Trump era a rupture in American history
(Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) I have been an activist and advocate for the trans community for the past 15 years, but laboring under an incorrect assumption. That assumption is that...
View Article8 years of progress
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) February 2007: Obama declares presidential campaign June 2008: Obama issues Pride letter, confirming support for ENDA, hate crimes law, DADT repeal June 2008:...
View ArticleOn the road to full equality
(Washington Blade photo by Michael Key) Jan. 31 was a rainbow day for LGBT equality. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) welcomed transgender identifying boys into the Cub and Boy Scouts and the Trump...
View ArticleWill GOP deliver LGBT workplace protections?
House Speaker Paul Ryan voted for ENDA in 2007. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) Since 1994, lobbyists in Washington have unsuccessfully tried to pass ENDA, a bill protecting at first...
View Article10 years later, firestorm over gay-only ENDA vote still informs movement
Protesters demonstrate against the Human Rights Campaign in 2007 over support for a gay-only ENDA.(Washington Blade file photo by Henry Linser) Ten years ago, a firestorm ignited in the LGBT community...
View ArticleLooking back: 50 years of the Blade
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) in the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee in 2013. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) Six years...
View ArticleThe sad, closeted hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Oct. 12, 2020 for the nomination to the Supreme Court of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. (Photo by Erin...
View ArticleA moderate Republican is still a Republican
Sen. Mitt Romney (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) There’s a lot of talk about unity these days. Joe Biden ran on a pledge to unify the country after four years of Donald Trump exploiting...
View ArticleOpinion | This gay conservative wants Equality Act to pass now
Limiting the heavy hand of government in the lives of everyday Americans naturally results in more personal freedom. To be sure, elected leaders that govern closest to their constituents are typically...
View ArticleOrrin Hatch dies at 88
Former Republican U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, who spent over 40 years representing the state of Utah, died on Saturday at the age of 88. The Orrin G. Hatch Foundation announced that he passed away at 5:30...
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