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“All are welcome to use our restroom regardless of gender identity or expression, political ideology, or shoe size,” U.S. Rep. Emily Randall said.
Joe McDermott, a Seattle Democrat, was appointed to the Washington state senate on October 15, making him that body's second openly gay member.
The sentence was 12 months less than that requested by prosecutors, but the man will also serve 36 months of supervised release.
She left a voicemail from her cell phone number at the judge’s chambers, authorities say.
And then there were three. The former U.S. senator and governor of Rhode Island today announced he's ending his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Here are the candidates running for Congress and judicial office on November 5.
Republican control of Congress is on the line Tuesday in an election colored by voters' dismay over the Iraq war and misbehavior in Washington. At stake in the midterm election were all 435 House of Representatives seats, 33 in the Senate, 36 governor's offices, and ballot measures on same-sex marriage.
The law involves children who are housed at host homes.
In November, Washington could elect an out lieutenant governor, Kansas its first trans state legislator, and Michigan its first out member of Congress.
The disgraced Grey's Anatomy actor said Democrats are "not doing enough" for the Black community.
"Yes, it will be in the platform," the out gay congressman from Massachusetts told The Advocate.
The antigay Virginia marriage amendment may have passed with 57% of the vote in 2006, but it also prodded thousands of LGBT activists to action, laying the groundwork for the presidential election in 2008.
Can the momentum built by the House sit-in travel outside of Washington?
“Republicans love to claim how they support our troops in one breath, just to turn around and vote to discriminate against them with the next,” said Rep. Mark Pocan, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.
Democrats voted to make the California congressman the ranking member on the Republican-led investigative committee.
Five new congressmen joined 126 of their colleagues on Friday to support legislation calling for the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on openly gay service personnel.
The Democratic congresswoman from Delaware told an audience at Crooked Con, "You can’t build a diverse working class coalition if people don’t feel like you like them."
