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 washingtonblade.com • vol. 41, issue 41 • october 8, 2010 • Still sharp after 40 years
work therunway
Gay fashion designer
Ra’Mon-Lawrence Coleman
prepares collection forNoVa Fashion Week.
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Pink, ‘Modern Family’among honoreesat this weekend’sHRC National Dinner.
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localnews
Baltimore lesbian couplesays they were kickedout of Ravens gameafter kissing in public.
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D.C. gays plan Pa. trip to help champion of ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
By CHRIS JOHNSONcjohnson@washblade.com
Local LGBT Democratic activists are mak-ing plans to travel to Pennsylvania to help the champion of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal in the U.S. House in a challenging re-election campaign.The National Stonewall Democrats and D.C.’s Gertrude Stein Democratic Club are collaborating in an effort dubbed “Stein Storm” to bring local supporters of Rep. Pat-rick Murphy (D-Pa.) to his district to help with his campaign.The organizations plan to bus Murphy sup-porters from D.C. to Pennsylvania’s 8th con-gressional district on the weekends of Oct. 15 and Oct. 22.Linsey Pecikonis, a Stonewall spokesper-son, said Murphy’s leadership on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal makes him one of the “stron-gest heroes here in the LGBT community.”“Right now when we’re struggling as a community to have our voice represented in Congress, we can’t lose our heroes,” she said. “And so, the LGBT community needs to come out and show support for our strongest allies and Patrick Murphy is one of those.”Murphy has been praised by LGBT advo-cacy groups for taking the lead in repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the House.An Iraq war veteran, Murphy assumed sponsorship last year of legislation that would repeal the statute when the bill had about 150 co-sponsors and gradually built support for the measure.In May, Murphy introduced an amend-ment to major defense budget legislation that
Locals rally around MurphySpotlight on bullying after rash of teen suicides
Experts say anti-gay harassmentwidespread in D.C. schools
 
By LOU CHIBBARO JR.lchibbaro@washblade.com
The death by suicide of four gay male teenagers within a four-week period last month has triggered in-ternational media coverage of the topic of anti-gay bul-lying and harassment and prompted renewed calls for Congress to pass anti-bullying legislation.Much of the media attention focused on the Sept. 22 death of 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi, who leaped off the George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey.University officials said Clementi took his own life days after discovering his roommate planted a video camera in his dorm room that captured Clementi and a male visitor “making out” during an apparent sexual encounter and then broadcast the video online.New Jersey authorities have charged the roommate, Dharun Ravi, and one of his friends, Molly Wei, with criminal invasion of privacy, an offense that carries a possible five-year prison sentence.A New Jersey prosecutor said Ravi, who shared the dorm room with Clementi, left his webcam-equipped laptop computer in the room with the intention of spying on Clementi, who informed him he planned to bring a visitor into the room. Ravi agreed to allow Clementi to use the room in private to host his guest.Prosecutors said Ravi went to Wei’s nearby dorm room and used another laptop he owns to remotely turn on the webcam while Clementi and his male guest were
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Kim Zolciak talks about her bi relationship,premiere of ‘Housewives of Atlanta’.
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Last weekend’s AIDS Walk featured Lynda Carter andhundreds of participants. PHOTOS
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The recent suicides of four gay teens (from left)
Ashler Brown, Seth Walsh, Billy Lucas
 and
Tyler Clementi,
have revived calls for federal legislation addressing anti-gay bullying.
 
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