business you dream of starting.

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By Associated Press
February 3, 2013
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 District of Columbia officials are announcing a partnership between prosecutors, the mayor's office and the gay, lesbian and transgender community.

The goal of the partnership, announced Saturday by Mayor Vincent Gray, is to seek stronger punishments for people convicted in bias- or hate crimes.

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By Joshua Hall, NewNowNext
January 23, 2013
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Along with about 800,000 other people, I found myself in Washington DC this past weekend. Like most, I came to see Michelle’s bangs in person, but during my trip I found five bars that made me proud to be an American!

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By Jonathan O’Connell, The Washington Post
January 11, 2013
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Bayard Rustin, an African American scholar from eastern Pennsylvania, was on the front lines of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He was a key organizer of bus segregation demonstrations in the South, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the March on Washington, where he scheduled the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech and drilled police officers on techniques of nonviolent crowd control.

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By Heather Rushworth, ExecDigital
November 15, 2012
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Washington D.C. thrives as a hub of world power, vibrant cultural infusion and cutting-edge dialogue about the world’s most vital problems and solutions. The nation, and globe’s best and brightest all flock to the capitol to make things happen. For many people, tapping into D.C.’s network is their shot at changing the world, as few cities offer the immense network of genius movers and shakers like America’s most official city.

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By Steve Weinstein, The Village Voice
June 20, 2012
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Way back in 1934, Paul Cadmus's painting "The Fleet's In!" displayed a shockingly honest panorama of oversexed sailors on leave. When the Corcoran Gallery, one of the most prominent museums in Washington, D.C., removed the painting, the scandal made the young gay artist's reputation. In 1990, a Cincinnati museum was put on the docket for showing a sexually charged photograph by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. When the Corcoran Gallery canceled the whole show, it caused an outcry that reached the halls of Congress and slipped in the notorious "no promo homo" clause to manage government-funded exhibits.

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